Event
Lignano Noir 2025
Lignano Sabbiadoro
6/13/2025
The Lignano Noir Festival is a tribute to the writer Giorgio Scerbanenco, a recognized master of the crime and noir genre in Italy.
Giorgio Scerbanenco (1911–1969), born in Kyiv, settled in Milan at the age of 16 and soon entered the world of publishing. From 1934 to 1943, he contributed to nearly all Rizzoli magazines and ran an advice column for readers in Grazia. He published his first novels with Mondadori and, starting in 1942, became a regular contributor to the afternoon edition of Corriere della Sera with short stories, serialized novels, and essays.
Between 1945 and 1964, he wrote dozens of romance novels and short stories, while continuing his work as a journalist and editor of the weekly magazines Novella and Bella.
Scerbanenco, having discovered Lignano as a tourist, chose it as his home and creative haven, captivated by the ever-changing hues of the sea and the pine forest, as well as by the modernity of a city in the making. He often spent hours writing at the Bar Gabbiano, along the Sabbiadoro seafront, immersed in the creation of his novels and stories.
It was likely there that the plots of Venere privata (1966) and the intriguing character of Duca Lamberti were born—works that brought Scerbanenco international acclaim.
Among his most well-known titles are: Betrayers of All, The Girl Who Said Goodbye, The Milanese Kill on Saturdays, Caliber 9, The Boys of the Massacre, and The Princesses of Acapulco. The beach of Lignano serves as the backdrop for the novels The Sand Doesn’t Remember and Neither Always Nor Never, where his skill in portraying emotional nuance shines through.
The publishing house La Nave di Teseo, directed by Elisabetta Sgarbi, is currently republishing Scerbanenco’s body of work in the series The Books of Giorgio Scerbanenco, featuring stunning covers illustrated by Manuele Fior.
Scerbanenco’s connection to Lignano endures today through his daughter Cecilia, the curator of his work and the driving force behind the local initiatives dedicated to the writer.
The Library of Lignano Sabbiadoro holds a true gem: the Giorgio Scerbanenco Archive, which preserves first editions of his novels, manuscripts and typescripts, notes, and the writer’s working tools.
The Lignano Noir Festival is a tribute to the writer Giorgio Scerbanenco, a recognized master of the crime and noir genre in Italy.
Giorgio Scerbanenco (1911–1969), born in Kyiv, settled in Milan at the age of 16 and soon entered the world of publishing. From 1934 to 1943, he contributed to nearly all Rizzoli magazines and ran an advice column for readers in Grazia. He published his first novels with Mondadori and, starting in 1942, became a regular contributor to the afternoon edition of Corriere della Sera with short stories, serialized novels, and essays.
Between 1945 and 1964, he wrote dozens of romance novels and short stories, while continuing his work as a journalist and editor of the weekly magazines Novella and Bella.
Scerbanenco, having discovered Lignano as a tourist, chose it as his home and creative haven, captivated by the ever-changing hues of the sea and the pine forest, as well as by the modernity of a city in the making. He often spent hours writing at the Bar Gabbiano, along the Sabbiadoro seafront, immersed in the creation of his novels and stories.
It was likely there that the plots of Venere privata (1966) and the intriguing character of Duca Lamberti were born—works that brought Scerbanenco international acclaim.
Among his most well-known titles are: Betrayers of All, The Girl Who Said Goodbye, The Milanese Kill on Saturdays, Caliber 9, The Boys of the Massacre, and The Princesses of Acapulco. The beach of Lignano serves as the backdrop for the novels The Sand Doesn’t Remember and Neither Always Nor Never, where his skill in portraying emotional nuance shines through.
The publishing house La Nave di Teseo, directed by Elisabetta Sgarbi, is currently republishing Scerbanenco’s body of work in the series The Books of Giorgio Scerbanenco, featuring stunning covers illustrated by Manuele Fior.
Scerbanenco’s connection to Lignano endures today through his daughter Cecilia, the curator of his work and the driving force behind the local initiatives dedicated to the writer.
The Library of Lignano Sabbiadoro holds a true gem: the Giorgio Scerbanenco Archive, which preserves first editions of his novels, manuscripts and typescripts, notes, and the writer’s working tools.
- Phone+39 0431/409160
- Emailbiblio@comune.lignano-sabbiadoro.ud.it
- AddressCube of Culture (between Beach Offices No. 6 and 7 in Lignano Sabbiadoro), Lignano Sabbiadoro
- PriceFree entrance