Petros Markaris

Petros Markaris was born in Istanbul in 1937. Having studied economics, he made his literary debut in Greece in 1965 with a theatrical work, The Tale of Ali Retzo. This was followed by several other plays and film scripts. Markaris recently published a translation of Goethe’s Faust to critical acclaim.

Markaris’s previously published works:

Novels
Che Committed Suicide, Athens, Gavrielidis, 2003
Night Bulletin, Athens, Gavrielidis, 2000
Defence Zone, Athens, Gavrielidis, 1998
Anatomy of a Crime, Athens, Livanis, 1994
The Diary of an Eternity, Athens, Gavrielidis

Plays
The History of Ali Retzo, Athens, Gavrielidis, 1999
The Epic of King Ubu (from the work of Alfred Jarry)
The Guests
Like Horses
Lucrezia Borgia

Screenplay
Eternity and a Day, Athens, Kastaniotis, 1998

Essays
Brecht and Dialectic Speech, Athens, Kastaniotis, 1983