Locals in Leonardo Sciascia's Sicily town fight planned sale of his house

Italian writer, who died 25 years ago, lived in Racalmuto, where residents are campaigning for his former house to be saved

Locals in the home town of Leonardo Sciascia, one of Italy's great 20th-century writers, have expressed outrage over the intended sale of his former house and are appealing to the Sicilian regional authority and the government in Rome to help save it as a national treasure.

Sciascia was a novelist and politician whose works were often set in his troubled, mafia-blighted homeland of Sicily. He hailed from Racalmuto in the south-west of the island and lived there for much of his life.

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