Sellerio Editore is an Italian publisher founded in 1969 in

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, by Elvira Giorgianni and her husband Enzo Sellerio, encouraged by the writer

Leonardo Sciascia Leonardo Sciascia (; 8 January 1921 – 20 November 1989) was an Italian writer, novelist, essayist, playwright, and politician. Some of his works have been made into films, including ''Porte Aperte'' (1990; ''Open Doors''), ''Cadaveri Eccellenti ...

and the anthropologist Antonino Buttitta.

History

After some titles published in the first collection, of suggestive name '' La civiltà perfezionata '' (The improved civilization), the publisher gained visibility with the publication in 1978 of

’s '' L'affaire Moro '' (The case

Aldo Moro Aldo Romeo Luigi Moro (; 23 September 1916 – 9 May 1978) was an Italian statesman and a prominent member of the Christian Democracy (DC). He served as prime minister of Italy from December 1963 to June 1968 and then from November 1974 to July ...

). From then on the number of collections grows, starting with ''La memoria'' (The memory), today practically a symbol of the italian publisher. Among the writers who have collaborated with the publishing house: Gesualdo Bufalino, launched in 1981, winner of the Campiello Prize and

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and

Andrea Camilleri Andrea Calogero Camilleri (; 6 September 1925 – 17 July 2019) was an Italian writer. Biography Originally from Porto Empedocle, Girgenti, Sicily, Camilleri began university studies in the Faculty of Literature at the University of Palermo, ...

("father" of Montalbano). From 1983 onwards Elvira Sellerio started to dedicate herself only to narrative and essay publications while Enzo Sellerio started to take care of art and photography publications. Among the collections that have gradually been constituted are also specialized series, such as ''La città antica'' (The ancient city), from

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, and the Sicilian Library of History and Literature (''Sicilian Library of history and letteratura''). By 2020 the Sellerio catalog has more than three thousand titles. After the death of Elvira Sellerio in 2010 the publisher continues to be under the direction of the founder Enzo Sellerio, together with his son Antonio and Olivia Sellerio, in addition to the researcher Salvatore Silvano Nigro.

Italian writers

* Luisa Adorno * Sebastiano Aglianò *

Giulio Angioni Giulio Angioni (28 October 1939 – 12 January 2017) was an Italian writer and anthropologist. Biography Angioni was a leading Italian anthropologist, professor at the University of Cagliari and fellow of St Antony's College of the University o ...

* Maria Attanasio *

Sergio Atzeni Sergio Atzeni (14 October 1952 in Capoterra – 6 September 1995 in Carloforte) was an Italian writer. Life and career Born in Capoterra, southern Sardinia, Atzeni lived in Orgosolo during his childhood until he moved to Cagliari where, as a ...

* Gesualdo Bufalino * Davide Camarrone *

Luciano Canfora Luciano Canfora (; born 5 June 1942) is an Italian classicist and historian. Born in Bari, Canfora obtained his first degree in Roman History in 1964 at Pisa University. He is currently Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Bari. ...

* Gianrico Carofiglio *

Vincenzo Consolo Vincenzo Consolo (18 February 1933 – 21 January 2012) was an Italian writer. Consolo was born in Sant'Agata di Militello, but resided in Milan from 1969 until his death. He began his literary career in 1963, but gained wider attention in 19 ...

* Ugo Cornia * Augusto De Angelis *

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Pietro Grossi Pietro Grossi (15 April 1917, in Venice – 21 February 2002, in Florence) was an Italian composer pioneer of computer music, visual artist and hacker ahead of his time. He began experimenting with electronic techniques in Italy in the early si ...

* Carlo Lucarelli * Marco Malvaldi *

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Lorenza Mazzetti Lorenza Mazzetti (26 July 1927 – 4 January 2020) was an Italian film director, novelist, photographer and painter. Early life Mazzetti was born in Florence. Her mother, Olga Liberati, died shortly after giving birth to Lorenza and her twi ...

