Massimo Carlotto is an Italian writer and playwright, born on 22 July 1956. He began his literary career in 1995 with the noir novel The Fugitive, a fictionalized account of his time on the run. In 1998, he published Le irregolari, the semi-autobiographical novel on the Argentine military regime of the Seventies. In 2001, he released Arrivederci, amore ciao, which was adapted into a movie in 2005. In 2004, he published Death's Dark Abyss, a nihilistic noir on the theme of revenge.