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2 unusual facts about Emilio Salgari


Emilio Salgari

It starred Kabir Bedi in the title role and attracted more than 80 million viewers a week.

His work was very popular in Portugal, Spain and Spanish-speaking countries, where Latin American writers such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Isabel Allende, Carlos Fuentes, Jorge Luis Borges and Pablo Neruda, all attested to reading him when young.


Daniel Chavarria

He mentions as a child, reading Jules Verne, Emilio Salgari and Alexandre Dumas, and their influence can be clearly seen in his writing.

Francisco Gabilondo Soler

During his childhood he read the stories of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, as well as the adventure stories of such writers as Jules Verne and Emilio Salgari.

Giada Trebeschi

From very early stage she was a ravenous reader and her father encouraged this attitude feeding her hunger with many different genres so that at the age of twelve she already had read, among others, Hemingway’s The old man and the sea, nearly all Emilio Salgari and Jules Verne novels, Dumas’s The Three Musketeers and Italo Calvino’s The Cloven Viscount, The nonexistent Knight and The Baron in the Trees.


see also

Two Tigers

The Two Tigers, a novel in the Sandokan series by Emilio Salgari