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Massimo Carlotto (born 22 July 1956) is an Italian writer and playwright.


Biography

The "Carlotto case"
Carlotto was at the center of one of the most controversial legal cases in Italian contemporary history. The Carlotto case

In 1976, a 25-year-old student, Margherita Magello, was found dead at her home, killed by 59 stab wounds.

Massimo Carlotto, a 19-year-old student member of happened upon the victim after hearing her cries. He found her bleeding and dying inside of a wardrobe. Instead of notifying the police, he panicked and fled. He was soon arrested and charged with homicide. He never wavered in maintaining his innocence.

In the first trial, he was acquitted for lack of evidence by the of but was then sentenced upon appeal to 18 years by the Court Call the . This sentence was confirmed by the Supreme Court in 1982. He became a fugitive, first in France and then in , where he was captured after three years on the run and extradited to Italy. A large popular movement took up Carlotto's cause; in addition, a number of prominent figures signed a petition on his behalf including , , , , Giandomenico Pisapia, and Ferdinando Imposimato.

In 1989 the Supreme Court ordered retrial, sending the case back to the Court of Appeal of Venice to establish whether Carlotto should be acquitted in accordance with the old or the new penal code. In 1990, the question of constitutional legitimacy was raised. In 1991, the Italian Constitutional Court rendered its decision, but the President of Court's retirement meant yet another trial was necessary, during which Carlotto (suffering from a serious metabolic disease) was sentenced to 16 years in prison. This new conviction violated, Carlotto's lawyers argued, the principle of /ne bis in idem.

Public opinion was on Carlotto's side and in 1993 the Italian President, Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, granted him a . -->


Writer
Massimo Carlotto began his literary career, particularly writing novels in the noir genre, with Il fuggiasco ("The Fugitive", 1995), a fictionalized autobiography about his time on the run. The book was made into a film in 2003, directed by , with as Carlotto.

His most famous character is the Alligator, alias Marco Buratti, an entirely original private detective.

In 1998 he published Le irregolari, the autobiographical novel of inquiry in which is told the Argentine civil war and repression of the seventies, during the so-called . He knows and has interviewed the founder of the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, , whom he transpired to be related to, and who sought news of her daughter and newborn grandson, who numbered among the .

In 2001 he released Arrivederci, amore ciao (which was adapted into the movie The Goodbye Kiss by , 2005).

In 2004 he published L'oscura immensità della morte ("Death's Dark Abyss"), a particularly dark and nihilistic noir centered on the theme of revenge, which was adapted into the Hindi film Badlapur.

His books have been translated in France, , United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, , , and the United States.


Awards
  • Premio del Giovedì (1996)
  • Premio Dessì (1999)
  • Premio Scerbanenco (1999)
  • Premio Scerbanenco (2002)
  • 2nd place Grand prix de littérature policière (2003)
  • Premio Ciliegia d'oro (2003)
  • Premio Lama e trama (2005)
  • Finalist of Premio Bancarella (2006)
  • Premio del Libraio – Città di Padova (2007)
  • Finalist of for Arrivederci amore ciao ( The goodbye kiss, 2007)
  • Premio Letterario Noir Ecologista Jean Claude Izzo (2009)
  • Premio SUGARPRIZE (2013)


Works

Novels
  • Il fuggiasco, Roma, Edizioni e/o, 1995. .
  • La verità dell'Alligatore, Roma, Edizioni e/o, 1995. .
  • Il mistero di Mangiabarche, Roma, Edizioni e/o, 1997. .
  • , Roma, Edizioni e/o, 1998. .
  • Nessuna cortesia all'uscita, Roma, Edizioni e/o, 1999. .
  • Arrivederci amore, ciao, Roma, Edizioni e/o, 2001. .
  • L'oscura immensità della morte, Roma, Edizioni e/o, 2004. .
  • Niente, più niente al mondo, Roma, Edizioni e/o, 2004. .
  • with , Nordest, Roma, Edizioni e/o, 2005. .
  • La terra della mia anima, Roma, Edizioni e/o, 2006. .
  • with , Mi fido di te, Torino, Einaudi, 2007. .
  • L'alligatore, Roma, Edizioni e/o (I super e/o), 2007. .
  • Cristiani di Allah, Roma, Edizioni e/o, 2008. .
  • con i , Perdas de Fogu, Roma, Edizioni e/o, 2008. .
  • con , L'albero dei microchip, VerdeNero, 2009. .
  • L'amore del bandito, Roma, Edizioni e/o, 2009. .
  • Alla fine di un giorno noioso, Roma, Edizioni e/o, 2011. .
  • , Einaudi, Torino, 2012
  • (con Giancarlo De Cataldo e Gianrico Carofiglio), Torino, Einaudi, 2013.
  • with Marco Videtta, Le Vendicatrici. Ksenia, Torino, Einaudi, 2013.
  • with Marco Videtta, Le Vendicatrici. Eva, Torino, Einaudi, 2013.
  • with Marco Videtta, Le Vendicatrici. Sara: Il prezzo della verità, Torino, Einaudi, 2013.
  • with Marco Videtta, Le Vendicatrici. Luz: Solo per amore, Torino, Einaudi, 2013.
  • La banda degli amanti, Roma, Edizioni e/o, 2015,


