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Leonardo Sciascia
AuthorBooks · Second hand1921-1989
Leonardo Sciascia was an Italian writer, novelist, essayist, playwright, and politician. Some of his works have been made into films, including Porte Aperte, Cadaveri Eccellenti, Todo Modo and Il giorno della civetta.
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Titles
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Featured books
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Curiosities
About Leonardo Sciascia
Birth
1921
Death
1989
First book
1961
Years writing
65
Leonardo Sciascia was an Italian writer, novelist, essayist, playwright, and politician. Some of his works have been made into films, including Porte Aperte, Cadaveri Eccellenti, Todo Modo and Il giorno della civetta.
Leonardo Sciascia was born in Racalmuto, a small Sicilian town that deeply shaped his identity and literary work.
He was a multifaceted figure who excelled as a writer, journalist, playwright, poet, and even a politician.
His work 'The Day of the Owl' is considered a fundamental piece of 20th-century Italian literature.
Throughout his prolific career, he wrote a total of 237 works exploring the complexity of Italian society.
Beyond his narrative writing, Sciascia worked as a teacher, a vocation that influenced his critical and analytical view of the world.
