In the summer Kazantzakis begins a daily collaboration with Kimon Friar, who is translating the Odyssey into English.
In December he attends the premiere of Sodom and Gomorrah in Mannheim, Germany, after which he enters hospital at Freiburg im Breisgau for treatment. His disease is diagnosed as being lymphatic leukemia.
The young publisher Yannis Goudelis undertakes to bring out Kazantzakis collected works in Athens.