Marcello Fois

Marcello Fois (2008)

Marcello Fois (born January 20, 1960 in Nuoro , Nuoro Province ) is an Italian writer from Sardinia .

Life

Fois currently (2010) lives in Bologna as a crime novelist . Together with his colleagues Carlo Lucarelli and Loriano Macchiavelli , Fois founded the Gruppo 13 , a kind of literary cooperative of authors from Emilia-Romagna ( northern Italy ).

Works (selection)

Scripts

• Andrea Frazzi (Director): Certi Bambini. 2004.

stories

• The sufferings of Commissario Curreli. Roman ("Piccole storie nere"). List-Taschenbuchverlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-548-60533-3 .
• Nulla . Il Maestrale, Nuoro 1999, ISBN 88-8610-924-5 .

Novels

• Better than dead. Roman ("Meglio morti"). Scherz-Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-502-51741-X .
• The blue tongue. A case for Avvocato Bustianu; Roman ("L'altro Mondo"). Heyne, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-453-87366-1 .
• Sky blood. A case for Avvocato Bustianu; Roman ("Sangue del cielo"). diana-Verlag, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-453-17725-8 .
• Sardinian vendetta. Detective novel ("La memoria del vuoto"). List-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-548-68078-1 .
• Sheol. Roman ("Sheol"). List-Taschenbuchverlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-548-68070-5 .
• The beautiful Mercede and the master blacksmith. A Sardinian novel ("Stirpe"), translated by Monika Lustig. Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-8218-6243-9 ( The other library ; 318).
• A thousand steps. a case for Avvocato Bustianu; Roman ("Semper caro"). Diana-Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-453-17142-X .
• Death washes everything clean. Roman ("Dura madre"). List-Taschenbuchverlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-548-60456-0 .
• Between the Times ("Nel tempo di mezzo"), Berlin: AB - The Other Library 2014, ISBN 978-3-8477-0353-2 .

Honors

• 1997 Premio Italo Calvino for the anthology Nulla .
• 1998 Premio Scerbanenco for the novel A Thousand Steps .
• 2002 Premio Fedeli for the novel Death washes everything clean .
• 2007 Premio Lama e trama for his previous work.

Web links

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