Kyril bonfiglioli biography of martin luther

Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.

Adopted name of Cyril Emmanuel George Bonfiglioli (1928-1985), UK son of Italo-Slovene and English parents, at various times a book dealer, art dealer, editor of Science Fantasy, and author.

In the last capacity he is best known for the Charlie Mortdecai black-comedy thrillers beginning with Don't Point That Thing at Me (1973), which despite a few parodic swipes at Ian Fleming's James Bond do not venture into sf territory and are not listed below.

The film Mortdecai (2015), directed by David Koepp, is loosely based on these tales of Antihero Mortdecai, described in the opening volume as not a self-portrait but "some other portly, dissolute, immoral and middle-aged art-dealer."

Bonfiglioli's fiction debut was "Blast Off" (June/July 1964 Science Fantasy #65 anonymous; vt "Blastoff" credited to Bonfiglioli in England Swings SF, anth 1968, ed Judith Merril), his only sf story, written to fill a gap in the magazine an