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This is a list of notable Italian writers, including novelists, essayists, poets, and other people whose primary artistic output was literature.


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Crescenzo Alatri Crescenzo Alatri (1825 – 12 February 1897) was an Italian-Jewish writer most well-known for his publication of "History of the Jews in Rome." Biography Born in Rome, Alatri was educated in the Talmud Torah of his native city, the ''Universita ...
(1825–1897) * Attilio Albergoni (born 1949) *
Sibilla Aleramo Sibilla Aleramo (born Marta Felicina Faccio; 14 August 1876 – 13 January 1960) was an Italian feminist writer and poet known for her autobiographical depictions of life as a woman in late 19th century Italy. Life and career Aleramo was bor ...
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Vittorio Alfieri Count Vittorio Amedeo Alfieri (, also , ; 16 January 17498 October 1803) was an Italians, Italian dramatist and poet, considered the "founder of Italian tragedy." He wrote nineteen tragedies, sonnets, satires, and a notable autobiography. Early l ...
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Dante Alighieri Dante Alighieri (; most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri; – September 14, 1321), widely known mononymously as Dante, was an Italian Italian poetry, poet, writer, and philosopher. His ''Divine Comedy'', originally called ...
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Magdi Allam Magdi Cristiano Allam ( Majdī ʿAllām; born 22 April 1952), is an Egyptian-Italian journalist and politician, noted for his criticism of Islam and his articles on the relations between Western culture and the Islamic world. Allam converted ...
(born 1951) * Ernesto Aloia (born 1965) *
Corrado Alvaro Corrado Alvaro (15 April 1895 – 11 June 1956) was an Italian journalist and writer of novels, short stories, screenplays and plays. He often used the '' verismo'' style to describe the hopeless poverty in his native Calabria. His first suc ...
(1895–1956) *
Pasquale Amati Pasquale Amati (24 May 1726 – 23 August 1796) was an Italian antiquary, born at Savignano di Romagna (now Savignano sul Rubicone - province of Forlì), and educated at Cesena, Rimini, and Rome. On his return to Savignano he wrote two ''Disse ...
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Niccolò Ammaniti Niccolò Ammaniti () is an Italian writer, winner of the Premio Strega in 2007 for '' As God Commands'' (also published under the title ''The Crossroads''). He became noted in 2001 with the publication of '' I'm Not Scared'' (''Io non ho paura'' ...
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Elisa S. Amore Elisa S. Amore (born April 13, 1984) is an Italian novelist. She is the author of the "Touched" series, a supernatural romance saga about Heaven and Hell. Her series is an international success originally published in Italian by the major Italia ...
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Andrea da Grosseto Andrea da Grosseto was an Italian writer of the 13th century. Biography Born in Grosseto in the first half of 1200s; not much is known of his literary work and his life. Andrea moved to Paris, where he taught literature and the art of poetry. In ...
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Cecco Angiolieri Francesco "Cecco" Angiolieri (; – c. 1312) was an Italian poet. Biography Cecco Angiolieri was born in Siena in 1260, son of Angioliero, who was himself the son of Angioliero Solafìca who was for several years a banker to Pope Gregory IX; his ...
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Giulio Angioni Giulio Angioni (28 October 1939 – 12 January 2017) was an Italian writer and anthropologist. Biography Angioni was a leading Italian anthropologist, professor at the University of Cagliari and fellow of St Antony's College of the University o ...
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Ludovico Ariosto Ludovico Ariosto (, ; ; 8 September 1474 – 6 July 1533) was an Italian poet. He is best known as the author of the romance epic '' Orlando Furioso'' (1516). The poem, a continuation of Matteo Maria Boiardo's ''Orlando Innamorato'', describ ...
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Giovanni Arpino Giovanni Arpino (27 January 1927 – 10 December 1987) was an Italian writer and journalist. Life Born in Pula, Croatia to Piedmontese parents, Arpino moved to Bra in the Province of Cuneo. Here he married Caterina Brero before moving to Turin, ...
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Antonia Arslan Antonia Arslan (, born 1938) is an Italian writer and Professor, academic of Armenians, Armenian origin. Biography Arslan was born in Padua in 1938 to Michele Arslan and Vittoria Marchiori. Her paternal grandfather Yerwant Arslanian was born i ...
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Devorà Ascarelli Devorà Ascarelli was a 16th-century Italian poet living in Rome, Italy. Ascarelli was likely the first Jewish woman to have a book of her own work published. Biography Little is known about Devorà Ascarelli, and some of what is known is contra ...
