Friday, October 24, 6:00 PM – Teatro Rasi
Thirty Years of the Alligator. A conversation with MASSIMO CARLOTTO (“A esequie avvenute”, Einaudi)
Massimo Carlotto
Massimo Carlotto was born in Padua in 1956. Discovered by writer and critic Grazia Cherchi, he debuted in 1995 with the novel Il fuggiasco (The Fugitive), published by Edizioni E/O and winner of the 1996 Premio del Giovedì. For the same publisher, he wrote Arrivederci amore, ciao (Goodbye Love, Goodbye)—which earned second place at the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière in France in 2003 and was a finalist for the Edgar Allan Poe Award in its English version published by Europa Editions in 2006—introducing the character Giorgio Pellegrini. He also wrote La verità dell’Alligatore (The Alligator’s Truth), which launched the series dedicated to Marco Buratti, nicknamed the Alligator, comprising twelve novels.
Some of his other titles include: Niente, più niente al mondo (Nothing, Nothing More in the World, winner of the Girulà Prize 2008), L’oscura immensità della morte (The Dark Immensity of Death), Nordest (with Marco Videtta, winner of the Bancarella Selection Prize 2006), La terra della mia anima (The Land of My Soul, winner of the Grinzane Noir Prize 2007), Cristiani di Allah (Christians of Allah), Perdas de Fogu (with Mama Sabot, winner of the Jean-Claude Izzo Ecologist Noir Prize 2009), Alla fine di un giorno noioso (At the End of a Boring Day), Il mondo non mi deve nulla (The World Owes Me Nothing), the illustrated fairy tale La via del pepe (The Way of Pepper) with drawings by Alessandro Sanna, and La signora del martedì (The Lady of Tuesday).
For Einaudi Stile Libero, he published Respiro corto (Short Breath), Cocaina (Cocaine, with Gianrico Carofiglio and Giancarlo De Cataldo), and, with Marco Videtta, the four novels of the Le Vendicatrici (The Avengers) cycle (Ksenia, Eva, Sara, and Luz); finally Trudi and, this year, A esequie avvenute (After the Funeral), which marks the return of the Alligator.
For Rizzoli, he published Il Turista (The Tourist) and Sbirre (Cops, with Giancarlo De Cataldo and Maurizio de Giovanni).
His books have been translated into many languages and have won numerous awards both in Italy and abroad. Massimo Carlotto is also a playwright, screenwriter, and collaborates with newspapers, magazines, and musicians.
