He spoke to the audience of "Sharjah Book" about his police novels

Carlo Lucarelli: Crime rates decreased during quarantine

Italian novelist Carlo Lucarelli: I started writing at the age of 13.

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Readers often ask questions about the sources that inspire writers of thrillers, detective novels, and crime literature, about the things that affect them, and whether their novels are based on real crimes that happen on the ground, or are they scenarios from their imagination.

To answer these questions, the activities of the 39th edition of the Sharjah International Book Fair hosted the Italian novelist Carlo Lucarelli in a virtual session on the Sharjah Reads platform, moderated by Leila Mohammed.

Lucarelli said that crime rates have decreased significantly during the quarantine period in Italy, and that living within the confines of the walls of homes for a long time has changed people's lives, and will eventually be reflected in writing.

Lucarelli pointed out that his 11 novels portray the dark side of his country, and that his sources of inspiration in presenting historical facts and facts in the style of the police novel vary according to the bodies for which he writes, whether it is cinema, radio, theater, or television.

Lucarelli, who published his first work in 1990 in the "De Luke" trilogy, asserted that his television series, which deals with crimes whose perpetrators have not been arrested, is based on real testimonies and tracks factual facts, while crime narratives give him the power to unleash his creative imagination.

He talked about his first experience in writing when he was 13 years old in his grandfather's house, saying: “One afternoon I had a lot of free time, and my head was full of ideas, so I looked through some books from my grandfather’s library, and flipped TV channels in search of seeing something close to me. Ideas revolving in my head, but I did not find anything, and I decided to express myself by writing what was in my mind, from here the small stories that I was writing began to establish the foundations on which my career in writing crime novels was based.

Carlo explained that he learned about the crime stories through his mother, who used to read books of all kinds.

He added, "What makes my novels different is that they deal in their background with elements of the hidden history of the colonial past of my country. The Italian citizen does not like to confront the past, but I chose to deal with events that changed society and provided new perspectives to think about what happened."

I chose to take up events that changed society, and provided new perspectives to reflect on what happened.

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