1991

 

(From left) Daniel Pennac, a Frenchman and a new writer who was an immediate success with his first two books, Il paradiso degli orchi and La prosivendola. Gianni Riotta, who made a brilliant debut with his collection of short stories, Cambio di stagione; the sociologist, Luigi Manconi, who contributed to a controversial theme with Legalizzare la droga. Una ragionevole proposta di sperimentazione. And the Spanish philosopher and poetess, Maria Zambrano, author of the book Chiari del bosco.
New authors included: Josephine Hart (Il danno and Il peccato, 1993); Enrico Deaglio (La banalità del bene. Storia di Giorgio Perlasca); Renato Mannheimer (La Lega Lombarda ).


  

Luglio and Storia di mio figlio, two novels by Nadine Gordimer, the South African novelist (photographed left with Günter Grass). She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991. Kitchen, the first of a successful series of novels by the young writer Banana Yoshimoto (right); Feltrinelli published the first world edition, excluding Japan. Launched in 1990, the series "Classici" continued to present numerous old and modern texts. In"Anni Novanta" Piergiorgio Paterlini published Ragazzi che amano ragazzi, a book on being gay in Italy.


In September Gabriella D'Ina becomes Chief Editor of the Publishing House.