Massimo Carlotto | |
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| Born | 22 July 1956 Padua, Italy |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Period | 1995–current |
| Genre | Crime fiction, noir, hardboiled, thriller |
| Literary movement | New Italian Epic |
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Massimo Carlotto (born 22 July 1956) is an Italian writer and playwright.
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. He knows and has interviewed the founder of the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, Estela Carlotto, whom he transpired to be related to, and who sought news of her daughter and newborn grandson, who numbered among the desaparecidos .
In 2001 he released Arrivederci, amore ciao (which was adapted into the movie The Goodbye Kiss by Michele Soavi, 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, Bulgaria, United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Greece, Netherlands, Czech Republic and the United States.
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