The last novel of the  universally-celebrated Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis is set to be published for the first time — more than 60 years after his death — by the Athens-based publishing house Dioptra.

The unpublished novel, titled “Aniforos” (“Uphill”, in free translation) was Kazantzakis’s swan song, written right after his world-famous masterpiece “Zorba the Greek” (1946).

Kazantzakis wrote “Aniforos” around the time that he departed for the UK on what was meant to be his last journey.

The manuscript had been kept at the Kazantzakis museum, in the author’s home village of Mirtia, just outside Heraklion, Crete, since its rediscovery.