Franco Enna

Franco Enna was the best known pseudonym of Francesco Cannarozzo (16 September 1921 – 19 July 1990), an Italian writer. He was born in Castrogiovanni (now known as Enna), Sicily, on the 16 September 1921, the son of a police sergeant,

Much of his work was published in the science fiction magazine Urania. He came to be known as the writer who "provincialised" Italian crime fiction; Italo Calvino and Alberto Savinio had said that the Italian countryside could not be the background to a thriller, but Enna successfully wrote novels which refuted that. Enna used the format of a detective novel as an opportunity to show his view of the world. Sicily became the perfect setting to tell stories filled with intrigue and steeped in passion.