1. Ludovico Ariosto (1474)

Italian Writer

Italian poet and dramatist best known for a 1516 romantic epic entitled Orlando Furioso. He is also known for Cassaria, a play first performed in 1508.

2. Grazia Deledda (1871)

Italian Writer

Italian novelist who won the 1926 Nobel Prize for Literature.

3. Salvatore Quasimodo (1901)

Italian Writer

Italian poet, author, and 1959 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His literary works include Giorno dopo giorno (Day After Day) and La vita non e sogno (Life Is...

4. Cesare Pavese (1908)

Italian Writer

Twentieth-century Italian poet, author, and translator known for La luna e i falo (The Moon and the Bonfires), Il Compagno (The Comrade), and other works. His literary works typically focus...

5. Giorgio Manganelli (1922)

Italian Writer

Perhaps most well known for his Viareggio Prize-winning, avant-garde short story collection Centuria (1979), this Italian fiction writer, essayist, translator, journalist, and literary critic is also remembered for nearly fifty...

6. Melissa Panarello (1985)

Italian Writer

Melissa Panarello alias Melissa P. is an Italian writer.

7. Pierdomenico Baccalario (1974)

Italian Writer

Pierdomenico Baccalario is an Italian author of young adult fiction best known for his Ulysses Moore series.

8. Enrico Brizzi (1974)

Italian Writer

Enrico Brizzi is an Italian writer. He is best known for his debut novel Jack Frusciante è uscito dal gruppo. His debut is so far the only one published in...

9. Igiaba Scego (1974)

Italian Writer

Igiaba Scego is an Italian writer of Somali origin.

10. Cinzia Giorgio (1975)

Italian Writer

Cinzia Giorgio is an Italian writer.

11. Brunella Gasperini (1918)

Italian Writer

Brunella Gasperini pen name of Bianca Robecchi was an Italian journalist and novelist.

12. Luciano De Crescenzo (1928)

Italian Writer

Luciano De Crescenzo is an Italian writer film actor director and engineer. Born in Naples he graduated in engineering and worked for IBM Italy until 1976 when he published the...

13. Carlo Tenca (1816)

Italian Writer

Carlo Tenca was an Italian man of letters journalist deputy and supporter of Risorgimento. He was the prime-mover in the Salon of countess Clara Maffei to whom he was romantically...

14. Ferdinando Camon (1935)

Italian Writer

Camon is a contemporary Italian writer. He is married to a journalist and has two sons: Alessandro Camon a film producer/writer who lives in Los Angeles and Alberto who teaches...

15. Antonio Porta (author) (1935)

Italian Writer

Antonio Porta was an author and poet and one of the founders of the Italian literary movement Gruppo 63.

16. Luca Desiato (1941)

Italian Writer

Luca Desiato is an Italian journalist and writer. He lived for some years in Latin America where it is dedicated among other things to theological studies. He currently lives and...

17. Ignazio Silone (1900)

Italian Writer

Ignazio Silone was the pseudonym of Secondino Tranquilli an Italian author and politician.

18. Franco Mimmi (1942)

Italian Writer

Mimmi is an Italian journalist and novelist. He has written for some Italian newspapers such as Il Resto del Carlino La Stampa Il Corriere della Sera L'Espresso Il Sole-24 Ore...

19. Massimo Teodori (1938)

Italian Writer

Massimo Teodori is an Italian author and politician; his books mainly focus on the differences between Europe and the United States. He was born in Force near the city of...

20. Barbara Alberti (1943)

Italian Writer

Barbara Alberti is an Italian writer journalist and screenwriter.

21. Paolo Giordano (1982)

Italian Writer

Paolo Giordano is an Italian writer who won the Premio Strega literary award with his first novel The Solitude of Prime Numbers.

22. Clara Sereni (1946)

Italian Writer

Clara Sereni is an Italian writer of Jewish descent. She was born and married in Rome where she remained until 1991. Then she moved to Perugia where she still lives....

23. Carmen Covito (1948)

Italian Writer

Carmen Covito is an Italian writer and translator. Her novels include La bruttina stagionata Del perché i porcospini attraversano la strada Benvenuti in questo ambiente and La rossa e il...

24. Emanuela Da Ros (1959)

Italian Writer

Emanuela Da Ros is an Italian writer of children's books. She was born on December 24 1959 in Vittorio Veneto Italy where she lives today. She graduated in art history...

25. Nicoletta Vallorani (Unknow)

Italian Writer

Nicoletta Vallorani is an Italian science fiction writer. Born in Offida in the Marche region she holds a degree in Foreign Languages with a dissertation on Contemporary American Literature honed...

