Carlo Fruttero
Italian writer, journalist, translator and editor / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Carlo Fruttero (19 September 1926 – 15 January 2012) was an Italian writer, journalist, translator and editor of anthologies.
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Born | (1926-09-19)19 September 1926 Turin, Kingdom of Italy |
Died | 15 January 2012(2012-01-15) (aged 85) Roccamare, Castiglione della Pescaia, Italy |
Resting place | Garden cemetery of Castiglione della Pescaia |
Pen name | F&L (together with Franco Lucentini) |
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Period | 1961–2012 |
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Fruttero was born in Turin, Italy. He is mostly known for his joint work with Franco Lucentini, especially as authors of crime novels. The duo were also editors of the science-fiction series Urania from the 1960s to the 1980s, and of the comic-strip magazine Il Mago.
Fruttero died in Roccamare, Castiglione della Pescaia, in 2012, aged 85.[1]