High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Peeta Mellark is a fictional character and one of the protagonists of The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. He is the male tribute from District 12, picked alongside Primrose Everdeen (whose spot is subsequently taken by her sister, Katniss Everdeen) to participate in the 74th annual Hunger Games. In the second book of The Hunger Games series, Catching Fire, Peeta volunteers to be a tribute in the 75th Hunger Games.