In the artist's words:

Peter Godazgar was born in Korschenbroich, grew up in Hückelhoven and studied German and history in Aachen after graduating from high school. He then completed a traineeship at the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung in Halle (Saale) and attended the Henri Nannen School in Hamburg. He made his debut as an author with the novel for the screenplay of the successful movie Knockin' on Heaven's Door. Godazgar worked as an editor for the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung in Halle until 2016 and is currently deputy press spokesman for the city of Halle. His highly humorous crime novels about the doltish private investigator Markus Waldo, which have been published by Grafit Verlag in Dortmund since 2005, are also set in Halle. In 2011, Godazgar received a grant from the Saxony-Anhalt Art Foundation.^[1] In 2013, he took part in the crime novel project 8 - The Crime Novel Camp with the authors Kathrin Heinrichs, Carsten Sebastian Henn, Jürgen Kehrer, Ralf Kramp, Tatjana Kruse, Sandra Lüpkes and Sabine Trinkaus: the aim was to write a crime novel with eight authors in eight days.[^2] The project had a second edition in July 2016, resulting in the publication of the crime novel "Acht Leichen zum Dessert" under the pseudonym A.N.Onym.^[3] Two further meetings in July 2018 and June/July 2020 produced the plays Halbpension mit Leiche^[4] and Bares, Rares - und weg war es! Godazgar was nominated for the Friedrich Glauser Prize in 2017 for the short thriller Sicherheit ist planbar. A second nomination followed in 2019 for the short thriller Zu schlau für diese Welt, and a third in 2022 for the short thriller In der Werkstatt.

Peter Godazgar is a member of the authors' association Syndikat and was a member of the speaker team from 2014 to 2016^[5].

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