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


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 Andrea Manni, with Daniele Liotti 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
dirty war The Dirty War () is the name used by the military junta or National Reorganization Process, civic-military dictatorship of Argentina () for its period of state terrorism in Argentina from 1974 to 1983. During this campaign, military and secu ...
. He knows and has interviewed the founder of the
Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo The Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo () is a human rights organization with the goal of finding the children stolen and illegally adopted during the 1976–1983 Argentine military dictatorship. The president is Estela Barnes de Carlotto. The org ...
, Estela Carlotto, whom he transpired to be related to, and who sought news of her daughter and newborn grandson, who numbered among the ''
desaparecidos An enforced disappearance (or forced disappearance) is the secret abduction or imprisonment of a person with the support or acquiescence of a State (polity), state followed by a refusal to acknowledge the person's fate or whereabouts with the i ...
''. In 2001 he released ''Arrivederci, amore ciao'' (which was adapted into the movie '' The Goodbye Kiss'' by
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, 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,
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, United Kingdom, Germany, Spain,
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and the United States.


Awards

* Premio del Giovedì (1996) * Premio Dessì (1999) * Premio Scerbanenco (1999) * Premio Scerbanenco (2002) * 2nd place
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(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
Edgar Allan Poe Awards The Edgar Allan Poe Awards, popularly called the Edgars, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America which is based in New York City. Named after American writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), a pioneer in the genre, the awards honor ...
for ''Arrivederci amore ciao'' (''The goodbye kiss'', 2007) * Premio Letterario Noir Ecologista Jean Claude Izzo (2009) * Premi
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. . * '' Le irregolari. Buenos Aires horror tour'', 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 Marco Videtta, ''Nordest'', Roma, Edizioni e/o, 2005. . * ''La terra della mia anima'', Roma, Edizioni e/o, 2006. . * with Francesco Abate, '' 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 Mama Sabot, '' Perdas de Fogu'', Roma, Edizioni e/o, 2008. . * con Francesco Abate, ''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. . * '' Respiro corto'', Einaudi, Torino, 2012 * '' Cocaina'' (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 Laura Lepri (a cura di), ''Albania, questa sconosciuta. In viaggio con il Premio Grinzane Cavour''.
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, 2002. * ''Carlo Marx e l'impresario'', in ''Nel Grembo del mondo'', Ed. Angolo Manzoni, 2003. . * ''Sassi, bottiglie e candelotti'', in Paola Staccioli (a cura di), ''Piazza bella piazza'', allegato a
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. 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 Marco Bariletti ''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) Marco Vichi. ''Città in nero'', 1 ed. Parma, Ugo Guanda, 2006. . * ''Jasmine'' in Francesco Abate e Massimo Carlotto. ''Catfish''. Reggio Emilia, Aliberti editore, 2006. . * ''Nessun dubbio: omicidio-suicidio'', in Mauro Zola (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 Carlo Giuliani, 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 Ranieri Polese. 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, Luca Crovi & Andrea "Red" Mutti. ''Arrivederci amore, ciao'', in Eraldo Baldini ''et al.'' ''Alta criminalità''.
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, 2005. . * Massimo Carlotto, Igort. ''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 .


References


External links

*
Il ritorno dell'Alligatore
', Official site of Alligator series *
Official web page of Massimo Carlotto

Interview to The Guardian
{{DEFAULTSORT:Carlotto, Massimo 1957 births 21st-century Italian male writers Living people Italian communists Italian male journalists Italian mystery writers Italian journalists Italian people convicted of murder Italian people imprisoned abroad Italian prisoners and detainees Prisoners and detainees of Italy Trials in Italy Workerism Writers from Padua Recipients of Italian presidential pardons