Georgi Markov

Georgi Ivanov Markov (Bulgarian: Георги Иванов Марков; 1 March 1929 – 11 September 1978) was a Bulgarian dissident writer. He was born in Sofia and was murdered in London. He was stabbed in the leg with an umbrella which injected ricin, a deadly poison. It is believed that Bulgarian security persuaded the KGB to do the job.

Career

Publications

• «Задочни репортажи за България» — 1978
• «Когато часовниците са спрели. Нови задочни репортажи за България» — 1991

Books

• «Победителите на Аякс» — 1959
• «Цезиева нощ» — 1957
• «Мъже» — 1962
• «Покривът» — 2007

Theatre

• «Последният патент» — 1965
• «Кафе с претенция» — 1966
• «Да се провреш под дъгата»
• «Комунисти»
• «Аз бях той»
• «Асансьорът» — 1967
• «Атентат в затворената улица» — 1968
• «Архангел Михаил» — 1990, 1997

Novels

• «Анкета» — 1961
• «Между нощта и деня» — 1961
• «Портретът на моя двойник» — 1966, 1996
• «Жените на Варшава» — 1968

Books

• Markov, Georgi; David Phillips (1978). Right Honourable Chimpanzee. Secker & Warburg. ISBN 978-0-436-48310-3.
• Markov, Georgi (1984). The Truth That Killed. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 978-0-89919-296-3.
• Emsley, John (2008). Molecules of Murder. Royal Society of Chemistry. ISBN 978-0-85404-965-3.

Other websites

• Markov's umbrella assassin revealed. After 26 years, police hope to bring killer to justice by Nick Paton Walsh. June 6, 2005. (The Guardian)
• WNET (PBS) "Secrets of the Dead" Archived 2013-05-24 at the Wayback Machine on investigation of the assassination.
• Georgi Markov "The Umbrella Assassination" mvm.ed.ac.uk Archived 2006-10-13 at the Wayback Machine
• "The Poison Umbrella" Yveta Kenety, in: The New Presence 4/2006, S. 46-48