The Fundación Tres Culturas and the programme Granada Ciudad de Literatura Unesco, in the framework of the Festival Granada Noir and in collaboration with the Centro Federico García Lorca, are organising the presentation of the book Offshore (Tusquets) by Petros Márkaris, on 19 October at 19:30 in Seville and on 20 October at 20:00 in Granada.
The Greek writer Petros Márkaris, author of the famous saga of Inspector Kostas Jaritos, will talk with the journalist Alejandro Luque in Seville and with the director of Granada Noir, Jesús Lens, in Granada, about the current situation in his country after several years of harsh adjustments, will offer some keys to the evolution of the current crime novel and will offer reflections on the major problems that beset the Mediterranean area, all under the pretext of presenting his latest novel, Offshorerecently published in Spain by Tusquets.
This presentation is part of the activities organised to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Fatima Mernissi Library.
About the author
Petros Márkaris (Istanbul, 1937) studied economics in Vienna and Stuttgart, and later moved to Athens, where he lives. After working as a scriptwriter on films such as The gaze of Ulysses by Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos, he made his name as a writer with the series of crime novels starring Athenian Commissar Kostas Jaritos, with titles such as Nightly News, Closed Defence, Perfect Suicide, The Majority Shareholder, Death in Istanbulor the Tetralogy of the Crisis composed by Bread, Education, Freedom, Bread, Education, Water on the brink, Final liquidation, Bread, Education, Freedom y This is as far as we have come.
He has also published The sword of Damocleson the Greek crisis, and the volume of short stories The death of Ulysses. His latest novel published in Spain, which we will be presenting at the Fundación Tres Culturas, is entitled Offshore.
Seville. Simultaneous translation from English into Spanish will be provided. Free admission with prior registration at this link.
Grenada. Consecutive translation from Greek into Spanish will be provided. Free admission until full capacity is reached.
Book sale and book signing after the talk.
Photography: © Iván Giménez.
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