Giorgio Todde (17 September 1951 – 29 July 2020) was an Italian writer of crime novels.
Biography
Todde started his career as a surgeon and ophthalmologist in
Cagliari
Cagliari (, also , , ; sc, Casteddu ; lat, Caralis) is an Italian municipality and the capital of the island of Sardinia, an autonomous region of Italy. Cagliari's Sardinian name ''Casteddu'' means ''castle''. It has about 155,000 inhabitant ...
. He participated in the
Sardinian Literary Spring Sardinian Literary Spring is a definition of the whole body of the literature produced in Sardinia from around the 1980s onwards.
History
About the denomination
Sardinian Literary Spring, also known as Sardinian Literary Nouvelle Vague, is a de ...
and influence of 19th-century
Sardinia
Sardinia ( ; it, Sardegna, label=Italian, Corsican and Tabarchino ; sc, Sardigna , sdc, Sardhigna; french: Sardaigne; sdn, Saldigna; ca, Sardenya, label=Algherese and Catalan) is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after ...
. Published in 2002, ''Lo stalo delle anime'', his first novel, is a historical thriller set in 1893 which features the doctor Efisio Marini. Marini was a historical character who really existed and invented a method of petrifying bodies. Marini was a recurrence in Todde's works, as he was featured in ''Paura e carne'', ''E quale amor non-cambia'', and ''L’estremo delle cose''. Todde also created another crime investigator named Manlio Ferfuzio, who appeared in ''La matta bestialità''.
Giorgio Todde died on 29 July 2020, in Cagliari at the age of 68.
Novels
*''Lo stato delle anime'' (2002)
*''La matta bestialità'' (2002)
*''Paura e carne'' (2003)
*''L'occhiata letale'' (2004)
*''Ei'' (2004)
*''E quale amor non-cambia'' (2005)
*''Al caffè del silenzio'' (2007)
*''L'estremo delle cose'' (2007)
*''Dieci gocce'' (2009)
*''Il noce. Scritti sull'isola rinnegata'' (2010)
*''Le Indigani dell’imbalsamatore'' (2011)
*''Lettera ultima'' (2013)
References
Italian male writers
1951 births
2020 deaths
People from Cagliari
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