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The Leopard. First edition in English. The Leopard is among best-selling Italian novels in history and won the 1959 Strega Prize, the country's highest award for fiction. The author's sole novel, it was published as Il Gattopardo (1958) in the year following his death."Lampedusa's Sicily is a place where the optimistic, progressive, rational forces of history as viewed in the 19th century... get lost in baroque back streets at midnight. As a myth, as a fiction of history, The Leopard will continue to ensnare minds, and not only in Italy. Lampedusa's despair is not so different from that of today's world, with its shrunken political expectations. We are all Sicilians now" (Jones). It was adapted for film in 1963 and won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival of that year. In 2025, it was adapted for television.

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