Established by Alberto Mondadori in 1958, il Saggiatore is an independent publishing house focused on upmarket 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, Fernand Braudel, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Daron Acemoglu, Paul Mason, Joseph Mazur, 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, László Darvasi, 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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