Carlo Lucarelli (born 26 October 1960) is an Italian crime-writer,
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in 2003 for the novel ''Almost Blue''.

Early life

Lucarelli was born at

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, the son of a physician. He was interested in literature and theatre when he was young, and studied Literature and History. Already in his years of study, during his research for his thesis subject he got in touch with the material for his first two books, which take place during the time of

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and the years immediately after the war.

Career

In Italy he became well-known quite soon because of these two books, and it was only a matter of time before he quit his academic activities and turned to his career as an author and all other sorts of literary activities, such as writing plays, film scenarios, radio-plays and, moreover, singing in a Post-Punk-Band called "Progetto K". For a time he was the presenter of a popular Italian television programme about crime (''Blu notte misteri d'Italia'', Blue Night Mysteries of Italy). As a journalist he has worked for several newspapers and magazines, such as '' il manifesto'', ''

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'' and ''L'Europeo''. He has written more than twenty novels and numerous short stories. Together with Marcello Fois and

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he founded "Gruppo 13", a collective of crime-writers in the region of

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. Lucarelli co-wrote the scripts of '' Detective De Luca''. A crime fiction TV series released in 2008, it was adapted from his trilogy of novels set in the time of Italy's fascist history during the years from 1938 to 1948.

Bibliography

Incomplete, English translations only. For full bibliography see the

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page.

The De Luca Trilogy

* ''Carte Blanche'' (Carta bianca, 1990) * ''The Damned Season'' (L'estate torbida, 1991) * ''Via Delle Oche'' (1996)

The Inspector Grazia Negro Series

* ''Almost Blue'' (1997) * ''Day After Day'' (Un giorno dopo l'altro, 2000)

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lucarelli, Carlo 1960 births Living people Writers from Parma Italian crime fiction writers Italian male writers Italian television personalities Italian journalists Italian male journalists