Short stories
  • Il confronto, in Tecla Dozio (a cura di), Delitti sotto l'albero. Todaro editore, 1999. .
  • Champagne per due, in Tecla Dozio (a cura di), Capodanno nero. Todaro editore, 2000. .
  • Il viaggio di Stefano, in Tutta un'altra vita. Roma, Minimum Fax, 2001. .
  • Malavita albanese in (a cura di), Albania, questa sconosciuta. In viaggio con il Premio Grinzane Cavour. , 2002.
  • Carlo Marx e l'impresario, in Nel Grembo del mondo, Ed. Angolo Manzoni, 2003. .
  • Sassi, bottiglie e candelotti, in (a cura di), Piazza bella piazza, allegato a L'Unità. Roma, Associazione Walter Rossi, 2005.
  • Gaia, in Laurent Lombard (a cura di), À table!. Métailié, 2004.
  • San Basilio, 8 settembre 1974, in Paola Staccioli (a cura di), In ordine pubblico. Roma, Associazione Walter Rossi, 2005.
  • Morte di un confidente, in Crimini, Einaudi, 2005. .
  • Il piccolo patriota padovano, in Giosuè Calaciura et al, Ricuore. Nuoro, Edizioni Il Maestrale, 2005. .
  • Il traghetto in Le finestre sul cortile. Frammenti d'Italia in 49 racconti. Quiritta, 2005. .
  • Sangue che va sangue che viene, in et al, Lama e trama Vol. 3. Bologna, Editrice Zona, 2006. .
  • Storia di Gabriella vedova di mala, in Serge Quadruppani (a cura di), 14 colpi al cuore. Racconti inediti dei migliori giallisti italiani. Milano, Mondadori, 2002 . Collana: Il Giallo Mondadori, n. 2789.
  • Cuori rossi, in (a cura di) . Città in nero, 1 ed. Parma, , 2006. .
  • Jasmine in e Massimo Carlotto. Catfish. Reggio Emilia, , 2006. .
  • Nessun dubbio: omicidio-suicidio, in (a cura di), Ti amo, ti ammazzo. Storie vere di amanti e assassini, Cairo Editore, 2007
  • Little dream, in Giancarlo De Cataldo (a cura di) Crimini italiani. Torino, Einaudi, 2008. .
  • Cortonese station, in Nero perugino. Perugia, Futura soc. coop., 2008 (edizione fuori commercio).
  • A , per il nostro domani, in Paola Staccioli (a cura di), Per sempre ragazzo. Racconti e poesie a dieci anni dall'uccisione di Carlo Giuliani, Marco Tropea editore, 2011


Essays
  • Come un rito collettivo in Almanacco Guanda a cura di . Parma, Guanda, 2005.
  • Patotas in Nessuna Pietà a cura di Luca Scarlini. Adriano Salani editore, Milano 2009


Graphic novels
  • Massimo Carlotto, Giuseppe Palumbo. L'ultimo treno. Edizioni BD, 2004. .
  • Massimo Carlotto, & Andrea "Red" Mutti. Arrivederci amore, ciao, in Eraldo Baldini et al. Alta criminalità. Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 2005. .
  • Massimo Carlotto, . Dimmi che non-vuoi morire. Milano, Mondadori, 2007. .
  • Massimo Carlotto, Giuseppe Palumbo. Tomka. Il gitano di Guernica. Rizzoli, 2007. .


Literature for young people
  • Il giorno in cui Gabriel scoprì di chiamarsi Miguel Angel, 2001 .
  • Jimmy della Collina, 2002
  • with Tinin Mantegazza, Il mistero dei bisonti scomparsi, 2010


English editions
  • The Colombian Mule, English translation by Christopher Woodall, 2001 .
  • The Master of Knots, English translation by Christopher Woodall, 2002 .
  • The Goodbye Kiss, English translation by Lawrence Venuti, 2006 .
  • The Fugitive, English translation by Anthony Shugaar, 2007 .
  • Death’s Dark Abyss, English translation by Lawrence Venuti, 2007 .
  • Poisonville, English translation by Lawrence Venuti, 2009 .
  • Bandit Love, English translation by Anthony Shugaar, 2010 .
  • At the End of a Dull Day, English translation by Anthony Shugaar, 2013 .
  • Gang of Lovers, English translation by Anthony Shugaar, 2015 .
  • For All the Gold in the World, English translation by Anthony Shugaar, 2016 .
  • Cocaine, English translation by Shaun Whiteside, 2020 .
  • Blues for Outlaw Hearts and Old Whores, English translation by Will Schutt, 2020 .


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