Petros Markaris
Turkish-Greek writer of Armenian ancestry · Turkey · On the map · Writers · Born 1937 · age 89
Pétros Márkaris is a Greek crime fiction writer. He is known for his detective novels starring the grumpy Athenian police investigator Costas Haritos.
Petros Markaris is read about 120 times a day, in 18 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 6 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 104 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A life in dates
2014Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of GermanyAward2013Goethe MedalAwardPrix du Polar EuropéenAward1937Born1 January 1937
People around Petros
Close ties
Theo Angelopoulos Directed Days of 36 and Days of '36- Foivi Oikonomopoulou Produced Alexander the Great (1980)
Sabahattin Ali Influenced Petros
Tonino Guerra Also in The Suspended Step of the Stork (1991)
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar Influenced Petros
Bruno Ganz Petros wrote Eternity and a Day (1999)
Yeşim Ustaoğlu Directed Waiting for the Clouds (2003)
Yannis Smaragdis Petros wrote Days of 36 (1972)
Thanasis Valtinós Also in Days of '36 (1972)
Eva Kotamanidou Also in Alexander the Great (1980)- Amedeo Pagani Produced Eternity and a Day (1998)
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About this person
Country
Turkey
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1937 · age 89
