Carlo Fruttero

Carlo Fruttero , born with Turin the September 19th 1926, is a writer, Traducteur and Italian Journaliste . He wrote most of his work in collaboration with Franco Lucentini.

Biography

Carlo Fruttero works as translator during many years before becoming acquainted with Free Lucentini in 1953. Both will make team starting from 1957, until the death of Lucentini in 2002.

Since this date, Carlo Fruttero continues to publish novels.

In 2007, the Chiara price crowned the whole of its work. The same year, Carlo Fruttero received the Prix Campiello for Of the quite informed women .

Fruttero and Lucentini

During forty-five years, the team which Fruttero and Lucentini, extremely famous form under the abbreviation of “F & L”, will deploy her talents in the field of the Journalisme, of the Traduction, the edition, the Littérature and the Detective novel. “F & L” carry a nickname besides: the “firm” (the ditta ).

Their first common book is a collection of poems, the idraulico not verrà , in 1971, but it is the following year which Fruttero and Lucentini know glory thanks to a detective novel, Gave It beyond domenica ( the Woman of Sunday ), to which they will take an action pursuant in 1979 with has che punto E the notte . Among their others Best-seller S, one can quote the Lover without fixed residence , where they revisit the myth of the Juif wandering, and Place of His, side shade , Thriller closely related to the mysteries of the Palio of His.

For each written book with four hands, novels or tests, they are distributed the roles: one writes a first jet, the other reads again and deals with the back in shape of the text.

Starting from 1972, they also write for Stampa , large the Quotidien of Turin, where their chronicle entitled the Diary di F & L offers a malicious comment on the events of the topicality. The two fellow-members also publish many articles in Espresso and in Epoca , which does not prevent them from working as translators (for example, they translate into Italian the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of R.L. Stevenson), to adapt the novel Pierre of the moon of Wilkie Collins in 1972 for the Télévision, to imagine an end with the Mystère of Edwin Drood of Dickens (under the title of the Business D or the Crime of the false vagrant ), to publish Anthologie S, to direct collections in editors like Einaudi and Mondadori, or to govern the destinies of the magazine It Mago and the review Urania , which they directed from 1961 to 1986.

Their first best-seller, the Woman of Sunday , was adapted to the Cinéma in 1975 by Luigi Comencini, with Marcello Mastroianni in the role of the Santamaria police chief.

Works of Carlo Fruttero

Of the quite informed women , Laffont, 2007

Works of Fruttero and Lucentini

the Significance of the existence , Others, 1979
Place of His, side shade , Threshold, 1987
the Prevalence of the cretin , test, Delivers Pocket, 1990
the Color of the destiny , Seuil, 1990
the Night of the Large Boss , Livre Pocket, 1990
Business D. or the Crime of the false vagrant (Dickens), Points/Seuil, 1991
what the wind of west saw, Seuil, 1993
the Woman of Sunday , Points/Threshold, 1995
the Lover without fixed residence , Laffont, coll Houses Pocket, 2007
Safeguard of the smile , Arléa

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