Find out more about the greatest Italian Novelists, including Umberto Eco, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italo Calvino, Luigi Pirandello and Andrea Camilleri.
Asia Argento20 September 1975
Actress, Model, Writer
Umberto Eco05 January 1932
Italian Semiotician, Philosopher
Tana French10 May 1973
Writer
Luigi Pirandello28 June 1867
Writer
Cesare Pavese09 September 1908
Italian poet
Grazia Deledda27 September 1871
Nobel Laureate in Literature
Pier Paolo Pasolini05 March 1922
Film director, Writer, Actor, Poet, Screenwriter,
Gabriele D'Annunzio12 March 1863
Poet
Italo Calvino15 October 1923
Writer, Poet, Politician, Journalist, Reporter,
Carlo Collodi24 November 1826
Writer, Journalist, Novelist, Children's writer
Andrea Camilleri06 September 1925
Writer, Screenwriter
Giovanni Battista Belzoni05 November 1778
Explorer, Antiquarian, Egyptologist,
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa23 December 1896
Writer, Novelist
Natalia Ginzburg14 July 1916
Author
Curzio Malaparte09 June 1898
Film director, Screenwriter, Journalist, Diplomat,
Italo Svevo19 December 1861
Writer, Playwright, Translator, Businessperson,
Dino Buzzati16 October 1906
Novelist
Alessandro Baricco25 January 1958
Writer, Journalist, Television presenter,
Hugo Pratt15 June 1927
Novelist, Writer, Painter, Screenwriter
Carlo Levi29 November 1902
Painter
Leonardo Sciascia08 January 1921
Author
Renata Adler19 October 1937
Author
Giovanni Papini09 January 1881
Journalist
Elsa Morante18 August 1912
Italian novelist
Giorgio Bassani04 March 1916
Novelist
Francis Marion Crawford02 August 1854
Writer
Ignazio Silone01 May 1900
Political leader
Edmondo De Amicis21 October 1846
Italian novelist
Matteo Bandello1485 AD
Writer
Carlo Emilio Gadda14 November 1893
Writer
Ennio Flaiano05 March 1910
Screenwriter
Umberto Saba09 March 1883
Poet
Giambattista Giraldi31 October 1504
Novelist
Massimo d'Azeglio24 October 1798
Statesman