20th-century italian male writers

Italo Svevo

Italian writer, businessman, novelist, playwright, and short story writer.A close friend of Irish novelist and poet James Joyce, Svevo was considered a pioneer of the psychological novel in Italy and is best known for his classic modernist novel La coscienza di Zeno , a work that had a profound effect on the movement.

Rafael Sabatini

Italian-English writer of romance and adventure novels.He is best known for his worldwide bestsellers: The Sea Hawk , Scaramouche , Captain Blood , and Bellarion the Fortunate .
In all, Sabatini produced 34 novels, eight short story collections, six non-fiction books, numerous uncollected short stories, and several plays.

Giovanni Guareschi

Italian journalist, cartoonist and humorist whose best known creation is the priest Don Camillo.

Dino Buzzati

Italian novelist, short story writer, painter and poet, as well as a journalist for Corriere della Sera