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2011 Raymond Chandler Award to Andrea Camilleri and Petros Markaris |
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| 29/07/2011 |
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The 2011 Raymond Chandler Award, the top literary honors of the Courmayeur Noir in Festival, which in past years has gone to renowned writers such as John le Carré, John Grisham and Michael Connelly, this years brings together two of the most eminent figures of European literature: Andrea Camilleri and Petros Markaris.
For the 21st edition of the Courmayeur Noir in Festival, to be held in December at the foot of Mont Blanc, the 2011 Raymond Chandler Award for a literary career pays dual homage to two great masters of the genre that have much in common, beginning with their Mediterranean cultural backgrounds. Andrea Camilleri and Petros Markaris, both seduced by stories told in images, have alternated their successful crime novels with television and film screenplays, and share not only the genre and the characteristic traits of their respective literary heroes, the Sicilian Salvo Montalbano and the Greek Kostas Charitos, but above all a political approach, with crime stories that expose what is rotten and corrupt throughout all of society.
The comparison between the two great authors moreover emphasizes just one of the characteristics of the Courmayeur Noir in Festival, which include attention to the crime novel’s social dimension, a debate of ideas, and an examination of the great civic themes of our era, which have always been dear to both Camilleri and Markaris.
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