Giancarlo De Cataldo

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Giancarlo De Cataldo (born February 7, 1956 in Taranto ) is an Italian judge and author of detective novels .

Life

De Cataldo has lived in Rome since he began his law studies in 1974 , where he is now (2014) a judge at the jury (Corte d'Assise). De Cataldo is a writer, translator, writer of plays and screenplays for television. He has written a number of crime stories and is also the editor of edited volumes of crime stories by Italian authors. He is also an employee of various Italian newspapers such as La Repubblica , L'Unità , La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno , Il Messaggero , Il Nuovo , Paese Sera and Hot! .

His four novels Nelle mani giuste ( Dirty Hands ), La forma della paura ( Time of Anger ), Romanzo Criminale ( Romanzo Criminale ) and Io sono il Lebanese ( The King of Rome ) represent a tetralogy, all by the Italian mafia of act from the 1970s until today.

Several of De Cataldo's novels were filmed, such as Romanzo Criminale as a feature film (2005) and television series (2008-2010) and Suburra as a feature film ( Suburra , 2015) and television series ( Suburra: Blood on Rome , 2017). In 2016 De Cataldo was appointed to the competition jury of the 73rd Venice International Film Festival .

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Novels

• Contessa . Liber, Pavia 1993, ISBN 88-8004-017-0 .
• Terroni . Theoria, Rome / Naples 1995, ISBN 88-241-0409-6 .
• Romanzo Criminale . Einaudi, Turin 2002, ISBN 88-06-16096-6 .
  • Romanzo Criminale. German by Karin Fleischanderl , Folio, Vienna / Bozen 2010, ISBN 978-3-85256-508-8 .
• Nelle mani giuste. Einaudi, Turin 2007, ISBN 978-88-06-20277-4 .
  • Dirty hands. German by Karin Fleischanderl, Folio, Vienna / Bozen 2011, ISBN 978-3-85256-554-5 .
• L'India, l'elefante e me. Rizzoli, Milan 2008, ISBN 978-88-17-02587-4 .
• La forma della paura. (together with Mimmo Rafele), Einaudi, Turin 2010, ISBN 978-88-06-20494-5 .
  • Time of anger. German by Karin Fleischanderl, Folio, Vienna / Bozen 2012, ISBN 978-3-85256-592-7 .
• I traditori . Einaudi, Turin 2010, ISBN 978-88-06-20211-8 .
• Il padre e lo straniero. Einaudi, Turin 2010.
  • The father and the stranger. German by Karin Fleischanderl, Folio, Vienna / Bozen 2017, ISBN 978-3-99037-068-1 .
• Io sono il Lebanese. Einaudi, Turin 2012, ISBN 978-88-06-21611-5 .
  • The king of Rome. German by Karin Fleischanderl, Folio, Vienna / Bozen 2013, ISBN 978-3-85256-619-1 .
• Int'allu Salento. Ad est dell'equatore, Naples 2012, ISBN 978-88-95797-34-2 .
• Suburra. (together with Carlo Bonini), Einaudi, Turin 2013, ISBN 978-88-06-21527-9 .
  • Suburra. Black Heart of Rome. German by Karin Fleischanderl, Folio, Vienna / Bozen 2015, ISBN 978-3-85256-660-3 .
• Nell'ombra e nella luce . Einaudi, Turin 2014, ISBN 978-88-06-22184-3 . (This historical detective novel was published on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the founding of the Carabinieri police force .)
• Il combattente. Come si diventa Pertini . Rizzoli, Milan 2014, ISBN 978-88-06-22184-3 .
• La notte di Roma (together with Carlo Bonini), Einaudi, Turin 2015, ISBN 978-88-06-22777-7 .
  • The Night of Rome , German by Karin Fleischanderl, Folio, Vienna / Bozen 2016, ISBN 978-3-85256-700-6 .
• L'agente del caos. Einaudi, Turin 2019, ISBN 978-88-06-24072-1 .
  • The Agent of Chaos , German by Karin Fleischanderl, Folio, Vienna / Bozen 2019, ISBN 978-3-85256-768-6 .

Short stories

• Giudici. (together with Andrea Camilleri and Carlo Lucarelli ), Einaudi, Turin 2011, ISBN 978-88-06-20597-3 .
  • Judge. German by Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel, Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-608-93989-7 .
• Cocaina. (together with Gianrico Carofiglio and Massimo Carlotto ), Einaudi, Turin 2013, ISBN 978-88-06-21547-7 .
  • Cocaine. German by Karin Fleischanderl, Folio, Vienna / Bozen 2013, ISBN 978-3-85256-628-3 .
• Medusa (together with Maurizio de Giovanni , Diego de Silva and Carlo Lucarelli ) in Giochi criminali . Einaudi, Turin 2014. ISBN 978-88-06-21951-2 .

As editor

• Crimini. Einaudi, 2005, ISBN 88-06-17576-9 .
  • I know about your dark side. Bastei Lübbe, 2008, ISBN 978-3-404-92288-8 .
• Crimini II. With thrillers by Carlo Lucarelli, Carlo Garofiglio and others
  • Because yours is evil. Bastei Lübbe, 2011, ISBN 978-3-404-16503-2 .

Filmography

template

• 2015: Suburra - 7 days to the Apocalypse (Suburra)
• 2017: Suburra: Blood on Rome (Suburra: la serie)

script

• 2010: The flag of freedom (Noi credevamo)

Awards

• 2003: Premio Giorgio Scerbanenco for Romanzo criminale
• 2006: Prix ​​du polar européen for Romanzo criminale
• 2007: SuperScerbanenco
• 2012: Crime of the year 2011 (7th place) in the KrimiZEIT best list for dirty hands

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nell'ombra e nella luce. Review at BooksReviews. December 23, 2014, accessed March 28, 2015 .  

Web links

• Literature by and about Giancarlo De Cataldo in the catalog of the German National Library
• Giancarlo De Cataldo in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Biography and catalog raisonné
• Interview in Italian
• "Comments" in the newspaper of the Italian Communist Party (it.)