Michael Dibdin dies
Terrible news, here reported in The Guardian:
Crime writer Michael Dibdin dies
The acclaimed crime novelist Michael Dibdin died last Friday following a short illness, his publisher, Faber, announced today. He was 60.
Dibdin, who spent four years teaching English at the University of Perugia, was best-known for a series of novels set in Italy and featuring a jaundiced detective, Aurelio Zen. The first tale in the series, Ratking, was published in 1988 to critical approbation, winning the Gold Dagger crime novel of the year award.
Dibdin went on to write a further 10 novels starring the Venetian sleuth, the third of which, Cabal (in which Zen is summoned to the Vatican to investigate the death of Prince Ludovico Ruspanti, who apparently committed suicide by throwing himself from the roof of St Peter’s Basilica) was awarded the French Grand Prix du Roman Policier. The final novel in the series, End Games, will be published posthumously. Read on here…
Dibdin is a real favourite author of mine and, as acknowledged above and throughout the article, a superlative writer who transcended genre. With the greatest respect to this as foremost a human tragedy and only a literary one in a secondary sense, those words “the final novel of the series” really do bring it home…
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