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Raymond Chandler
Award 2012
goes to Don Winslow |
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| 13/12/2012 |
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He was born on Halloween, he lives in San Diego, he loves Africa , which he criss-crossed also as a safari guide, and America, of which he has narrated illusions and the discovery of disenchantment. He was a private investigator, a jack of all trades, he wrote for TV and cinema, he made a literary myth like the legendary Trevanian come alive again and he was above all himself, an unmistakable writer with a narrative vein that is dry and ironic, daring and lucid. He gave life to unforgettable characters, like detective Art, a ruthless narcos hunter, the – so to speak - quiet pensioner Frankie Machine, the magnificent four of Dawn Patrol and wild Ben, Chon and O of Savages and Kings of Cool.
The Raymond Chandler Award 2012 goes to a writer who is universally regarded as one of the masters of contemporary American crime story, but who promises to surprise us more and more by setting his stories, that play on the border between California and Mexico, in an even more boundless territory: the realm of contemporary human spirit.
The Raymond Chandler Award goes to Don Winslow. |
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