Peter May

Peter May was born in Glasgow in 1951. He initially worked as a journalist and later became one of the most esteemed screenwriters in Scottish television. A few years ago, he decided to leave the world of television to dedicate himself to writing novels. His works include: "The Firemaker" (2005, nominated for the Elle magazine readers' prize), "The Fourth Sacrifice" (2006), "The Killing Room" (2006), "Snakehead" (2007, winner of the 2007 Intramuros prize at the Polar & Co festival in Cognac), "The Runner" (2007), and "Chinese Whispers" (2008). The novel "The Blackhouse" is his first book to be translated into Greek and is also the first part of "The Lewis Trilogy." It was first published in France, where the author currently resides, under the title "L’ile des chasseurs d’oiseaux." It was hailed as a masterpiece by the newspaper "L'Humanité" and won the Readers' Prize at the Le Havre Encres Noires festival in 2010, as well as the Cezam Prix Littéraire Inter CE in Strasbourg. The second part of the trilogy, titled "The Lewis Man," was published in 2012 and also received literary accolades in France (readers' prizes from the Le Havre Encres Noires festival and "Télégramme" magazine).