Massimo Carlotto

Massimo Carlotto, 2009

Massimo Carlotto (born July 22, 1956 in Padua ) is an Italian author who mainly writes detective novels . He was a member of the militant association Lotta Continua . From 1976 to 1993 he was at the center of lengthy and controversial court cases on charges of murder.

Life

The "Carlotto Case"

Before his career as a writer, Carlotto was at the center of one of the most controversial court cases in Italian history. He was on the run for five years, 11 trials were brought against him, he was imprisoned for six years, 86 judges and 50 experts were busy with his case.

In 1976, Carlotto found the murdered student Margherita Magello in her apartment in Padua. A lawsuit began against him in which he was initially declared innocent on the basis of the evidence. In 1978 a court in Venice sentenced him to 18 years in prison. Carlotto fled, first to Paris, then to Mexico . Three years later he was captured by Mexican police and extradited to Italy, where he was imprisoned. In 1989 the Court of Cassation ordered the case to be reopened. A series of trials, prison terms, convictions and revisions followed. In the meantime, there was so much public pressure that the verdict was overturned in 1993 and Carlotto was pardoned on the basis of a decision by Italian President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro .

writer

After his release he published his first novel, Il fuggiasco ("The Refugee"), in which he reflects on his own experiences. Then he began a series of novels about the "detective without a license" Marco Burrati.

Novels

• 1995 Il fuggiasco
  • The refugee , German by Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel, Stuttgart: Tropen 2010. ISBN 978-3-608-50205-3
• 1996 La verità dell'alligatore
  • The truth of the alligator , German by Barbara Kleiner, Munich: Lichtenberg 2000. ISBN 3-785-28105-6
• 1997 Il mistero di mangiabarche
  • The beauty and the alligator , German by Barbara Kleiner, Munich: Lichtenberg 2001. ISBN 3-785-28119-6
• 1999 Le irregolari
• 1999 Nessuna cortesia all'uscita
• 2000 Il corriere Colombiano
• 2001 Arrivederci amore, ciao
  • Arrivederci amore, ciao , German by Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel; Berlin: Tropen 2007. ISBN 978-3-932170-94-2
• 2002 Il maestro di nodi
• 2004 L'oscura immensità della morte
  • The dark immensity of death , German by Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel; Berlin: Tropen 2008. ISBN 978-3-608-00398-7
• 2004 Niente, più niente al mondo
• 2005 Nordest (with Marco Videta)
  • Where the lemons bloom , German by Judith Elze; Berlin: Tropen 2009. ISBN 978-3-608-50203-9
• 2006 La terra della mia anima
• 2007 Mi fido di te (with Francesco Abate)
  • I trust you , German from Ulrich Hartmann; Munich: Bertelsmann 2009. ISBN 978-3-570-01096-9
• 2007 L'alligatore
• 2008 Cristiani di Allah
• 2008 Perdas de Fogu (with Mama Abot)
  • Deadly dust. German translation by Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel, Stuttgart: Tropen 2012, ISBN 978-3608502077
• 2009 L'albero dei microchip (with Francesco Abate)
• 2009 L'amore del bandito
  • Banditenliebe , German by Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel, Tropen, Stuttgart 2011. ISBN 978-3-608-50209-1
• 2010 Alla fine di un giorno noioso
  • At the end of a dreary day , in German by Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel, Katharina Schmidt and Barbara Neeb, Stuttgart: Tropen 2016, ISBN 978-3-608-50137-7
• 2012 Respiro corto
  • The Marseille-Connection , German by Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel, Stuttgart: Tropen 2013, ISBN 978-3-608501346 .
• 2013 Cocaina (with Gianrico Carofiglio and Giancarlo De Cataldo) Einaudi, Torino 2013
  • Cocaine. Crime Stories. German by Karin Fleischanderl. Vienna / Bozen: Folio Verlag 2013, ISBN 978-3-85256-628-3
• 2016 Il turista . Rizzoli, Milan 2016.
  • The tourist. Thriller. German by Monika Lustig and Cathrine Hornung. Vienna / Bozen: Folio Verlag 2017, ISBN 978-3-85256-728-0
• 2017 Blues per cuori fuorilegge e vecchie puttane . Edizioni e / o, Rome 2017
  • Blues for mild scoundrels and old whores: a case for the alligator . German by Ingrid Ickler. Vienna / Bozen: Folio Verlag 2019, ISBN 978-3852567723

Awards

• 2002 Premio Giorgio Scerbanenco for Il maestro di nodi
• 2008 Crime of the year 2007 (7th place) in the KrimiWelt best list for Arrivederci amore, ciao (Original: Arrivederci amore, ciao)

Web links

• Massimo Carlotto's website
• Biography at Hammett-krimis.de
• Massimo Carlotto on krimi-couch.de
• Short biography and reviews of works by Massimo Carlotto at perlentaucher.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Süddeutsche.de 2010