Sellerio Editore

Sellerio Editore S.r.l.
Company typeSocietà a responsabilità limitata
IndustryPublishing
Founded1969 (Palermo, Italy)
Headquarters
Palermo
,
Italy
ProductsBooks
ServicesPublishing of books
Revenue€12.2 million (2018)
Websitesellerio.it

Sellerio Editore is an Italian publisher founded in 1969 in Palermo, by Elvira Giorgianni and her husband Enzo Sellerio, encouraged by the writer Leonardo Sciascia and the anthropologist Antonino Buttitta.[1][2]

History

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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 Leonardo Sciascia's L'affaire Moro (The case Aldo Moro).[3] From then on the number of collections grows, starting with La memoria (The memory), today practically a symbol of the italian publisher.[2]

Among the writers who have collaborated with the publishing house: Gesualdo Bufalino, launched in 1981, winner of the Campiello Prize and Strega Prize[4][5] and Andrea Camilleri ("father" of Montalbano).[1][6]

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).[2]

By 2020 the Sellerio catalog has more than three thousand titles.[7]

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.[8][9]

Italian writers

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The Sellerio stand at the Salone del libro in 2017.

Authors translated into Italian

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Book series

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  • 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

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Elvira Sellerio obituary". The Guardian. 23 August 2010.
  2. ^ a b c "Io, l'amore dei Sellerio per i libri e un'avventura che dura da 50 anni". Il Sole 24 Ore (in Italian). 6 May 2019.
  3. ^ "L'AFFAIRE MORO: SCIASCIA SULLE TRACCE DEL PRIGIONIERO". Minima & Moralia (in Italian). 9 May 2020.
  4. ^ "La vita". Fondazione Gesualdo Bufalino (in Italian).
  5. ^ "Bufalino e la scommessa di Elvira Sellerio". Insieme Ragusa (in Italian). 7 June 2013.
  6. ^ "I 50 anni di Sellerio una storia siciliana dipinta di blu". la Repubblica (in Italian). 15 February 2019.
  7. ^ "Per i suoi 50 anni Sellerio pubblica "Cinquanta in blu. Otto racconti gialli"". Vivere Giovani (in Italian). 13 September 2019.
  8. ^ "Antonio Sellerio: "I nostri primi cinquant'anni, dalla crisi a Camilleri"". la Repubblica (in Italian). 10 May 2019.
  9. ^ "Elvira Sellerio, la sirena dal polso fermo che amava i libri come figli". Il Foglio (in Italian). 3 August 2010.
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