Carlo Fruttero

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.

• Name — Carlo Fruttero • Pen Name — F&L (together with Franco Lucentini) • Born — 19 September 1926 • Birthplace — Turin, Kingdom of Italy • Died — 15 January 2012 • Place of death — Roccamare, Castiglione della Pescaia, Italy • Occupation — * Novelist • journalist • translator • editor • Period — 1961–2012 • Genre — * Mainstream fiction • crime fiction • Resting Place — Garden cemetery of Castiglione della Pescaia

• Il secondo libro della fantascienza (1961; the first of several successful anthologies of science fiction short stories edited by F&L; The second science fiction book) • L'idraulico non verrà (1971; poetry collection; The plumber will not come) • La donna della domenica (1972, translated into English by William Weaver as The Sunday Woman in 1973; the first and most famous novel by F&L, and one of the first examples of Italian crime novels) • L'Italia sotto il tallone di F&L (1974; a humorous political fantasy in which Fruttero & Lucentini become dictators of Italy with the help of Muammar al-Gaddafi; the novel was inspired by the actual harsh reaction of the embassy of Libya to a satirical article by F&L in La Stampa, very critical of Gaddafi; Italy under F[ruttero] & L[ucentini]'s heel) • Il significato dell'esistenza (1974; The meaning of existence) • A che punto è la notte (1979; crime novel; What of the night, as in the Bible, Isaiah 21:11). • La cosa in sé (1982; play "in two acts and a licence" about a man who realises that solipsism is real and all the universe is created by his mind; The thing in itself, as in the philosophical term) • Il Palio delle contrade morte (1983, The Palio of the dead quarters) • Ti trovo un po' pallida (1983; a ghost story set in sunny Tuscany, originally appeared in the L'Espresso magazine in 1979; it was actually written by Fruttero alone, as explained in the afterword to the 2007 edition; You look quite pale) • La prevalenza del cretino (1985; a collection of "L'Agenda di F. & L." columns form the newspaper La Stampa, about all forms of stupidity; The supremacy of the cretin) • Il colore del destino (1987; collection of three novellas: Notizie dagli scavi (by Lucentini) and Ti trovo un po' pallida (by Fruttero), already published, and Il colore del destino (written jointly); it is the only book by the two authors having the byline "Lucentini & Fruttero" rather than "Fruttero & Lucentini"; The colour of destiny) • La verità sul caso D (1989, translated into English by Gregory Dowling as The D. Case: or The Truth about the Mystery of Edwin Drood; a completion and elaboration on Dickens' The Mystery of Edwin Drood; The truth on the D case) • L'amante senza fissa dimora (1986; a novel about a successful Italian woman meeting a mysterious man in romantic Venice: an apparently standard love story with a twist; published in English by Chatto & Windus in 1999 as "No fixed abode") • Storie americane di guerra (1991, editor; anthology of "American war stories") • Enigma in luogo di mare (1991; crime novel set in a seaside community in Tuscany; Riddle in a sea town) • Il ritorno del cretino (1992; more columns from "La Stampa"; The comeback of the cretin) • Breve storia delle vacanze (1994; Short history of vacations) • La morte di Cicerone (1995; Cicero's death) • Il nuovo libro dei nomi di battesimo (1998; a non-fiction handbook about how to choose a name for a son, with amusing information and trivia on names' meaning and use) • Il cretino in sintesi (2002; still more columns from "La Stampa"; The cretin in synthesis) • Viaggio di nozze al Louvre (2002; Honeymoon at the Louvre) • I nottambuli (2002; The nightwalkers) • I ferri del mestiere (2003; a collection of articles and short stories edited by Domenico Scarpa; The tools of the trade)