Established by Alberto Mondadori in 1958, il Saggiatore is an independent publishing house focused on literary fiction and non-fiction, with a particular emphasis on science, history and economics.

Our wide-ranging non-fiction list comprises the likes of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Jean-Paul Sartre, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Daron Acemoglu, Paul Mason, Joseph Mazur, Jaron Lanier, Mark Cousins and Piero Camporesi, among others.

Our ever-growing literary fiction list includes Allen Ginsberg, Witold Gombrowicz, Joan Didion, Geoff Dyer, Olivia Laing, Joyce Carol Oates, Akwaeke Emezi, Esther Kinsky, Emma Glass, Mike McCormack and David Peace, to name just a few.

You can find the last updated rights list here.

For rights inquiries please contact:
Andrea Morstabilini
Rights director & Acquisitions editor
via Melzo 9
20129 Milano, Italy
morstabilini@ilsaggiatore.com

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