(16th century)


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* Emma Baeri (born 1942) * Andrea Bajani(born 1975) * Alfredo Balducci (1920–2011) *
Barbara Baraldi Barbara Baraldi is an Italian mystery and fantasy writer. Biography A native of Mirandola, she currently lives near Modena. Her debut novel is ''La ragazza dalle ali di serpente'', published in 2007, under the pseudonym of Luna Lanzoni. As a noi ...
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Ermolao Barbaro Ermolao Barbaro, in Latin Hermolaus Barbarus (21 May 145414 June 1493), was a Venetian Renaissance humanist, diplomat and churchman. From 1491, he was the patriarch of Aquileia. He is often called "the Younger" to distinguish him from his cous ...
(1454–1493) * Ermolao Barbaro (bishop) (1410–1474) * Francesco Barbaro (1390–1454) *
Giosafat Barbaro Giosafat Barbaro (also spelled ''Giosaphat'' or ''Josaphat''; 1413–1494) was a member of the Venetian Barbaro family. He was a diplomat, merchant, explorer and travel writer.
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Marco Barbaro Marco Barbaro (1511 – 1570) was a member of the Venetian noble Barbaro family, and the author of ''Genealogie Patrizie'' and other works in Venetian.''Studies in the Renaissance'', Renaissance Society of America, 1974, University of Texas Press, ...
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Alessandro Baricco Alessandro Baricco (; born 25 January 1958) is an Italian writer, director and performer. His novels have been translated into a number of languages. Early life, family and education Baricco was born in Turin, Italy. He has earned degrees in ...
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Giorgio Bassani Giorgio Bassani (Bologna, 4 March 1916 – Rome, 13 April 2000) was an Italians, Italian novelist, poet, essayist, editor, and international intellectual. Biography Bassani was born in Bologna into a prosperous Jewish family of Ferrara, where h ...
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Cesare Beccaria Cesare Bonesana di Beccaria, Marquis of Gualdrasco and Villareggio (; 15 March 1738 – 28 November 1794) was an Italian criminologist, jurist, philosopher, economist, and politician who is widely considered one of the greatest thinkers of the ...
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Pietro Bembo Pietro Bembo, (; 20 May 1470 – 18 January 1547) was a Venetian scholar, poet, and literary theory, literary theorist who also was a member of the Knights Hospitaller and a cardinal of the Catholic Church. As an intellectual of the Italian Re ...
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Stefano Benni Stefano Benni (born 12 August 1947) is an Italian satirical writer, poet and journalist. His books have been translated into around 20 foreign languages and scored notable commercial success. 2.5 million copies of his books have been sold in I ...
(born 1947) * Mario Benzing (1896–1958) *
Giuseppe Berto Giuseppe Berto (27 December 1914 – 1 November 1978) was an Italian writer and screenwriter. He is mostly known for his novels ''The Sky Is Red'' (''Il cielo è rosso'') and ''Incubus'' (''Il male oscuro''). He was a prisoner at Camp Her ...
(1914–1978) * Enzo Bettiza (1927–2017) *
Enzo Biagi Enzo Biagi (; 9 August 1920 – 6 November 2007) was an Italian journalist, writer and former partisan. Life and career Biagi was born in Lizzano in Belvedere, and began his career as a journalist in Bologna. In 1952, he worked on the screenpl ...
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Luciano Bianciardi Luciano Bianciardi (; 14 December 1922 – 14 November 1971) was an Italian writer, journalist, translator and librarian. He contributed significantly to the cultural ferment in post-war Italy, working actively with various publishing houses, m ...
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Luther Blissett Luther Loide Blissett (born 1 February 1958) is a former professional association football, footballer and coach (sport), manager who played for the England national football team, England national team during the 1980s. Born in Jamaica, Bliss ...
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Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio ( , ; ; 16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian people, Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanism, Renaissance humanist. Born in the town of Certaldo, he became so ...
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Matteo Maria Boiardo Matteo Maria Boiardo (, ; 144019/20 December 1494) was an Italian Renaissance poet, best known for his epic poem ''Orlando innamorato''. Early life Boiardo was born in 1440, at or near, Scandiano (today's province of Reggio Emilia); the son of G ...
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Arrigo Boito Arrigo Boito (; born Enrico Giuseppe Giovanni Boito; 24 February 1842 10 June 1918) was an Italian librettist, composer, poet and critic whose only completed opera was ''Mefistofele''. Among the operas for which he wrote the libretto, libretti ar ...
(1842–1918) *
Camillo Boito Camillo Boito (; 30 October 1836 – 28 June 1914) was an Italian architect and engineer, and a noted art critic, art historian and novelist. He was the brother of Arrigo Boito, the friend and librettist of the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi. ...