26. Massimo Mongai (1950)

Italian Writer

Massimo Mongai is an Italian author of science fiction.

27. Nadia Cavalera (1950)

Italian Writer

Nadia Cavalera is an Italian novelist poet and literary critic.

28. Sandro Veronesi (Unknow)

Italian Writer

Sandro Veronesi born in Prato Tuscany in 1959 is an Italian novelist essayist and journalist. After earning a degree in architecture at the University of Florence he opted for a...

29. Alessandro d'Ancona (1835)

Italian Writer

Alessandro D'Ancona was an Italian critic and writer. He was born at Pisa of a wealthy Jewish family and educated in Florence; at the age of eighteen he published his...

30. Lidia Ravera (1951)

Italian Writer

Lidia Ravera is an Italian writer journalist essayist and screenwriter. She became famous in 1976 for Porci con le ali co-written by Marco Lombardo Radice a novel dealing with the...

31. Roberto Quaglia (1962)

Italian Writer

Roberto Quaglia is an Italian science fiction writer. Many of his works have been translated and published in Romania and some have also been translated into English Russian Spanish French...

32. Andrea De Carlo (1952)

Italian Writer

Andrea De Carlo is a popular Italian writer.

33. Silvio Fazio (1952)

Italian Writer

Silvio Fazio is an Italian writer. He was born in Rome Italy.

34. Giovanni Verga (1840)

Italian Writer

Giovanni Carmelo Verga was an Italian realist writer best known for his depictions of life in his native Sicily and especially for the short story Cavalleria Rusticana and the novel...

35. Fabio Casadei Turroni (1964)

Italian Writer

bio Casadei Turroni is an Italian novelist musicologist and journalist. Son of the painter Rino Casadei Turroni he studied singing and got his bachelor's degree as a musicologist at the...

36. Valerio Evangelisti (1952)

Italian Writer

Valerio Evangelisti is an Italian writer of science fiction fantasy historical novels and horror. He is known mainly for his series of novels featuring the inquistor Nicolas Eymerich and for...

37. Natalia Ginzburg (1916)

Italian Writer

Natalia Ginzburg née Levi was an Italian author whose work explored family relationships politics during and after the Fascist years and World War II and philosophy. She wrote novels short...

38. Michele Mari (1955)

Italian Writer

Michele Mari is an Italian novelist short story writer academic critic and poet. The son of a prestigious Milanese industrial designer and artist Enzo Mari Michele teaches Italian literature at...

39. Emanuele Trevi (1964)

Italian Writer

Emanuele Trevi is an Italian writer and critic. He was born in Rome the son of Mario Trevi a Jungian psychoanalyst. Trevi has written numerous critical essays on literary figures....

40. Piero Scaruffi (Unknow)

Italian Writer

Piero Scaruffi is a scientist a freelance software consultant and university lecturer. By himself he maintains a music website on which his reviews are published. Scaruffi has created his own...

41. Raniero Panzieri (Unknow)

Italian Writer

Raniero Panzieri Italian politician writer and Marxist theoretician considered as the founder of operaismo.

42. Gaetano Polidori (1764)

Italian Writer

Gaetano Polidori was an Italian writer and scholar living in London. He was the son of Agostino Ansano Polidori a physician and poet who lived and practised in his native...

43. Antonio Galdo (1957)

Italian Writer

Antonio Galdo is an Italian writer and journalist.

44. Caterina Davinio (1957)

Italian Writer

Caterina Davinio is an Italian poet novelist and new media artist. Author of digital art net. art video art. She was the creator of Italian Net-poetry in 1998.

45. Susanna Tamaro (1957)

Italian Writer

Susanna Tamaro is an Italian novelist. She has also worked as a scientific documentarist and movie maker direction assistant.

46. Lara Cardella (1969)

Italian Writer

Lara Cardella is an Italian writer. She is best known for her best seller novel Good girls don't wear trousers.

47. Licia Troisi (1980)

Italian Writer

Licia Troisi is an Italian fantasy writer. Her first published book was Nihal della terra del vento published in 2004. This is the first book of a fantasy trilogy entitled...

48. Filippo Valguarnera (1977)

Italian Writer

Valguarnera is an Italian-Swedish legal scholar dedicated mainly to the study of access to nature and access to justice. He earned his law degree and Ph. D. at the University...

49. Isabella Santacroce (1970)

Italian Writer

Isabella Santacroce is an Italian novelist.

50. Paola Barbato (1971)

Italian Writer

Paola Barbato is an Italian novelist and comics writer. She is part of the writing staff of the Italian comic Dylan Dog published by Sergio Bonelli Editore.