Leonardo Sciascia

Leonardo Sciascia (died 1989) was born in Racalmuto, Sicily, in 1921. A primary-school teacher in his native village, he made school and Sicily the subject of his first books. Elected a deputy in 1979 on the Radical Party list, he sat on the parliamentary commission of inquiry into the kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, for which he wrote a minority report. His prose, clear and precise, concerned itself with the links between the Mafia and politics. He died in Palermo in 1989.

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• Short storiesThe Wine-Dark SeaIl mare colore del vinoLeonardo Sciascia · 1973Literature