(1836–1914) * Franco Bolelli (1950–2020) *
Vitaliano Brancati Vitaliano Brancati (; 24 July 1907 – 25 September 1954) was an Italian novelist, dramatist, poet and screenwriter. Biography Born in Pachino, Syracuse, Brancati studied in Catania, where he graduated in letters and where he spent most of h ...
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Enrico Brizzi Enrico Brizzi (born in Bologna, November 20, 1974) is an Italian writer. He is best known for his debut novel '' Jack Frusciante Has Left the Band'', which is so far the only one translated into English (along with other 23 languages). It also ...
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Giordano Bruno Giordano Bruno ( , ; ; born Filippo Bruno; January or February 1548 – 17 February 1600) was an Italian philosopher, poet, alchemist, astrologer, cosmological theorist, and esotericist. He is known for his cosmological theories, which concep ...
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Gesualdo Bufalino Gesualdo Bufalino (; 15 November 1920 – 14 June 1996), was an Italian writer who lived in Sicily for most of his life. Biography Bufalino was born in Comiso, Sicily. His father was a blacksmith. He went to school in Ragusa and attended Univers ...
(1920–1996) * Aldo Busi (born 1948) *
Dino Buzzati Dino Buzzati-Traverso (; 14 October 1906 – 28 January 1972) was an Italian novelist, short story writer, painter and poet, as well as a journalist for ''Corriere della Sera''. His worldwide fame is mostly due to his novel '' The Tartar St ...
(1906–1972)


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* Achille Giovanni Cagna (1847–1931) *
Roberto Calasso Roberto Calasso (30 May 1941 – 28 July 2021) was an Italian writer and publisher. Apart from his mother tongue, Calasso was fluent in French, English, Spanish, German, Latin and ancient Greek. He also studied Sanskrit. He has been called "a li ...
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Gianfranco Calligarich Gianfranco Calligarich (3 May 1939 – 25 November 2024) was an Italian novelist, screenwriter and dramatist. Life and career Born in Asmara to a family of Trieste origins, after the World War II Calligarich moved with his family to Milan, w ...
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Italo Calvino Italo Calvino (, ; ;. RAI (circa 1970), retrieved 25 October 2012. 15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian novelist and short story writer. His best-known works include the ''Our Ancestors'' trilogy (1952–1959), the '' Cosm ...
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Andrea Camilleri Andrea Calogero Camilleri (; 6 September 1925 – 17 July 2019) was an Italian writer best known for his Salvo Montalbano crime novels. Biography Originally from Porto Empedocle, Girgenti, Sicily, Camilleri began university studies in the ...
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Dino Campana Dino Campana (20 August 1885 – 1 March 1932) was an Italian visionary poet. His fame rests on his only published book of poetry, the '' Canti Orfici'' ("Orphic Songs"), as well as his wild and erratic personality, including his ill-fated love ...
(1885–1932) * Manuela Campanelli (born 1962) * Achille Campanile (1899–1977) *
Luigi Capuana Luigi Capuana (May 28, 1839 – November 29, 1915) was an Italian author and journalist and one of the main exponents of '' Verismo''. He was a contemporary of Giovanni Verga, both having been born in the province of Catania within a year of eac ...
(1839–1915) * Enrichetta Caracciolo (1821–1901) * Alberto Caramella (1928–2007) *
Giosuè Carducci Giosuè Alessandro Giuseppe Carducci (27 July 1835 – 16 February 1907) was an Italian poet, writer, literary critic and teacher. He was noticeably influential, and was regarded as the official national poet of modern Italy. In 1906, he became ...
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Nadia Cavalera Nadia Cavalera (born 20 September 1950 in Galatone, Lecce) is an Italian novelist, poet and literary critic. Cavalera attended the Liceo Classico "Palmieri" de Lecce and earned a bachelor's degree in Philosophy in the Università di Lecce, with ...
(born 1950) * Gianni Celati (1937–2022) *
Benvenuto Cellini Benvenuto Cellini (, ; 3 November 150013 February 1571) was an Italian goldsmith, sculptor, and author. His best-known extant works include the ''Cellini Salt Cellar'', the sculpture of ''Perseus with the Head of Medusa'', and his autobiography ...
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Vincenzo Cerami Vincenzo Cerami (2 November 1940 – 17 July 2013) was an Italian screenwriter A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a person who practices the craft of writing for visual mass media, known as screenwritin ...
