Massimo Carlotto

Massimo Carlotto
Born (1957-06-22)June 22, 1957
Padua, Italy
Occupation Novelist
Nationality Italian
Period 1995–current
Genre Crime fiction, noir, hardboiled, thriller
Literary movement New Italian Epic
Website
massimocarlotto.it

Massimo Carlotto (born July 22, 1957) is an Italian writer and playwright.

Biography

The "Carlotto case"

Carlotto was at the center of one of the most controversial legal cases of Italian contemporary history.[1]

In 1976, a student of twenty-five years, Margherita Magello, was found dead at his home, killed by 59 stab wounds.[1]

Massimo Carlotto, a student of nineteen years and activist of Lotta Continua, accidentally discovers the victim, bleeding and dying, and instead of notifying the police, frightened, he flees. He is then arrested and charged with homicide. He claimed ever his innocence.[1]

In the first trial, he was acquitted for lack of evidence by the Criminal Court of Padua but was sentenced to 18 years in imprisonment by the Court Call the Venice, and the sentence was confirmed by the Supreme Court in 1982.[1] He then fled, first in France and to Mexico, but after three years on the run he was captured by Mexican police and sent back to Italy.[1] A large people movement substained Carlotto in this case; for example signed a petitions for him Ettore Gallo, Jorge Amado, Nilde Iotti, Norberto Bobbio, Giandomenico Pisapia and Ferdinando Imposimato.

In 1989 the Supreme Court orders retrial and returns players to the Court of Appeal of Venice, for know if Carlotto had to be acquitted in accordance with the old or the new penal code; in 1990 raises the question of constitutional legitimacy: the decision of the Italian Constitutional Court arrives in 1991, but the President of Court is retired, which requires a second trial during which Carlotto (suffering by a serious metabolic disease) was sentenced to 16 years in prison, and it's violated, according Carlotto's lawyers, the principle of double jeopardy/ne bis in idem.[1]

Public opinion takes Carlotto's party, and in 1993 the President of Italy Oscar Luigi Scalfaro grant him the pardon.[1]

Writer

Massimo Carlotto begins literary activity, particularly writing novels noir genre, with Il fuggiasco ("The Fugitive", 1995), fictionalized autobiography about his time on the run. The book was made into a film in 2003, directed by Andrea Manni, with Daniele Liotti.

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

In 1998 he published Le irregolari, and the autobiographical novel of inquiry in which is told the Argentine civil war and repression of the seventies, during the so-called dirty war; knows and interview the founder of the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, Estela Carlotto, who out to be her relative and seeking news of her daughter and newborn grandson, 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.

His books have been translated in France, United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Greece, Netherlands, Czech Republic and United States.

Awards

Works

Novels

Short stories

Essays

Graphic novels

Youth's literature

English Editions

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (Italian) The Carlotto case

External links

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