{"id":26171,"date":"2017-12-12T20:27:07","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T20:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tresculturas.org\/tresculturas\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=26171"},"modified":"2017-12-12T20:27:07","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T20:27:07","slug":"petros-markaris-presenta-offshore-sevilla-granada","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/tresculturas.org\/en\/actividad\/petros-markaris-presenta-offshore-sevilla-granada\/","title":{"rendered":"Petros M\u00e1rkaris presents 'Offshore' in Seville and Granada"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Fundaci\u00f3n 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 Garc\u00eda Lorca, are organising the presentation of the book Offshore<\/em> (Tusquets) by Petros M\u00e1rkaris, on 19 October at 19:30 in Seville and on 20 October at 20:00 in Granada.<\/p>\n

The Greek writer Petros M\u00e1rkaris, 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, Jes\u00fas 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, Offshore<\/em>recently published in Spain by Tusquets.<\/p>\n

This presentation is part of the activities organised to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Fatima Mernissi Library.<\/p>\n

About the author<\/strong><\/p>\n

Petros M\u00e1rkaris (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\u00a0The gaze of Ulysses<\/em> 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 Istanbul<\/em>or the Tetralogy of the Crisis composed by Bread, Education, Freedom, Bread, Education, Water on the brink, Final liquidation, Bread, Education, Freedom<\/em> y This is as far as we have come<\/em>.<\/p>\n

He has also published The sword of Damocles<\/em>on the Greek crisis, and the volume of short stories The death of Ulysses<\/em>. His latest novel published in Spain, which we will be presenting at the Fundaci\u00f3n Tres Culturas, is entitled Offshore<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Seville. <\/strong>Simultaneous translation from English into Spanish will be provided. Free admission with prior registration at\u00a0this link<\/a>.
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Grenada<\/strong>. Consecutive translation from Greek into Spanish will be provided. Free admission until full capacity is reached.<\/p>\n

Book sale and book signing after the talk.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Photography: \u00a9 Iv\u00e1n Gim\u00e9nez.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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