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Paolo Cerrati Paolo Cerrati (or Cerrato) (1485–1540) was a lawyer and Latin language, Latin poet, best known for his long poem ''De Verginitate''. Born into a noble family of Alba (CN), Alba in north-west Italy, he is said to have studied belles lettres under ...
(1485–1540) * Guido Cervo (born 1952) *
Saveria Chemotti Saveria Chemotti (born April 5, 1947) is an Italian writer of non-fiction and prose. She is an essayist, novelist, and literary critic, as well as a researcher with a focus area of culture and gender studies. Biography Saveria Chemotti was born M ...
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John Ciardi John Anthony Ciardi ( ; ; June 24, 1916 – March 30, 1986) was an American poet, translator, and etymologist. While primarily known as a poet and translator of Dante's ''Divine Comedy'', he also wrote several volumes of children's poetry, pursu ...
(1916–1986) * Pietro Citati (1930–2022) *
Carlo Collodi Carlo Lorenzini (; 24 November 1826 – 26 October 1890), better known by the pen name Carlo Collodi ( ; ), was an Italian author, humourist, and journalist, widely known for his fairy tale novel '' The Adventures of Pinocchio''. Early lif ...
(1826–1890) *
Vincenzo Consolo Vincenzo Consolo (18 February 1933 – 21 January 2012) was an Italian writer. Consolo was born in Sant'Agata di Militello but resided in Milan from 1969 until his death. He began his literary career in 1963, but gained wider attention in 197 ...
(1933–2012) * Matteo Corradini (born 1975) *
Benedetto Croce Benedetto Croce, ( , ; 25 February 1866 – 20 November 1952) was an Italian idealist philosopher, historian, and politician who wrote on numerous topics, including philosophy, history, historiography, and aesthetics. A Cultural liberalism, poli ...
(1866–1952)


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Jacopone da Todi Jacopone da Todi ( – 25 December 1306) was an Italian people, Italian Franciscan friar from Umbria. He wrote several :it:Laude (Jacopone da Todi), ''laude'' (songs in praise of the God, Lord) in the local vernacular. He was an early pionee ...
(1230–1306) * Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863–1938) *
Massimo D'Azeglio Massimo Taparelli, Marquess of Azeglio (24 October 1798 – 15 January 1866), commonly called Massimo d'Azeglio (), was a Piedmontese-Italian statesman, novelist, and painter. He was Prime Minister of Sardinia for almost three years until succee ...
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Edmondo De Amicis Edmondo De Amicis (; 21 October 1846 – 11 March 1908) was an Italian novelist, journalist, poet, and short-story writer. His best-known book is the children's novel ''Heart''. Early career Born in Oneglia (today part of the city of Imperia), h ...
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Giacomo Debenedetti Giacomo Debenedetti (Biella, 25 June 1901 – Rome, 20 January 1967) was an Italian writer, essayist and literary critic. He was one of the greatest interpreters of literary criticism in Italy in the 20th century, one of the first to embrace the l ...
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Andrea De Carlo Andrea De Carlo (born 11 December 1952) is an Italian novelist. He has published almost two dozen novels, many of which have been translated. Biography Andrea De Carlo grew up in Milan. He attended the ''liceo classico'' Giovanni Berchet (whic ...
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Grazia Deledda Grazia Maria Cosima Damiana Deledda (; or Gràtzia Deledda ; 27 September 1871 – 15 August 1936) was an Italian writer who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926 "for her idealistically inspired writings which with plastic clarity p ...
(1871–1936) * Massimo del Pizzo (born - ) *
Silvana De Mari Silvana De Mari (born 5 July 1953) is an Italian writer of children's fiction and a struck off surgeon and Psychotherapy, psychotherapist. She is also known as the author of ''L'ultimo Elfo'' (2004), an award-winning fantasy novel published in E ...
(born 1953) * Sergio De Santis (born 1953) * Raffaella de' Sernigi (1473–1557) *
Jacobus de Voragine Jacobus de Voragine, OP (13/16 July 1298) was an Italian chronicler and archbishop of Genoa. He was the author, or more accurately the compiler, of the '' Golden Legend'', a collection of the legendary lives of the greater saints of the mediev ...
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Paola Drigo Paola (''née'' Bianchetti) Drigo (4 January 1876 – 4 January 1938) was an Italian writer of short stories, novellas, and novels. Her first collection of short stories, ''La fortuna'', was published in 1913 and caught the attention of literary c ...
(1876–1938)


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Umberto Eco Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian Medieval studies, medievalist, philosopher, Semiotics, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular ...
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Muzi Epifani Maria Luisa Gabriella Epifani, better known as Muzi Epifani (March 18, 1935 – February 12, 1984), was an Italian writer and poet. Biography Muzi Epifani was born in Benghazi, Libya. She studied literature and philosophy at the Heidelberg Un ...
