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| 03/12/2011 |
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The Courmayeur Noir in Festival has yet again prepared a taut line-up of Conversations with this year’s hosted writers. A line-up that touches upon one of our dearest themes – the possibility of using genre literature, both fiction and non-fiction, as a tool for understanding the present. Such as Mafias on the Move by Federico Varese, who spent 10 years researching how “a criminal organization that controls access to markets and territories through the use of violence,” rooted in a specific territory, can replicate itself beyond its national borders. Or WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy, by The Guardian journalists Luke Daniel Harding and David Leigh, that looks both at Assange’s personal life and the methods behind the scoop of the century: the publication of thousands of classified political, financial and diplomatic files.
Chris Morgan Jones will present An Agent of Deceit, a spy story from a real-life former spy whose work for Kroll, of the world’s largest private investigation firms, brought him in close contact with numerous underworld undesirables. Debut writer will talk about Stephen Kelman will talk about his Pigeon English (shortlisted for the Booker Prize), which blends reality with fiction, both in terms of the plot (based on the actual murder of a young boy whose family emigrated to London) as well as the author’s upbringing on a council estate.
This new generation of authors is naturally flanked by some masters, such as Otto Penzler, who the Festival is most proud to host this year. A brilliant writer, he is above all, with his Mysterious Bookshop, a generous and sophisticated publisher to whom we owe dozens of noir anthologies, including The Millennium Thriller. Many authors have passed through his New York City bookshop, including Lawrence Block, who this year in Courmayeur is presenting A Drop of the Hard Stuff (the latest adventure of ex-cop and ex-alcoholic Matthew Scudder) and is also on the Competition jury. |
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