Peter Trudgill is an English academic linguist who has written books and papers on the dialectology and sociolinguistics of many languages, including Greek. He has been visiting Crete for over 30 years, and has been to Sfakia more than 80 times. Peter is the author of In Sfakia: Passing Time in the Wilds of Crete, which was written with his wife Jean Hannah and published by Lycabettus Press (Athens) in 2008. The Greek translation : appeared in 2013 from the same publisher. A German translation In der Sfakia: Geschichte und Geschichten - unsere Zeit im wilden Kreta was published by Balistier in 2011.