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Valerio Evangelisti Valerio Evangelisti (20 June 1952 – 18 April 2022) was an Italian writer of science fiction, fantasy, historical novels, and horror. He is known mainly for his series of novels featuring the inquisitor Nicolas Eymerich and for the Nostradamu ...
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Julius Evola Giulio Cesare Andrea "Julius" Evola (; 19 May 1898 – 11 June 1974) was an Italian far-right philosopher and writer. Evola regarded his values as Traditionalist conservatism, traditionalist, Aristocracy, aristocratic, War, martial and Empire, im ...
(1898–1974)


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* Francesco Falconi (born 1976) *
Giorgio Faletti Giorgio Faletti (; 25 November 1950 – 4 July 2014) was an Italian writer, musician, actor and comedian. Born in Asti, Piedmont, he lived on Elba Island. His books have been translated into 25 languages and published with great success in Europ ...
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Oriana Fallaci Oriana Fallaci (; 29 June 1929 – 15 September 2006) was an Italian journalist and author. A member of the Italian resistance movement during World War II, she had a long and successful journalistic career. Fallaci became famous worldwide for h ...
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Beppe Fenoglio Giuseppe "Beppe" Fenoglio (; 1 March 1922 – 18 February 1963) was an Italian writer, partisan and translator from English. The works of Fenoglio have two main themes: the rural world of the Langhe, where he was born and raised, and the Italia ...
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Caterina Franceschi Ferrucci Caterina Franceschi Ferrucci (Narni, 26 January 1803 – Florence, 28 February 1887) was an Italians, Italian writer, poet, patriot, and educator. Biography Caterina Franceschi was the daughter of Antonio Franceschi and the Countess Maria Spada ...
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Ennio Flaiano Ennio Flaiano (5 March 1910 – 20 November 1972) was an Italian screenwriter, playwright, novelist, journalist, and drama critic. Best known for his work with Federico Fellini, Flaiano co-wrote ten screenplays with the Italian director, includi ...
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Dario Fo Dario Luigi Angelo Fo (; 24 March 1926 – 13 October 2016) was an Italian playwright, actor, theatre director, stage designer, songwriter, political campaigner for the Italian left wing and the recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature. ...
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Antonio Fogazzaro Antonio Fogazzaro (; 25 March 1842 – 7 March 1911) was an Italian novelist and proponent of Liberal Catholicism. Fogazzaro has been called "the most eminent Italian novelist since Manzoni." He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature sev ...
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Marcello Fois Marcello Fois (born 20 January 1960) is an Italians, Italian writer. He was born in Nuoro in Sardinia and studied at the University of Bologna. His first novel ''Ferro Recente'' was published in 1989. A prolific author, he has also written scripts ...
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Bruno Forte Bruno Forte (born 1 August 1949) is an Italian Catholic prelate who has served as Archbishop of Chieti-Vasto since 2004. Biography Archbishop Forte was born in Naples. He was ordained a priest on 18 April 1973. He studied at Tübingen Universi ...
(born 1949) *
Ugo Foscolo Ugo Foscolo (; 6 February 177810 September 1827), born Niccolò Foscolo, was an Italian writer, revolutionary and poet. He is especially remembered for his 1807 long poem ''Dei Sepolcri''. Early life Foscolo was born in Zakynthos in the Ionia ...
(1778–1827) *
Carlo Fruttero Carlo Fruttero (19 September 1926 – 15 January 2012) was an Italian writer, journalist, translator and editor of anthologies. Fruttero was born in Turin, Italy. He is mostly known for his joint work with Franco Lucentini, especially as authors ...
(1926–2012)


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Carlo Emilio Gadda Carlo Emilio Gadda (; 14 November 1893 – 21 May 1973) was an Italian writer and poet. He belongs to the tradition of the language innovators, writers who played with the somewhat stiff standard pre-war Italian language, and added elements of di ...
(1893–1973) * Barbara Gallavotti (born 1968) * Pietro Luigi Galletti (1724-1790) *
Natalia Ginzburg Natalia Ginzburg (, ; ; 14 July 1916 – 7 October 1991) 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 stories and essays, f ...
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Paolo Giordano Paolo Giordano (born 1982) is an Italian writer who won the Premio Strega literary award with his debut novel, first novel ''The Solitude of Prime Numbers (novel), The Solitude of Prime Numbers''. Biography Paolo Giordano was born on 19 Dec ...
