Georgi Markov

Georgi Ivanov Markov ( Bulgarian Георги Иванов Марков; born March 1, 1929 in Sofia, † September 11, 1978 in London, United Kingdom) was a Bulgarian writer.

Outside of Bulgaria, he is mainly known for its spectacular circumstances of his death.

Life

Markov emigrated in 1969 from Bulgaria to Italy, where his brother lived, and later worked in London as a journalist. He publicly criticized the Communist leadership of his home country.

He was born on September 7, 1978 at the Waterloo Bridge in London victims of the umbrella assassination by an impregnated small ball, which was at its peak, stabbed him with an umbrella in the right calf. The ball made ​​of a platinum -iridium alloy had a diameter of 1.52 mm and was prepared with about 40 micrograms of the highly toxic substance ricin. Markov died three days after the assassination with fever and hypotension due to heart failure.

As an offender, an agent of the Bulgarian secret service called Francesco Gullino was blamed.

Writings

• The portrait of my doppelganger from the Bulgarian Rumiana Ebert and Ines Sevesta. Wieser Verlag, Klagenfurt 2010 ( first Sofia, 1966)
• The Women of Warsaw. Amendment from Bulgarian by Romania Ebert and Ines Sebesta. Wieser, Klagenfurt 2012 ( first Sofia, 1968)
• The lieutenant and the power; first German-language excerpt from Markov's remote reports in: Europe brevier unlimited 2 - a literary trip to Bulgaria, a Puzzle & other directions from the narrowness ( anthology; Thomas Frahm, translator and HG and Klaus Servene, HG; further contributions from: Christo Botev, Stojan Mihajlovski, Konstantin Pavlov, fishing Cart stone, Vladimir Tsarev, Kalin Terzijski, Galina Zlatareva, Ivan Kulekov, Mirela Ivanova, Kristin Dimitrova, Dimo Alexiev, Mannheim 2012 ISBN 978-3-936625-19-6