Pulixi Piergiorgio

Liberevento authors

Piergiorgio Pulixi

Writer

Author of numerous crime novels, he has received prestigious national and international awards, including the 2019 Scerbanenco Prize for the best Italian noir novel of the year. He is considered one of the most important representatives of the new generation of noir and thriller writers in Europe. His books have been translated into twelve countries. He is the author of the “I Canti del Male” series, published in Italy by Rizzoli, comprising: “Il Canto degli innocenti”, “La scelta del buio”, “L’isola delle anime”, “Un colpo al cuore”, “La settima luna”, “Stella di Mare”, “Per un’ora d’amore” and the novel released in late August 2025, “L’uomo dagli occhi tristi”. The novels in this series, featuring protagonists such as criminologist Vito Strega and Inspectors Mara Rais and Eva Croce, consistently reach the top of the Italian bestseller charts. The novel “Un colpo al cuore”, published in French as “L’illusion du mal”, was voted by the readers of Babelio.com, the largest online community of French readers, as the third-best international noir novel of the past twenty years. In 2023, he published the novel “La libreria dei gatti neri” with Marsilio, a cozy crime novel that pays homage to mystery literature. The novel has sold more than 60,000 copies in Italy and was a major success in France, published by Gallmeister, which publishes the author’s entire catalogue. In 2025, the second title in the series, “Se i gatti potessero parlare”, was released, also by Marsilio. Pulixi has also written several standalone novels, including “L’appuntamento” (2014), “Padre nostro” (Rizzoli 2014, written with the Collettivo Sabot), “Lo stupore della notte” (Rizzoli 2018), “Per mia colpa” (Mondadori 2021) and “La donna nel pozzo” (Feltrinelli 2024). In 2017, he published his first collection of short stories dedicated to the female universe, “L’ira di Venere.” Pulixi also writes novels for young readers in the middle-grade and young-adult categories. In 2022, Rizzoli published the novel “Il mistero dei bambini d’ombra”, which has since gone through several editions and has sold more than 11,000 copies.
In 2016, he co-wrote “Lovers Hotel” with Massimo Carlotto, the first Italian audio series produced exclusively for Audible. In 2025, the audio series “Per mia colpa” will be released, based on the 2021 novel of the same name and dramatized and adapted by Pulixi. He teaches Narrative Techniques and Creative Writing and has written for the cultural pages of the daily newspaper La Nuova Sardegna. In 2026, he was a guest of the Liberevento Cultural Festival with the books “Il nido del corvo” (Ed. Feltrinelli), “Tutte le ragazze mentono” (Ed. Rizzoli) and “L’appuntamento” (Ed. SEM).