Fruttero & Lucentini

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Fruttero & Lucentini (or F. & L.) was the usual way for Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini to sign their joint work, including novels, short stories, articles, anthologies. [1] Their most successful works include the mysteries La donna della domenica , turned into a movie directed by Luigi Comencini, and A che punto è la notte .[ citation needed ]

They were also editors of the science fiction magazine Urania , and edited numerous science fiction or horror anthologies for Arnoldo Mondadori Editore until the mid-1980s.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. "Fruttero & Lucentini - Scheda autore e Libri". Libri Mondadori (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-01-07.