Editing Emilio Salgari (section)

{{short description|Italian writer (1862–1911)}}
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| name = Emilio Salgari
| image = Emilio Salgari ritratto.jpg
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1862|8|21|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Verona]], [[Lombardy–Venetia]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1911|4|25|1862|8|21|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Turin]], [[Kingdom of Italy]]
| occupation = Journalist, writer, novelist
| genre = [[Adventure fiction|Adventure]], [[Western fiction|Westerns]], [[Historical novel|Historical fiction]], [[Science fiction]]
| notableworks = [[Sandokan]], [[The Tigers of Mompracem]] (series),
[[The Black Corsair]] (series)
| spouse = {{marriage|Ida Peruzzi|1892}}
| children = 4
}}
'''Emilio Salgari''' ({{IPA|it|eˈmiːljo salˈɡaːri}}<small>, but often erroneously</small> {{IPA|it|ˈsalɡari|pron}}; 21 August 1862 – 25 April 1911) was an [[Italians|Italian]] writer of [[Action_fiction#Genre_fiction|action adventure]] [[swashbuckler]]s and a pioneer of [[science fiction]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lOijDwAAQBAJ|title=Simone Brioni and Daniele Comberiati, Italian Science Fiction: The Other in Literature and Film. New York: Palgrave, 2019.|isbn=9783030193263|last1=Brioni|first1=Simone|last2=Comberiati|first2=Daniele|date=2019-07-18|publisher=Springer }}</ref>

In Italy, his extensive body of work was more widely read than that of [[Dante Alighieri]]. In the 21st century, he is still among the 40 most translated Italian authors. Many of his most popular novels have been adapted as comics, animated series and feature films. He is considered the father of Italian [[adventure fiction]] and Italian [[popular culture|pop culture]], and the "grandfather" of the [[Spaghetti Western]].<ref>Giovanni Arpino, ''Emilio Salgari, il padre degli eroi,'' Mondadori 1991</ref>
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