Pino Cacucci

Pino Cacucci (right)

Pino Cacucci (* 1955 in Alessandria ) is a versatile Italian author who works as a journalist, novelist, screenwriter and translator and has written several thrillers, historical novels, novel biographies, short stories and travel books about Mexico and South America.

biography

Cacucci grew up in Chiavari . In 1975 he moved to Bologna and enrolled in the DAMS faculty ( D iscipline delle A rti, della M usica e dello S pettacolo , disciplines of art, music and spectacle) at the university there. At the beginning of the 1980s he lived partly in Paris and partly in Barcelona for a long time . He undertook extensive trips to Latin America, especially to Mexico, where he also settled for a long time.

In addition to his own writing activities, Cacucci also works as a translator into Italian for several Spanish and Latin American authors such as Javier Cercas , Francisco Coloane , José Manuel Fajardo , Santiago Gamboa , Manuel Rivas and Paco Ignacio Taibo II . Some of his books are now also available in German.

His novel Puerto Escondido was made into a film by Gabriele Salvatores in 1992 . In 1995 a film adaptation of his novel San Isidro Futbòl was made under the title Viva San Isidro, directed by Alessandro Cappelletti .

Awards

Cacucci's novel Demasiado corazón was awarded the Premio Giorgio Scerbanenco for the best Italian detective novel of the year at the Noir In Festival in Courmayeur in 1999.

Works

Original editions

• Outland rock , Transeuropa 1988, Mondadori 1991
• Puerto Escondido (novel), Interno Giallo 1990, new edition by Mondadori
• Tina , Interno Giallo 1991, new editions at TEA and Feltrinelli
• San Isidro Futbòl , Granata Press 1991, Feltrinelli 1996
• Punti di fuga , Mondadori 1992, Feltrinelli 2000
• La polvere del Messico , Mondadori 1992, Feltrinelli 1996, revised edition by Feltrinelli 2004
• Forfora ( short stories), Granata Press 1993, expanded new edition under the title Forfora e altre sventure by Feltrinelli 1997
• In ogni caso nessun rimorso , Longanesi 1994, new editions by TEA and Feltrinelli 2001
• Camminando. Incontri con un viandante , Feltrinelli 1996
• Demasiado corazón , Feltrinelli 1999
• Ribelli! , Feltrinelli 2001
• Gracias México , Feltrinelli 2001
• Mastruzzi indaga , Feltrinelli 2002
• Oil income , 2003
• Tobacco together with Gloria Corica and Otto Gabos , Bande Dessinée 2005
• Nahui 2005

German translations

• Outland Rock. 5 powerful thrillers . Translated by Jürgen Bauer. Zurich: Diogenes 1989. ISBN 3-257-01827-4 ; Zurich: Diogenes TB 1991. ISBN 3-257-21973-3
• Puerto Escondido (novel). Translated by Ulrich Hartmann. Zurich: Diogenes 1993. ISBN 3257019572
• Tina Modotti. A fragile life in times of absolute certainty . Translated by Michaela Wunderle. Frankfurt (Main): New Critique Verlag 1989. ISBN 3-8015-0227-9 ; Tina. Tina Modotti's adventurous life . Translated by Karin Krieger. Zurich: Diogenes 1993. ISBN 3-257-01968-8
• A miracle at the end of the world . Translated by Christiane Winkler. Frankfurt (Main): Krüger 2002. ISBN 3-8105-0380-0 ; Frankfurt (Main): Fischer TB 2003. ISBN 3-596-15816-8
• Flying high: Mexico . Translated by Birte Völker. Wiesbaden: White Star Verlag 2007. ISBN 978-3-86726-012-1
• Better aim at the heart . Translated by Andreas Löhrer. Hamburg: Edition Nautilus 2010. ISBN 978-3-89401-722-4

Filmography

• Il commissario Corso (screenplay, with Gloria Corica and Marco Videtta ), television series in nine parts, directed by Gianni Lepre and Alberto Sironi , 1987
• Puerto Escondido (novel), directed by Gabriele Salvatores , 1992
• Viva San Isidro (novel, screenplay), directed by Alessandro Cappelletti , 1995
• Nirvana - Hunt in Cyberspace (screenplay, with Gloria Corica and Gabriele Salvatores), director: Gabriele Salvatores, 1997

Web links

• librialice.it Interview (Italian)
• Pino Cacucci in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Pino Cacucci in the catalog of the German National Library