Gianrico Carofiglio

Gianrico Carofiglio (2010)

Gianrico Carofiglio (born May 30, 1961 in Bari ) is an Italian writer , lawyer and senator .

Carofiglio worked in his hometown of Bari for years as a judge and anti-Mafia -Staatsanwalt. He appeared as the author of specialist books on expressive psychology and interrogation techniques. From 2007 to April 2008 he worked as an advisor to the Anti-Mafia Commission of the Italian Parliament .

In 2000 he realized a childhood dream and wrote his first detective novel, which was published as a book in 2002, a year after its completion, and was immediately very successful. Six more novels by Carofiglio have now been published in Italy. Four of them are crime novels about the protagonist Guido Guerrieri, a lawyer who works as a criminal defense attorney. The novels are characterized above all by the lively portrayal of suspenseful court scenes. Carofiglio's books have been honored with numerous literary prizes in Italy. a. with the renowned Premio Bancarella , in Germany 2008 with the Radio Bremen crime prize . The foreign licenses of his novels have been sold in 16 countries so far, and some have been filmed for Italian television.

In the elections on April 13 and 14, 2008, he was elected for the Partito Democratico in the Senate , the second chamber of parliament.

Works

The Avvocato Guido Guerrieri series

• Testimone inconsapevole , 2002 (novel)
  • Journey into the Night, German by Claudia Schmitt; Munich: Goldmann 2006. ISBN 3-442-31099-7
• Ad occhi chiusi , 2003 (novel)
  • In freefall, German by Claudia Schmitt; Munich: Goldmann 2007. ISBN 3-442-31133-0
• Ragionevoli dubbi , 2006 (novel)
  • The Law of Honor, German by Claudia Schmitt; Munich: Goldmann 2007. ISBN 3-442-31164-0
• Le perfezioni provvisorie , 2010 (novel)
  • In their darkest hour; German from Viktoria von Schirach; Munich: Goldmann 2011. ISBN 978-3-442-31229-0
• La regola dell'equilibrio , 2014 (novel)
  • A question of dignity , German from Viktoria von Schirach; Munich: Goldmann 2016. ISBN 978-3-442-31429-4
• La misura del tempo, 2019 (novel)

Other works

• Il passato è una terra straniera , 2004 (novel)
  • The past is a dangerous land, by Julia Eisele; Munich: Goldmann 2009. ISBN 978-3-442-31183-5
• L'arte del dubbio , 2007 (essay)
• Cacciatori nelle tenebre , 2007 (graphic novel, with Francesco Carofiglio)
• Né qui né altrove. Una notte a Bari , 2008 (novel)
  • One night in Bari; German from Viktoria von Schirach; Munich: Goldmann 2010. ISBN 978-3-442-47277-2
• La doppia vita di Natalia Blum , 2008 (script template)
• Il paradosso del poliziotto , 2009 ( short stories)
• Non esiste saggezza , 2010 ( short stories)
  • The illusion of wisdom; German by Verena von Koskull; Munich: Goldmann 2012. ISBN 978-3-442-47762-3
• La manomissione delle parole , 2010 (essays)
• Il silenzio dell'onda , 2011 (novel)
  • In the surf; German from Viktoria von Schirach; Munich: Goldmann 2013. ISBN 978-3-442-31226-9
• Cocaina , 2013 (Crime Stories, together with Massimo Carlotto and Giancarlo De Cataldo )
  • Kokain, German by Karin Fleischanderl, Folio Verlag, Vienna / Bozen 2013 ISBN 978-3-85256-628-3
• Il bordo vertiginoso delle cose , 2013 (novel)
  • At the abyss of all things, German by Verena von Koskull; Munich: Goldmann 2015. ISBN 978-3-442-31227-6
• Una mutevole verità , 2014 (novel, published on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the founding of the Carabinieri police force .)
  • Deceptive certainty ', German by Monika Lustig; Vienna / Bozen: Folio 2016. ISBN 978-3-85256-685-6
• L'estate fredda. Einaudi, Turin 2016. ISBN 978-88-06-22774-6 .
  • Cold summer. From the Italian by Verena v. Koskull, Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2018. 350 pp. ISBN 978-3-442-31228-3 .

Trivia

In 2006, Carofiglio worked with Tatort actor Jan Josef Liefers for author readings in Germany .

Web links

Commons : Gianrico Carofiglio  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Gianrico Carofiglio in the catalog of the German National Library
• Gianrico Carofiglio in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Michaela Pelz: Exclusive interview with Gianrico Carofiglio. At krimiforum.de ,. (No longer available online.) March 2006, archived from the original on October 21, 2007 ; Retrieved July 12, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   
2. ↑ Dirk Schümer: In Apulia we have the gangsters under control. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . February 26, 2008, accessed July 12, 2013 .  
3. ^ Antimafia lawyer honored as a crime writer. Internet article at Radio Bremen . (No longer available online.) October 2, 2008, archived from the original on February 2, 2011 ; Retrieved February 25, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   
4. ↑ Una mutevole verità. Review (in German) at books reviews. July 12, 2014, accessed March 28, 2015 .  
5. ^ Crime novel "Cold Peace": Everything in the gray area , FAZ from July 13, 2018, accessed July 14, 2018