Carlo Lucarelli

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Carlo Lucarelli (Parma, October 26, 1960-) is an Italian crime-writer, TV presenter, and magazine editor. He was shortlisted for the Gold Dagger in 2003 for Almost Blue.

[edit] Biography

Not much is known of Carlo Lucarelli, other than that he was the son of a physician, that he was interested in literature and theatre when he was young, and that he studied Literature and History. Nowadays he lives in Mordano near Bologna. He prefers not to disclose anything more about his private life. He is fascinated with sinister scenes and stories like those of Edgar Allan Poe. He gets along with Eraldo Baldini, who is known as the Italian master of the Roman Noir. 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 fascism and the years immediately after the war. In Italy he became well known quite soon because of these two books, and it was only a matter of time before he quitted his academic activities and turned to his career as an author and all other sorts of activities, such as writing plays, film scenarios, radio-plays and, moreover, singing miserably (his own words!) in a Post-Punk-Band called "Progetto K". He is a frequently invited moderator on an Italian television program about crime (Blu notte misteri d'Italia). As a journalist he works for several newspapers and magazines, such as Il Manifesto, Il Messaggero and L’Europeo. He has written more than twenty novels and numerous short stories. Together with Marcello Fois and Loriano Macchiavelli he founded "Gruppo 13", a collective of crime-writers in the region Emilia-Romagna.