Christos Markogiannakis (Greek: Χρήστος Μαρκογιαννάκης) (born 28 January 1980) is a Greek novelist and criminartist, based in Paris, France. His work includes crime fiction and non-fiction. His books are published in Greek, French, English and German. He is a member of the Crime Writers’ Association.[1]
Career
Christos Markogiannakis studied Law and Criminology in Greece and France. He worked as a criminal lawyer in Crete and currently lives in Paris.[2]
He is the creator of the term Criminart, a theoretical mix of art and crime, focusing on the representation of murder in works of art and on murder as a form of art, according to the disciplines of Thomas De Quincey.
His criminartistic book Scènes de Crime au Louvre / The Louvre Murder Club (Le Passage Editions, 2017), where he analyses paintings, sculptures and ancient Greek amphorae in the Louvre Museum in Paris, was awarded the 2017 French Prize for Literary Essay (Prix National du Document Littéraire). The book was welcomed by the Press for its original point of view.[3][1][2][3][4][5]
The Louvre Murder Club was followed by Scènes de Crime à Orsay / The Orsay Murder Club in 2018 (Le Passage Editions, 2018) with works of art from the Orsay Museum[4] in Paris.[6][7][8]
His crime fiction takes place in contemporary Greece and follows the investigations of a Police Captain, Christophoros Markou. His writing style is inspired by Agatha Christie[5][9], and his books are a hybrid between a Whodunit and a Mediterranean Noir,[6] focusing on the investigation, the psychology of the characters[7] and current social conditions[8].[10][11][12][13][14][15]
His first crime novel Au 5e étage de la faculté de droit (Albin Michel, 2018) received the prize of the Académie du Var in 2018.
His crime novel Qui a tué Lucy Davis? (Plon 2022) received the Prix Méditerranée du Polar in 2023.
His novel Omero, le fils caché (2023) is a what if story inspired by the alleged son Maria Callas and Aristotle Onassis had in the early days of their affair, in 1960. The baby died a few hours after his birth, and Christos Markogiannakis invents his life, had he survived. The novel combines the principles of ancient Greek tragedy and contemporary mystery fiction.
Publications
Scènes de crime au Louvre (Le Passage, 2017)
The Louvre Murder Club (Le Passage, 2017)
Au 5e étage de la faculté de droit (broché) (Albin Michel, 2018) Au 5e étage de la faculté de droit (poche) (Livre de Poche, 2020)
