(17 January 2017) His most recent novel, “Cosa resta di noi” (Sellerio) came out in 2015 and won the Scerbanenco Prize, the most important national award for crime novels. Giampaolo Simi will be in conversation with Abheek Barua in the context of the Noir Literature Festival that will be held in New Delhi from 27 to 29 January. “Chink in the Armour” is the focus of the discussion, promoted in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute and Oxford Bookstore on Saturady 28 January at 12:30 (Oxford Bookstore, Connaught Place). Simi was born in 1965 in Viareggio. His novels are published in France by Gallimard Série Noire e Sonatine and by Bertelsmann in Germany. He also writes screenplays for tv crime-fiction series like Ispettore Coliandro, Crimini, and Ris. His first film as a scriptwriter, “Luce del Nord” shot by Stefano Sollima, has been selected among the best works of 2010 in the European section of the Fiction Festival of La Rochelle. He also collaborates with newspapers and websites as a critic and journalist. He recently wrote two short stories for Artnews, cultural weekly magazine for Rai. (Red)
