Gianrico Carofiglio is a novelist and former anti-Mafia judge in the Italian

Italy

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 city of Bari

Bari

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. His debut novel

Debut novel

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, Involuntary Witness

Involuntary Witness

Involuntary Witness is a legal thriller by Italian writer Gianrico Carofiglio, published originally in 2002 and translated into English by Patrick Creagh in 2005.-Plot summary:...

, was published in 2002 and translated into English in 2005 by Patrick Creagh and published by the Bitter Lemon Press

Bitter Lemon Press

Bitter Lemon Press is a small London-based independent publisher, set up by Francois von Hurter in 2003 which specialises in translated literary crime novels and romans noirs from abroad. They currently publish novels by authors such as Gianrico Carofiglio, the famous Swiss crime-writer Friedrich...

 and has been adapted as the basis for a popular television series in Italy. The subsequent novels were translated by Howard Curtis.

Carofiglio won the 2005 Premio Bancarella

Premio Bancarella

The Premio Bancarella is an Italian literary prize established in 1953; it is given in Pontremoli every year, the last Saturday or the last Sunday in July....

 award for his novel "Il passato è una terra straniera". He is also Honorary President of The Edinburgh Gadda Prize which celebrates the work of Carlo Emilio Gadda

Carlo Emilio Gadda

Carlo Emilio Gadda was an Italian writer and poet. He belongs to the tradition of the language innovators, writers that played with the somewhat stiff standard pre-war Italian language, and added elements of dialects, technical jargon and wordplay.-Biography:Gadda was a practising engineer from...

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The Past is a Foreign Country

The Past is a Foreign Country is the English language title of the 2004 novel Il passato è una terra straniera by Italian author Gianrico Carofiglio. It won the 2005 Premio Bancarella

Premio Bancarella

The Premio Bancarella is an Italian literary prize established in 1953; it is given in Pontremoli every year, the last Saturday or the last Sunday in July....

 literary award. It has been translated into English

English language

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Guido Guerrieri

• Involuntary Witness
  Involuntary Witness
  Involuntary Witness is a legal thriller by Italian writer Gianrico Carofiglio, published originally in 2002 and translated into English by Patrick Creagh in 2005.-Plot summary:...
  
  - 2005 (Testimone Inconsapevole)
• A Walk in the Dark - 2006 (Ad Occhi Chiusi)
• Reasonable Doubts - 2007 (Ragionevoli Dubbi)
• Temporary Perfections -

External links

• Carofiglio's official site (in Italian)
• The Edinburgh Gadda Prize