Petros Markaris

Known for WritingBorn 1937-01-01 (age 89)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)Read more

Movies & web series

The Bleeding Statues

Ανατομία ενός εγκλήματος

Eternity and a Day

The Weeping Meadow

Ulysses' Gaze

The Suspended Step of the Stork

Alexander the Great

The Dust of Time

Waiting for the Clouds

Days of '36

Lovers Beyond Time

Watch Out! Red Light

Istanbul Story

Patision blues, el mirall de la crisi grega

Murder at Agora

Nykterino deltio