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We are pleased to have invited the best-selling author Gianrico Carofiglio, who turned to fiction after many years as a senator, a prosecutor, and an advisor of the anti-Mafia committee in the Italian parliament. Compared to Philip Marlowe and John Grisham, Carofiglio is best known for the Guido Guerrieri series, featuring a contemplative hero with a discriminating taste for good food, described by the Financial Times as “hard-boiled and sun-dried in equal parts.”
For this occasion, he speaks with Giorgio Biancorosso (Professor, School of Humanities, HKU) about his latest novel, The Measure of Time, at once a tense courtroom drama and a tale of passion, and takes us behind the scenes in the fight against organised crime in Italy.
The event will be conducted in English.
The author will appear virtually.
This event is part of the Italia Mia Festival.
Gianrico Carofiglio
Gianrico Carofiglio was born in Bari. He has long been a public prosecutor, specialising in investigations into organised crime. In 2007 he was appointed consultant to the Anti-Mafia Parliamentary Commission and from 2008 to 2013 he was a Senator of the Republic. He made his debut in fiction with Testimone inconsapevole in 2002, in which he introduced the character of the lawyer Guido Guerrieri, the protagonist of six novels, including La misura del tempo, a finalist for the Strega Prize in 2020. With over six million copies sold, he is the author of novels, short stories and essays translated worldwide and read by him in audio books. His most recent titles are the essay La nuova manomissione delle parole (2021) and the crime novel La disciplina di Penelope (2021). His many awards include the 2005 Bancarella Prize for Il passato è una terra straniera, the 2010 Selezione Campiello Prize for Le perfezioni provvisorie, and the 2014 Scerbanenco Prize for Una mutevole verità, the first appearance of Marshal Pietro Fenoglio. Since February 2021 the podcast with his daughter Giorgia, Coffee for Two, is available on the website www.editorialedomani.it.