Sellerio Editore is an Italian publisher founded in 1969 in

Palermo Palermo ( ; ; , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital (political), capital of both the autonomous area, autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan province. The ...

, 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 Eccellen ...

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 Moro (; 23 September 1916 – 9 May 1978) was an Italian statesman and prominent member of Christian Democracy (Italy), Christian Democracy (DC) and its centre-left wing. He served as prime minister of Italy in five terms from December 1963 ...

). 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 Gesualdo Bufalino (; 15 November 1920 – 14 June 1996), was an Italian writer who lived in Sicily for most of his life. Biography Bufalino was born in Comiso, Sicily. His father was a blacksmith. He went to school in Ragusa and attended Univers ...

, launched in 1981, winner of the Campiello Prize and

Strega Prize The Strega Prize ( ) is the most important Italian literary award. It has been awarded annually since 1947 for the best work of prose fiction written in the Italian language by an author of any nationality and first published between 1 March of t ...

and Andrea Camilleri ("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 classical culture, 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 ...

* Davide Camarrone * Andrea Camilleri * Luciano Canfora * 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 197 ...

* Ugo Cornia * Augusto De Angelis * Marco Ferrari *

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

Carlo Lucarelli Carlo Lucarelli (born 26 October 1960) is an Italian crime-writer, TV presenter, and magazine editor. In 2003, his novel ''Almost Blue'' was shortlisted for the Gold Dagger award given by the Crime Writers' Association. Early life Lucarelli wa ...

* Marco Malvaldi * Antonio Manzini *

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 twin ...

* Giovanni Merenda * Maria Messina * Andrea Molesini * Angelo Morino * Laura Pariani * Santo Piazzese * Alessandro Robecchi * Francesco Recami * Federico Maria Sardelli * Gaetano Savatteri *

Furio Scarpelli Furio Scarpelli (16 December 1919 – 28 April 2010), also called ''Scarpelli'', was an Italian screenwriter, famous for his collaboration on numerous films with Agenore Incrocci, forming the duo Age & Scarpelli.Obituary ''New York Times'', 1 M ...

Giorgio Scerbanenco Giorgio Scerbanenco (; ; ; 18 July 1911 – 27 October 1969) was a Ukrainians, Ukrainian-born Italians, Italian crime fiction writer. Life and works Giorgio Scerbanenco was born in Kyiv, in what was then the Russian Empire. At an early age, h ...

Adriano Sofri Adriano Sofri (born 1 August 1942, Trieste) is an Italian former far-left politician, a journalist and a writer. He was convicted for ordering the assassination of Milan Police officer Luigi Calabresi in 1972. This was one of the most important ...

* 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 o ...

* Turi Vasile *

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Authors translated into Italian

Héctor Bianciotti Hector Bianciotti (; 18 March 1930 – 12 June 2012) was an Argentine-born French author and member of the Académie Française. Biography Born Héctor Bianciotti (, ) in Calchín Oeste in Córdoba Province, Argentina, Bianciotti's parents wer ...

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* Sergej Donatovič Dovlatov *

Margaret Doody Margaret Anne Doody (born September 21, 1939) is a Canadian author of historical detective fiction and feminist literary critic. She is professor of literature at the University of Notre Dame, helped found the PhD in Literature Program at Notre Da ...

* Alicia Giménez Bartlett * Friedrich Glauser * Geoffrey Holiday Hall *

Nathaniel Hawthorne Nathaniel Hawthorne (né Hathorne; July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer. His works often focus on history, morality, and religion. He was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, from a family long associat ...

* Dominique Manotti *

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

* 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 sy ...

Maj Sjöwall Maj Sjöwall (; 25 September 1935 – 29 April 2020) was a Swedish author and translator. She is best known for her novels about the police detective Martin Beck. She wrote these novels in collaborative work with her partner Per Wahlöö. ...

* Per Wahlöö *

Anthony Trollope Anthony Trollope ( ; 24 April 1815 – 6 December 1882) was an English novelist and civil servant of the Victorian era. Among the best-known of his 47 novels are two series of six novels each collectively known as the ''Chronicles of Barsetshire ...

* 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 – ''La memoria''

References

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