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American writer Don Winslow receives 2012 Raymond Chandler Award |
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| 25/09/2012 |
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The Raymond Chandler Award – the top literary lifetime achievement award to a master of the genre that which for over 20 years has been presented by the Courmayeur Noir in Festival to such great writers as John le Carré, John Grisham and Michael Connelly, to name but a few – this year goes to one of the leading figures of American literature: Don Winslow.
A member of the Festival’s 2008 film jury, Don Winslow will return to Courmayeur from December 10-16 to receive the Raymond Chandler Award for a dazzling writing career spent depicting the intense humanity of crime and the marginalized, from Mafiosos to the disenchanted ideals of the California dream, in a style that owes much to cinema. Hollywood has in fact paid tribute to Winslow with Oliver Stone’s adaptation of his recent bestseller, Savages, to be released in Italy on October 25 as Le belve. Winslow co-wrote the script of the film, which is highly anticipated in Italy.
“I’ve always believed in a powerful osmosis between noir and cinema,” says Winslow, “and personally I think that my writing style was very much influenced by the big screen. Unconsciously, because I grew up with movies; consciously, because I’ve been contaminated by the works of directors such as Truffaut, Fellini and John Woo. Films like 8 ˝ and La Strada encouraged me to take risks with the creative structure of my novels, especially The Savages.”
Italian publisher Einaudi has announced it will release the Savages prequel, The Kings of Cool (I re del mondo), on October 23. The book was released in the US in July to great critical and public acclaim.
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