20th-century italian novelists

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.

Ignazio Silone

Italian political leader, novelist, and short-story writer, world-famous during World War II for his powerful anti-Fascist novels

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.

Natalia Ginzburg

Italian author whose work explored family relationships, politics during and after the Fascist years and World War II, and philosophy

Giovanni Guareschi

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

Umberto Eco

Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic and political and social commentator