Carlo Fruttero

Carlo Fruttero
Born(1926-09-19)19 September 1926
Turin, Kingdom of Italy
Died15 January 2012(2012-01-15) (aged 85)
Roccamare, Castiglione della Pescaia, Italy
Resting placeGarden cemetery of Castiglione della Pescaia
Pen nameF&L (together with Franco Lucentini)
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • journalist
  • translator
  • editor
Period1961–2012
Genre

Carlo Fruttero (19 September 1926 – 15 January 2012) was an Italian writer, journalist, translator and editor of anthologies.

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]

  1. ^ "Addio allo scrittore Carlo Fruttero" [Goodbye to the writer Carlo Fruttero]. Corriere della Sera (in Italian). 15 January 2012.