Pol Koutsakis

Greek-Australian novelist, playwright and screenwriter living in Perth, Australia. Won the National Award for Young Adult Literature in Greece and twice the National Award for Playwriting.
Publishers Weekly gave Pol's crime novel "Baby Blue" a starred review and called Pol "better than James Ellroy". Other reviews: "An absorbing entry in this must-read hard-boiled series" - Booklist, "In a noir worthy of the genre’s founders, Koutsakis makes Athens, and Stratos Gazis, fitting Greek stand-ins for Los Angeles, Philip Marlowe, and Sam Spade" - CrimeReads.
His plays have been staged in the USA and the UK and published in Canada. One screenplay has been optioned for film.