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Maria Messina Maria Messina (March 14, 1887 – January 19, 1944) was an Italian writer. Biography Maria was born in Alimena, in the province of Palermo, the daughter of school inspector Gaetano Messina and Gaetana Valenza Trajna, descendant of a baronial fami ...

* Andrea Molesini *

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* Alessandro Robecchi *

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* Furio Scarpelli * Giorgio Scerbanenco *

Adriano Sofri Adriano Sofri (born 1 August 1942) is an Italian intellectual, a journalist and a writer. The former leader of the autonomist movement ''Lotta Continua'' ("Continuous Struggle") in the 1960s, he was arrested in 1988 and sentenced to 22 years of p ...

* Fabio Stassi *

Antonio Tabucchi Antonio Tabucchi (; 24 September 1943 – 25 March 2012) was an Italian writer and academic who taught Portuguese language and literature at the University of Siena, Italy. Deeply in love with Portugal, he was an expert, critic and translator of ...

Turi Vasile Turi Vasile (22 March 1922 - 1 September 2009) was an Italian producer, director, playwright, screenwriter, film critic and author. Life and career Born in Messina, Sicily, Vasile started working as a playwright and a theatre director in the e ...

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Authors translated into Italian

* Héctor Bianciotti *

Roberto Bolaño Roberto Bolaño Ávalos (; 28 April 1953 – 15 July 2003) was a Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist. In 1999, Bolaño won the Rómulo Gallegos Prize for his novel ''Los detectives salvajes'' ('' The Savage Detectives ...

* Sergej Donatovič Dovlatov *

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* Alicia Giménez Bartlett *

Friedrich Glauser Friedrich Glauser (4 February 1896 in Vienna – 8 December 1938 in Nervi) was a German-language Swiss writer. He was a morphine and opium addict for most of his life. In his first novel ''Gourrama'', written between 1928 and 1930, he treated his ...

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* Dominique Manotti *

Manuel Vázquez Montalbán Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (14 June 1939–18 October 2003) was a prolific Spanish writer from Catalonia: journalist, novelist, poet, essayist, anthologue, prologist, humorist, critic and political prisoner as well as a gastronome and a FC ...

* Ben Pastor *

Vincent Schiavelli Vincent Andrew Schiavelli (; November 11, 1948 – December 26, 2005) was an American character actor noted for his work on stage, screen, and television. Described as an "instantly recognizable sad-faced actor", he was diagnosed with Marfan s ...

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* José Maria Eça de Queirós

Book series

*''La memoria'' *''La rosa dei venti'' *''Il contesto'' *''Il divano'' *''Alle 8 di sera'' *''Nuovo prisma'' *''La nuova diagonale'' *''Galleria'' *''Le indagini di Montalbano'' *''Biblioteca siciliana di storia e letteratura'' *''Corti'' *''Il castello'' *''Il gioco delle parti. Romanzi giudiziari'' *''Il mare'' *''La diagonale'' *''Le parole e le cose'' *''Tutto e subito'' *''Fine secolo'' *''Quaderni della Biblioteca siciliana di storia e letteratura'' *''L'Italia'' *''La città antica'' * ''Teatro'' * ''Nuovo Museo'' * ''L'isola'' * ''La civiltà perfezionata'' * ''Fantascienza'' * ''Prisma'' * ''Museo'' * ''La pietra vissuta'' * ''Le favole mistiche'' * ''Fuori collana'' * ''App'' * ''Narrativa per la scuola'' * ''La memoria illustrata'' * ''I cristalli'' * ''I cristallini'' * ''Varia'' * ''Cataloghi'' * ''Bel vedere'' * ''Diorama'' * ''L'occhio di vetro'' * ''La Cuba''

Television series based on Sellerio books

* Inspector Montalbano – ''Le indagini di Montalbano'' *

The Young Montalbano ''The Young Montalbano'' () is an Italian television spin-off produced and broadcast by ''Radiotelevisione Italiana'' ( RAI) in 2012 and 2015. It is a prequel to the '' Inspector Montalbano'' () series that are based on the detective novels of And ...

– ''La memoria''

References

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