Petros Markaris

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 Goethes Faust Source Wikipedia