Yannis Maris, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Yannis Maris

Greek screenwriter and novelist (1916-1979)

Date of Birth: 06-Nov-1916

Place of Birth: Skopelos, Decentralized Administration of Thessaly and Central Greece, Greece

Date of Death: 13-Nov-1979

Profession: screenwriter, novelist

Nationality: Greece

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Yannis Tsirimokos (1916–1979) was a Greek left-wing journalist, better known under the name Yannis Maris (G?????? ?a???) as a writer of detective fiction.
From 1953, Maris wrote over forty short and well plotted novels that at the time were looked down on in Greece as pulp fiction, but have in later years come to be regarded as classics of the crime genre.
Many of the novels feature Inspector Bekas (?st???µ?? ?p??a?), the title figure of a contemporary Greek TV series.
Maris was noted for the humorous and coded names of his books' characters.