Petros Markaris

89, from Istanbul, Turkey

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Biography

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.

Timeline

2016Aged 79

  • Poster for Istanbul Story

    Story Supervisor

2013Aged 76

  • Poster for Patision blues, el mirall de la crisi grega

    Self

2008Aged 71

  • Poster for The Dust of Time

    Writer

2007Aged 70

2004Aged 67

  • Poster for The Weeping Meadow

    Writer

2003Aged 66

  • Poster for Waiting for the Clouds

    Writer

  • Poster for Watch Out! Red Light

    Writer

1998Aged 61

  • Poster for Eternity and a Day

    Screenplay

1995Aged 58

  • Poster for Ulysses' Gaze

    Co-Writer

1991Aged 54

  • Poster for The Suspended Step of the Stork

    Writer

1990Aged 53

  • Poster for Lovers Beyond Time

    Writer

1982Aged 45

  • Poster for The Bleeding Statues

    Writer

1980Aged 43

  • Poster for Alexander the Great

    Writer

1972Aged 35

  • Poster for Days of '36

    Murdered Trade Unionist