Person
Petros Markaris
Writing
- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- Jan 1, 1937
- From
- Istanbul, Turkey
Novelist, playwright, screenwriter and translator, Petros Markaris was born in Istanbul, studied economics and since 1976 has been working as a freelance writer. His detective novels ("Night Bulletin", "Defense Zone", "Che Killed himself", "Major Shareholder", "Old, very old", "Overdue Loans") are published in fourteen languages and his hero, the policeman Haritos , is one of the most popular detective heroes in Europe. He collaborated with Theodoros Angelopoulos in many of his film scripts. He has also translated into Greek the works of Brecht, Wedekind, Schnitzler. His latest translation is the two parts of Goethe's Faust. (Source: Wikipedia)
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Credits
Eternity and a Day
Days of '36
Murder at Agora
Patision blues, el mirall de la crisi grega
Lovers Beyond Time
The Dust of Time
Watch Out! Red Light
The Weeping Meadow
The Suspended Step of the Stork
Alexander the Great
Waiting for the Clouds
The Bleeding Statues
Ulysses' Gaze
Istanbul Story
Ανατομία ενός εγκλήματος
Nykterino deltio