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Cinzia Giorgio Cinzia Giorgio (born April 1, 1975, in Venosa, Province of Potenza) is an Italian writer. Biography Cinzia Giorgio was born in Venosa, Italy, in April 1975. She has a degree in modern literature at University of Naples Federico II, her thesis ...
(born 1975) * Raffaello Giovagnoli (1838–1915) * Guglielmo il Giuggiola (16th century) * Giambattista Giraldi Cinzio (1504–1573) *
Carlo Goldoni Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni (, also , ; 25 February 1707 – 6 February 1793) was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays ...
(1707–1793) * Corrado Govoni (1884–1965) *
Guido Gozzano Guido Gustavo Gozzano (; 19 December 1883 – 9 August 1916) was an Italian poet and writer. Biography He was born in Turin, the son of Fausto Gozzano, an engineer, and of Diodata Mautino, the daughter of Senator Mautino, patriot and supporter ...
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Giovannino Guareschi Giovannino Oliviero Giuseppe Guareschi (; 1 May 1908 – 22 July 1968) was an Italian journalist, cartoonist, and humorist whose best known creation is the priest Don Camillo and Peppone, Don Camillo. Life and career Guareschi was born into a ...
(1908–1968) * Robert "Bobby" Germaine (1925–1986) *
Tonino Guerra Antonio "Tonino" Guerra (16 March 1920 – 21 March 2012) was an Italian poet, writer and screenwriter who collaborated with some of the most prominent film directors, such as Andrei Tarkovsky, Michelangelo Antonioni, Theo Angelopoulos, and Fede ...
(1920–2012)


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* Petrus Haedus (1427–1504)


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Ibn Hamdis Ibn Ḥamdīs al-ʾAzdī al-Ṣīqillī (; c. 1056 – c. 1133) was a Sicilian Arab poet. Ibn Hamdis was born in Syracuse, south eastern Sicily, around 447 AH (1056 AD). Little is known of his youth, which can be reconstructed only through ...
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Fleur Jaeggy Fleur Jaeggy (born 31 July 1940) is a Swiss author who writes in Italian. ''The Times Literary Supplement'' named her novel ''Proleterka'' a Best Book of the Year upon its publication in the United States, and her ''Sweet Days of Discipline'' w ...
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Tommaso Landolfi Tommaso Landolfi (9 August 1908 – 8 July 1979) was an Italian writer, translator and literary critic. His numerous grotesque tales and novels, sometimes on the border of speculative fiction, science fiction and realism, place him in a unique ...
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Brunetto Latini Brunetto Latini (who signed his name ''Burnectus Latinus'' in Latin and ''Burnecto Latino'' in Italian; –1294) was an Italian philosopher, scholar, notary, politician and statesman. He was a teacher and friend of Dante Alighieri. Life Brunetto ...
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Bruno Leoni Bruno Leoni (26 April 1913 – 21 November 1967) was an Italian classical-liberal political philosopher and lawyer. Whilst the war kept Leoni away from teaching, in 1945 he became Full professor of Philosophy of Law. Leoni was also appointed Dean ...
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Giacomo Leopardi Count Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi (29 June 1798 – 14 June 1837) was an Italian philosopher, poet, essayist, and philologist. Considered the greatest Italian poet of the 19th century and one of the greatest a ...
(1798–1837) * Franco Loi (1930–2021) *
Carlo Levi Carlo Levi () (29 November 1902 – 4 January 1975) was an Italian painter, writer, activist, Independent Left (Italy), independent leftist politician, and doctor. He is best known for his book ''Christ Stopped at Eboli (novel), Cristo si è fe ...
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Primo Levi Primo Michele Levi (; 31 July 1919 – 11 April 1987) was a Jewish Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor and writer. He was the author of several books, collections of short stories, essays, poems and one novel. His best-known works i ...
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Giuseppe Lombardo Radice Giuseppe Lombardo Radice (Catania, June 24, 1879 - Cortina d'Ampezzo, August 16, 1938) was an Italian pedagogist and philosopher. Early life and career He was born in Catania on June 24, 1879 (but his birth was registered late, on June 28) to Luci ...
1879–1938) *
Carlo Lucarelli Carlo Lucarelli (born 26 October 1960) is an Italian crime-writer, TV presenter, and magazine editor. In 2003, his novel ''Almost Blue'' was shortlisted for the Gold Dagger award given by the Crime Writers' Association. Early life Lucarelli wa ...
(born 1960) *
Emilio Lussu Emilio Lussu (4 December 1890 – 5 March 1975) was a Sardinian people, Sardinian and Italian writer, anti-fascist intellectual, military officer, Italian resistance movement, partisan, and politician. He is also the author of the novel ''One Yea ...
