Petros Markaris

Petros 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. The son of an Armenian entrepreneur and a Greek mother, he went to school at the St. George's Austrian High School in Istanbul and studied after his Abitur for some years in Vienna and in Stuttgart. 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. Markaris speaks and writes in Greek, Turkish and German. Today he lives in Athens. Before he began to write he studied national economy. Later he wrote...