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The 2007 Raymond Chandler Award Goes to Scott Turow |
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| 06/12/2007 |
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The directors and expert committee of the 17th Courmayeur Noir in Festival were motivated to present the 2007 Raymond Chandler Award to Scott Turow for the following reasons:
From Presumed Innocent to Burden of Proof, The Laws of Our Fathers to Reversible Errors, Ordinary Heroes to Limitations, Scott Turow has constructed, within the grand context of narrative literature, a mosaic of the modern human drama.
His novels not only satisfy the pleasures of suspense, but are portraits and in-depth analyses of a world faced with fundamental issues such as the machine of justice and power, father-son relationships, the very sense of justice, moral indifference, the ambiguity of memory, and the absolute right to life, the latter articulated through a rational rather than moral stance against capital punishment.
His powerful voice conveys in a manner that is simultaneously popular and refined the great questions and few answers of our era.
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