(1890–1975)


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Niccolò Machiavelli Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527) was a Florentine diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian who lived during the Italian Renaissance. He is best known for his political treatise '' The Prince'' (), writte ...
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Alessandra Macinghi Strozzi Alessandra Macinghi Strozzi ( – March ) was a Florentine Renaissance business and noblewoman known for her preserved correspondence which chronicled her financial and political struggles in Medici Florence. Strozzi was largely family oriented an ...
(1406–1471) *
Claudio Magris Claudio Magris (; born 10 April 1939) is an Italian scholar, translator and writer. He was a senator for Friuli-Venezia Giulia from 1994 to 1996. Life Magris graduated from the University of Turin, where he studied German studies, and has been ...
(born 1939) * Maria Majocchi (1864–1917) * Clementina Laura Majocchi (1866–1945) *
Curzio Malaparte Curzio Malaparte (; born Kurt Erich Suckert; 9 June 1898 – 19 July 1957) was an Italian writer, filmmaker, war correspondent and diplomat. Malaparte is best known outside Italy due to his works '' Kaputt'' (1944) and '' The Skin'' (1949). The ...
(1898–1957) * Marco Malvaldi (born 1974) *
Valerio Massimo Manfredi Valerio Massimo Manfredi (born 8 March 1943) is an Italian historian, writer, essayist, archaeologist and journalist. Biography He was born in Piumazzo di Castelfranco Emilia province of Modena and, after getting a degree in Classical Arts at ...
(born 1943) *
Giorgio Manganelli Giorgio Manganelli (15 November 1922 – 28 May 1990) was an Italian journalist, avant-garde writer, translator and literary critic. A native of Milan, he was one of the leaders of the avant-garde literary movement in Italy in the 1960s, Gruppo ...
(1922 - 1990) * Fabio Maniscalco (1965–2008) *
Gianna Manzini Gianna Manzini (24 March 1896 – 31 August 1974) was an Italian writer whose ''Ritratto in piedi'' won her the Premio Campiello in 1971. It is a semi-autobiographical portrait of her father, an Italian anarchist. After several banishments for hi ...
(1896–1974) *
Alessandro Manzoni Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio Manzoni (, , ; 7 March 1785 – 22 May 1873) was an Italian poet, novelist and philosopher. He is famous for the novel ''The Betrothed (Manzoni novel), The Betrothed'' (orig. ) (1827), generally ranked among ...
(1785–1873) *
Dacia Maraini Dacia Maraini (; born November 13, 1936) is an Italian writer. Maraini's work focuses on women's issues, and she has written numerous plays and novels. She has won awards for her work, including the Formentor Prize for ''L'età del malessere'' ...
(born 1936) *
Fosco Maraini Fosco Maraini (; 15 November 1912 – 8 June 2004) was an Italian photographer, anthropologist, ethnologist, writer, mountaineer and academic. Biography He was born in Florence from the Italian sculptor Antonio Maraini (1886–1963) and Cornelia ...
(1912–2004) *
Diego Marani Diego Marani (born 1959) is an Italian novelist and European civil servant. Biography Born in Tresigallo, Marani attended the Liceo Ginnasio Ariosto in Ferrara till 1978 and graduated in interpretation and translation from the ''Scuola superior ...
(born 1959) *
Lucrezia Marinella Lucrezia Marinella (1571-1653) was a poet, writer, philosopher, polemicist, and women's rights advocate from the Republic of Venice. She is best known for her polemical treatise ''The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects and Vices of ...
(1571–1653) * Stefano Massini (born 1975) * Chiara Matraini (1515–1604) *
Margaret Mazzantini Margaret Mazzantini (; born 27 October 1961) is an Italian-Irish writer and actress. She became a film, television and stage actor, but is best known as a writer. Mazzantini began her acting career in 1980 starring in the cult horror classic '' ...
(born 1961) *
Carlo Mazzoni Carlo Mazzoni (born 9 July 1979) is an Italian novelist. Life Carlo Mazzoni was born and lives in Milan. In 2003 he graduated in Medicine and Surgery at University of Milan. Carlo Mazzoni studied music and graduated at Conservatorio Vivaldi, A ...
(born 1979) * Melania Mazzucco (born 1966) *
Fulvio Melia Fulvio Melia (born 2 August 1956) is an Italy, Italian-Americans, American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author. He is professor of physics, astronomy and the applied math program at the University of Arizona and was a scientific editor of ''T ...
