NOIRMENU 2011   2012 EDITION   • Home   • News   • Photogallery   • Program   • Cinema   • Literature		08/12/2011  Childhoods regained Troy Nixey and Frederic Schoendoerffer and their cinematic inspirations The eyes of Troy Nixey and Frederic Schoendoerffer, directors of Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark and Switch respectively, light up when they talk about their ...  08/12/2011  Italian Noir Four diverse Italian authors prove that Italian literature offers an absolutely variegated landscape. Andrea Genio Pinketts presented his latest, Depilando Pilar, set in Milan, a city plagued by venereal warts in ...  08/12/2011  "Black" Block, or radical noir Conversation with Lawrence Block and Otto Penzler The definition of noir literature has been a longtime point of discussion. New York-based writer-editor Otto Penzler (founder of The Mysterious Press publishing company) tried to give an answer here in Courmayeur, where he is presenting his new ...  08/12/2011  Lost childhoods in 1970s Sweden Conversing with Thomas Kanger Thomas Kanger is proof that noir writers increasingly draw upon reality, as is his 2002 documentary on the physical and mental abuses that children were subject to, from 1955 to 1975, in so-called “children’s home.” His work sparked a national ...  08/12/2011  Raymond Chandler Award Interview with Petros Markaris by Rosa Polacco, from the catalogue of the 21st Courmayeur Noir in Festival You studied economics, translated Goethe and have often said that your teacher was Bertolt Brecht. Do these three aspects of your background have ...		HIGHLIGHTS   Palmares The international film jury, comprising American writer Lawrence Block (president), French publisher François Guerif, Italian actors Carolina Crescentini, Vinicio Marchioni and director ...