List: Italian novelists

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•  Carlo Collodi

  Carlo Lorenzini (November 24, 1826 – October 26, 1890), better known by the pen name Carlo Collodi, was a Florentine children's writer known for the world-renowned fairy tale novel, The Adventures of Pinocchio.

  

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•  Grazia Deledda

  Grazia Deledda (September 27, 1871—August 15, 1936) was a Italian writer whose works won her a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926.

  

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•  Italo Calvino

  Italo Calvino (15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952-1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979). Lionised in Britain and America, he was the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death, and a noted contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature.

  

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•  Luigi Pirandello

  Luigi Pirandello (28 June 1867 – 10 December 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, and short story writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934, for his "bold and brilliant renovation of the drama and the stage. " Pirandello's works include novels, hundreds of short stories, and about 40 plays, some of which are written in Sicilian.

  

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•  Umberto Eco

  Umberto Eco (born 5 January 1932) is an Italian medievalist, semiotician, philosopher, literary critic and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa, 1980), an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory. Eco is President of the Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici, University of Bologna, and an Honorary Fellow of Kellogg College, University of Oxford.

  

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•  Primo Levi

  Primo Michele Levi (31 July 1919–11 April 1987) was a Jewish-Italian chemist and writer. He is best known for If This Is a Man, published in the U.S. as Survival in Auschwitz, his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. It has been described as one of the most important works of the twentieth century.

  

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•  Alessandro Manzoni

  Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Manzoni (March 7, 1785 – May 22, 1873) was an Italian poet and novelist. He is famous for the novel The Betrothed, one of the major works of World literature.

  

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•  Emilio Lussu

  Emilio Lussu (December 4, 1890 - March 5, 1975) was a Sardinian soldier, politician and a writer.

  

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•  Rafael Sabatini

  Rafael Sabatini (April 29, 1875 - February 13, 1950) was an Italian/British writer of novels of romance and adventure.

  

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•  Dino Buzzati

  Dino Buzzati Traverso (October 16, 1906 - January 28, 1972) was an Italian novelist, short story writer, painter and poet, as well as a journalist for Corriere della Sera. His worldwide fame is mostly due to his novel Il deserto dei Tartari, translated into English as The Tartar Steppe.

  

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•  Italo Svevo

  Aron Ettore Schmitz (December 19, 1861 – September 13, 1928), better known by the pseudonym Italo Svevo, was an Italian businessman and author of novels, plays, and short stories.

  

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•  Anton Giulio Barrili

  Anton Giulio Barrili (1836–1908), Italian novelist, was born at Savona, and was educated for the legal profession, which he abandoned for journalism in Genoa. He was a volunteer in the campaign of 1859 and served with Garibaldi in 1866 and 1867. From 1865 onwards he published a large number of books of fiction, which had wide popularity, his work being commonly compared with that of Victor Cherbuliez.

  

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•  Pier Paolo Pasolini

  Pier Paolo Pasolini (March 5, 1922 – November 2, 1975) was an Italian poet, intellectual, film director, and writer. Pasolini distinguished himself as a poet, journalist, philosopher, linguist, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, newspaper and magazine columnist, actor, painter and political figure. He demonstrated a unique and extraordinary cultural versatility, in the process becoming a highly controversial figure.

  

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•  Antonio Fogazzaro

  Antonio Fogazzaro (25 March 1842 – 7 March 1911) was an Italian novelist.

  

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•  Luther Blissett (nom de plume)

  Luther Blissett is a multiple-use name, an "open reputation" informally adopted and shared by hundreds of artists and social activists all over Europe and South America since 1994. On the Usenet, the first reference to the Luther Blissett Project appeared on 7 November 1994.

  

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•  Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

  Giuseppe Tomasi, 11th Prince of Lampedusa (December 23, 1896 - July 23, 1957), was a Sicilian writer. He is most famous for his only novel, Il Gattopardo (first published posthumously in 1958, translated as The Leopard) which is set in Sicily during the Risorgimento. A taciturn and solitary man, he passed a great deal of his time reading and meditating, and used to say of himself, "I was a boy who liked solitude, who preferred the company of things to that of people."

  

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•  Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi

  Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi (August 12, 1804 – September 25, 1873) was an Italian writer and politician involved in the Italian risorgimento. Guerrazzi was born on August 12, 1804 in the seaport of Livorno, then part of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. He studied law at the university of Pisa, graduating in 1824. He began to practice in Livorno, but soon gave up law in favour of politics and literature, being particularly influenced by Byron, to whom he dedicated his "Stanze" (1825).

  

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•  Giorgio Bassani

  Giorgio Bassani (March 4, 1916 – April 13, 2000) was an Italian novelist, poet, essayist, editor, and international intellectual.

  

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•  Umberto Saba

  Umberto Saba (9 March 1883 - 26 August 1957) was the pseudonym of Italian poet and novelist Umberto Poli. His creative work was hampered by a life-long struggle with mental illness.

  

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•  Edmondo De Amicis

  Edmondo De Amicis (October 21, 1846 – March 11, 1908) was an Italian novelist, journalist, poet and short-story writer. His best-known book is the children's novel Heart.

  

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•  Francesco Guccini

  Francesco Guccini (born June 14, 1940) is an Italian singer-songwriter and author. His songs are renowned for their poetic and literary value, and in 1990 he won the Premio Eugenio Montale for verses in music.

  

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•  Valerio Massimo Manfredi

  Valerio Massimo Manfredi (born 1943) is an Italian historian, writer, archaeologist and journalist. He was born in Piumazzo di Castelfranco Emilia, province of Modena and is married to Christine Fedderson Manfredi, who translates his published works from Italian to English. They have two children and live in a small town near Bologna. Valerio Massimo Manfredi defines himself as an "Ancient World Topographer".

  

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•  Leonardo Sciascia

  Leonardo Sciascia (January 8, 1921 – November 20, 1989) was an Italian writer, novelist, essayist, playwright and politician. Some of his works have been made into films, including Open Doors (1990) and Il giorno della civetta (1968).

  

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•  Ignazio Silone

  Ignazio Silone (1 May 1900 - 22 August 1978) was the pseudonym of Secondino Tranquilli, an Italian author and politician.

  

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•  Franco Mimmi

  Franco Mimmi is an Italian journalist and novelist. He has written for major Italian newspapers such as Il Resto del Carlino, La Stampa, Il Mondo, Italia Oggi, Il Corriere della Sera, L'Espresso, Il Sole-24 Ore and L'Unità. His work as a writer reveals his will to face the great social problems of our time, even when this aim is concealed behind ancient scenarios. Some of his books have been translated into French, German and Spanish.

  

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