- Carlo Fruttero
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name = Carlo Fruttero
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pseudonym = F&L (together withFranco Lucentini )
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birthplace =Turin ,Italy
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occupation = novelist, journalist, translator, editor
nationality = Italian
period = 1961—
genre = mainstream fiction, crime fiction
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website =Carlo Fruttero (born
19 September 1926 inTurin ) is an Italianwriter ,journalist , translator and editor of anthologies. He is mostly known for his joint work withFranco Lucentini , especially as authors of crime novels. The duo was also editor of the science fiction series "Urania" from the 1960s to the 1980s.__NOTOC__
Bibliography
Alone
*"Volti a perdere" (1999)
*"Visibilità zero" (1999)
*"Donne informate sui fatti" (2006)with Franco Lucentini
* "Il secondo libro della fantascienza", Einaudi, 1961 - The first of several successful anthologies of
science fiction short stories edited by F&L
* "L'idraulico non verrà", Mario Spagnol, 1971 (republished by Nuovo Melangolo in 1993) - Poetry collection (literally, "The plumber will not come")
* "La donna della domenica ", Mondadori, 1972 (translated into English byWilliam Weaver as "The Sunday Woman" in 1973) - The first and most famous novel by F&L, and one of the first examples of Italian crime novels
* "L'Italia sotto il tallone di F&L", Mondadori, 1974 - A humorous political fantasy in which Fruttero & Lucentini become dictators of Italy with the help ofMuammar al-Gaddafi ; the novel was inspired by the real, very harsh reaction of the embassy ofLibya to a satirical article by F&L in "La Stampa", very critical of Gaddafi (lit., "Italy under F [ruttero] & L [ucentini] 's heel")
* "Il significato dell'esistenza", 1974 (republished by Tea in 1997) - (lit., "The meaning of existence")
* "A che punto è la notte", Mondadori, 1979 - Crime novel (lit., "What of the night", as in the Biblebook of Isaiah , 22:11)
* "La cosa in sé", Einaudi, 1982 - Play "in two acts and a licence" about a man who relises thatsolipsism is real and all the universe is created by his mind (lit., "The thing in itself", as in the philosophical term)
* "Il Palio delle contrade morte", Mondadori, 1983 - (lit., "ThePalio of the dead quarters")
* "Ti trovo un po' pallida", 1983 - A ghost story set in sunnyTuscany , originally appeared in theL'Espresso magazine in 1979; it was actually written by Fruttero alone, as explained in the afterword to 2007 volume edition (lit., "You look quite pale")
* "La prevalenza del cretino", Mondadori, 1985 - A collection of "L'Agenda di F. & L." columns form the newspaper "La Stampa ", about all forms of stupidity (lit., "The supremacy of the stupid")
* "La verità sul caso D", Einaudi, 1989 (translated into English by Gregory Dowling as "The D. Case: Or The Truth About The Mystery Of Edwin Drood") - A completion and elaboration onDickens 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood (lit., "The truth on the D case")
* "L'amante senza fissa dimora", Mondadori, 1990 - A successful Italian woman meets a mysterious man in romantic Venice: an apparently standard love story with a twist (lit., "The lover of no fixed abode")
* "Storie americane di guerra", Einaudi, 1991 - Anthology of "American war stories"
* "Enigma in luogo di mare", Mondadori, 1991 - Crime novel set in a seaside community in Tuscany (lit., "Riddle in a sea town")
* "Il ritorno del cretino", Mondadori, 1992 - More columns from "La Stampa" (lit., "The comeback of the stupid")
* "Breve storia delle vacanze", Mondadori, 1994 - (lit., "Short history of vacations")
* "La morte di Cicerone", Nuovo Melangolo, 1995 - (lit., "Cicero's death")
* "Il nuovo libro dei nomi di battesimo", Mondadori, 1998 - A non-fiction handbook about how to choose a name for a son, with amusing information and trivia on names' meaning and use
* "Il cretino in sintesi", Mondadori, 2002 - Still more columns from "La Stampa" (lit., "The stupid in synthesis")
* "Viaggio di nozze al Louvre", Allemandi, 2002 - (lit., "Honeymoon at Louvre")
* "I nottambuli", Avagliano, 2002 - (lit., "The nightwalkers")
* "I ferri del mestiere", Einaudi, 2003 - A collection of articles and short stories edited by Domenico Scarpa (lit., "The tools of the trade")References
*Part of the content of this article comes from [http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Fruttero the equivalent Italian-language wikipedia article] (retrieved
22 January ,2007 ).External links
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NAME = Fruttero, Carlo
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SHORT DESCRIPTION = Italian writer
DATE OF BIRTH =19 September 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH =Turin
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