Petros Markaris
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Petros Markaris | |
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Born | Istanbul, Turkey | 1 January 1937
Occupation | Author |
Nationality | Greek-Armenian |
Genre | Mystery fiction |
Notable works | Costas Haritos series |
Pétros Márkaris (Greek: Πέτρος Μάρκαρης; born 1 January 1937 in Istanbul) is a Greek writer of detective novels starring the grumpy Athenian police investigator Costas Haritos.
Biography
The son of an Armenian entrepreneur and a Greek mother, he was born as Bedros Markarian in Istanbul.[1] He attended the St. George's Austrian High School in Istanbul and studied economics after his Abitur for some years in Vienna and in Stuttgart. The family moved to Athens in 1954, but Markaris did not settle permanently there until 1964. That year over 15,000 Greeks (Greek passport holders) were expelled from Istanbul and their properties were confiscated, a major blow for the city's millenarian Greek community. Because of his father, he belonged to the Armenian minority for many years and did not have any citizenship; he became a Greek citizen shortly after 1974, together with the rest of the Armenian minority in Greece.[2] Markaris speaks and writes in Greek, Turkish and German. Today he lives in Athens.
Literary works
Markaris wrote several plays and cooperated with
The Costas Haritos series
The Costas Haritos series of books (twelve novels and one collection of short stories, as of 2019) are very popular in several European countries such as
The first three books of the series have seen U.K. editions in English as well, under the titles (all straightforward translations from the Greek titles): "Late-Night News" ("Deadline in Athens" in the U.S.), "Zone Defence" and "
Other work
In addition to the Inspector Haritos novels, Markaris has written a non-fiction work entitled "Η Αθήνα της Μιας Διαδρομής" (literally "The Athens of a Single Route"). It is a description and recent history of Athens in the environs of the Electric Train (Piraeus to Kifissia - forerunner of the Metro). In the prologue, Markaris says that the book was originally published in German, and he had no intention of publishing it in Greek, feeling that what would interest foreigners would not be of interest to Greeks. However, his publisher convinced him to reconsider, and the book was published in 2013.[4]
Awards
In August 2013, Markaris was awarded the prestigious Goethe Medal for his "distinguished contribution to the German language and international cultural relations".[5]
Selected bibliography
- Νυχτερινό Δελτίο ("Night Bulletin") (1995)
- Άμυνα Ζώνης ("Zone Defence") (1998)
- Ο Τσε αυτοκτόνησε ("Che Committed Suicide") (2003)
- Αθήνα, Πρωτεύουσα των Βαλκανίων ("Athens, Capital of the Balkans", short story collection) (2005)
- Βασικός Μέτοχος ("Main Shareholder") (2006)
- Παλιά, πολύ παλιά ("Long, long ago") (2008)
- Ελληνικά Εγκλήματα 3 ("Greek Crimes 3", short story collection) (2009)
- Ληξιπρόθεσμα Δάνεια ("Overdue Loans", Judgment Trilogy 1) (2010)
- Περαίωση ("Thinning", Judgment Trilogy 2) (2011)
- Ψωμί, Παιδεία, Ελευθερία, ("Bread, Education, and Liberty", Judgment Trilogy 3) (2012)
- Τίτλοι Τέλους ("End Titles", Judgment Trilogy, Epilogue) (2014)
- Τριημερία ("Three days", short story collection) (2015)
- Offshore (2016)
- Σεμινάρια Φονικής Γραφής ("Writing Seminars") (2018)
- Η εποχή της υποκρισίας ("The Age of Hypocrisy") (2019)
- Ο φόνος είναι χρήμα ("Murder is Money") (2020)
- Η τέχνη του τρόμου ("The Art of Horror") (2021)
References
- ISBN 978-1-4742-1654-8.
- ^ Petros Markaris, Κατ΄ εξακολούθηση, Εκδ. Πατάκη 2006, p. 48.
- ^ "Petros Markaris's novel "Bread, Education, Freedom" published in Persian". Tehran Times. 14 April 2023. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
- ISBN 978-9603369820
- ^ "Prestigious Goethe medal for author Petros Markaris". http://www.enetenglish.gr/?i=news.en.article&id=1428 accessed 30 August 2013 Archived 2013-12-08 at the Wayback Machine