Carlo Fruttero
Carlo Fruttero (19 September 1926 – 15 January 2012) was an Italian writer, journalist, translator and editor of anthologies.
Carlo Fruttero | |
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| Born | 19 September 1926 Turin, Italy |
| Died | 15 January 2012 (aged 85) Roccamare, Castiglione della Pescaia, Italy |
| Resting place | Garden cemetery of Castiglione della Pescaia |
| Pen name | F&L (together with Franco Lucentini) |
| Occupation | novelist, journalist, translator, editor |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Period | 1961–2012 |
| Genre | mainstream fiction, crime fiction |
Fruttero was born in Turin. He is mostly known for his joint work with Franco Lucentini, especially as authors of crime novels. The duo were also editors of the science-fiction series Urania from the 1960s to the 1980s, and of the comic-strip magazine Il Mago.
Fruttero died in Roccamare, Castiglione della Pescaia in 2012, aged 85.[1]
Bibliography
- Volti a perdere (1999)
- Visibilità zero (1999; bylined as "Fruttero & Fruttero" - playing on the usual "Fruttero & Lucentini" - tells with more humour than satire the story of the imaginary member of parliament Aldo Slucca)
- Donne informate sui fatti (2006)
- Ti trovo un po' pallida (2007; see below, under the joint works with Lucentini)
- Mutandine di chiffon (2010; autobiographical writings)
- with Massimo Gramellini: La Patria, bene o male, Mondadori, Milano 2010, ISBN 978-88-04-60329-0.
Works with Franco Lucentini
- Il secondo libro della fantascienza (1961; the first of several successful anthologies of science fiction short stories edited by F&L; literally, "The second science fiction book")
- L'idraulico non verrà (1971; poetry collection; lit., "The plumber will not come")
- La donna della domenica, (1972, translated into English by William Weaver as The Sunday Woman in 1973; the first and most famous novel by F&L, and one of the first examples of Italian crime novels)
- L'Italia sotto il tallone di F&L (1974; a humorous political fantasy in which Fruttero & Lucentini become dictators of Italy with the help of Muammar al-Gaddafi; the novel was inspired by the actual harsh reaction of the embassy of Libya to a satirical article by F&L in La Stampa, very critical of Gaddafi; lit., "Italy under F[ruttero] & L[ucentini]'s heel")
- Il significato dell'esistenza (1974; lit., "The meaning of existence")
- A che punto è la notte (1979; crime novel; lit., "What of the night", as in the Bible, Isaiah 21:11).
- La cosa in sé (1982; play "in two acts and a licence" about a man who realises that solipsism is real and all the universe is created by his mind; lit., "The thing in itself", as in the philosophical term)
- Il Palio delle contrade morte (1983, lit., "The Palio of the dead quarters")
- Ti trovo un po' pallida (1983; a ghost story set in sunny Tuscany, originally appeared in the L'Espresso magazine in 1979; it was actually written by Fruttero alone, as explained in the afterword to the 2007 edition; lit., "You look quite pale")
- La prevalenza del cretino (1985; a collection of "L'Agenda di F. & L." columns form the newspaper La Stampa, about all forms of stupidity; lit., "The supremacy of the cretin")
- Il colore del destino (1987; collection of three novellas: Notizie dagli scavi (by Lucentini) and Ti trovo un po' pallida (by Fruttero), already published, and Il colore del destino (written jointly); it is the only book by the two authors having the byline "Lucentini & Fruttero" rather than "Fruttero & Lucentini"; lit., "The colour of destiny")
- La verità sul caso D (1989, translated into English by Gregory Dowling as The D. Case: or The Truth about the Mystery of Edwin Drood; a completion and elaboration on Dickens' The Mystery of Edwin Drood; lit., "The truth on the D case")
- L'amante senza fissa dimora (1986; a novel about a successful Italian woman meeting a mysterious man in romantic Venice: an apparently standard love story with a twist; lit.. Published in english by Chatto & Windus in 1999 as "No fixed abode")
- Storie americane di guerra (1991, editor; anthology of "American war stories")
- Enigma in luogo di mare (1991; crime novel set in a seaside community in Tuscany; lit., "Riddle in a sea town")
- Il ritorno del cretino (1992; more columns from "La Stampa"; lit., "The comeback of the cretin")
- Breve storia delle vacanze (1994; lit., "Short history of vacations")
- La morte di Cicerone (1995; lit., "Cicero's death")
- Il nuovo libro dei nomi di battesimo (1998; a non-fiction handbook about how to choose a name for a son, with amusing information and trivia on names' meaning and use)
- Il cretino in sintesi (2002; still more columns from "La Stampa"; lit., "The cretin in synthesis")
- Viaggio di nozze al Louvre (2002; lit., "Honeymoon at the Louvre")
- I nottambuli (2002; lit., "The nightwalkers")
- I ferri del mestiere (2003; a collection of articles and short stories edited by Domenico Scarpa; lit., "The tools of the trade")
References
- "Addio allo scrittore Carlo Fruttero" [Goodbye to the writer Carlo Fruttero]. Corriere della Sera (in Italian). 15 January 2012.
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