(born 1956) * Maria Messina (1887–1944) * Mina Mezzadri (1926–2008) * Grazyna Miller (1957–2009) *
Franco Mimmi Franco Mimmi (born 15 August 1942 in Bologna, Italy) 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'' and ''L'Unità' ...
(born 1942) *
Federico Moccia Federico Moccia (born 20 July 1963) is an Italian writer, screenwriter and film director. His father Giuseppe Moccia was also a screenwriter and director. Following his successful book and film ' many people put love padlocks on Ponte Milvio in ...
(born 1963) *
Massimo Mongai Massimo Mongai (3 November 1950 – 1 November 2016) was an Italian writer of science fiction and crime fiction. Biography Born in Rome, by the age of 12, Massimo Mongai was a dedicated reader of science fiction. He graduated in law. According ...
(1950–2016) *
Beatrice Monroy Beatrice Monroy (born 1953) is an Italian writer and dramatist. Biography Beatrice Monroy was born and lives in Palermo, having spent many years in various Italian cities and abroad in France and the United States. She is the daughter of Anna ...
(born 1953) * Valeria Montaldi (born 19??) *
Eugenio Montale Eugenio Montale (; 12 October 1896 – 12 September 1981) was an Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator. In 1975, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 'for his distinctive poetry which, with great artistic sensitivity, has ...
(1896–1981) *
Maria Montessori Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori ( ; ; 31 August 1870 – 6 May 1952) was an Italians, Italian physician and educator best known for her philosophy of education (the Montessori method) and her writing on scientific pedagogy. At an early a ...
(1870–1952) * Giuliana Morandini (1938–2019) *
Elsa Morante Elsa Morante (; 18 August 1912 – 25 November 1985) was an Italian novelist, poet, translator and children's books author. Her novel '' La storia'' (''History'') is included in the Bokklubben World Library List of 100 Best Books of All Time. L ...
(1912–1985) * Olympia Morata (1526–1555) *
Alberto Moravia Alberto Pincherle (; 28 November 1907 – 26 September 1990), known by his pseudonym Alberto Moravia ( , ), was an Italian novelist and journalist. His novels explored matters of modern sexuality, social alienation and existentialism. Moravia i ...
(1907–1990) * Marta Morazzoni (born 1950) * Antonio Moresco (born 1947) *
Michela Murgia Michela Murgia (, ; 3 June 1972 – 10 August 2023) was an Italian novelist, playwright, and radio personality. She was a winner of the Campiello Prize, the Mondello International Literary Prize and , and was an active feminist and left-wing v ...
(1972–2023)


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*Neera ( Anna Radius Zuccari) (1846–1918) *
Ada Negri Ada Negri (3 February 187011 January 1945) was an Italian poet and writer. She was the only woman to be admitted to the Academy of Italy. Biography Ada Negri was born in Lodi, Italy on 3 February 1870. Her father, Giuseppe Negri, was a coachm ...
(1870–1945) *
Ippolito Nievo Ippolito Nievo (; 30 November 1831 – 4 March 1861) was an Italians, Italian writer, journalist and patriot. His ''Confessions of an Italian'' is widely considered the most important novel about the Italian ''Italian unification, Risorgimento'' ...
(1831–1861)


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Aldo Palazzeschi Aldo Giurlani (; 2 February 1885 – 17 August 1974), known by the pen name Aldo Palazzeschi (), was an Italian novelist, poet, journalist and essayist. Biography He was born in Florence to a well-off, bourgeois family. Following his father's ...
(1885–1974) *
Giancarlo Pallavicini Giancarlo Pallavicini (Desio, February 12, 1931) is an Italian Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** Italians, a Romance ethnic group related to or simply a citizen of the Italian Re ...
(born 1931) *
Angeliki Palli Angelica Palli (1798 – 1875) was an Italian writer of Greek ancestry, translator and early feminist. Her literary salon attracted intellectuals of the time. Biography The daughter of a rich Greek merchant, she was born in Livorno, Tuscany ...
(1798–1875) *
Melissa Panarello Melissa Panarello (born 3 December 1985, in Catania, Italy), alias Melissa P., is an Italian writer. Biography Panarello grew up in the small Sicilian town of Aci Castello, near Catania in Italy. In 2003, she became famous for authoring the ...
(born 1985) *
Giovanni Papini Giovanni Papini (9 January 18818 July 1956) was an Italian journalist, essayist, novelist, short story writer, poet, literary critic, and Italian philosophy, philosopher. A controversial literary figure of the early and mid-twentieth century, he ...
(1881–1956) *
Giovanni Pascoli Giovanni Placido Agostino Pascoli (; 31 December 1855 – 6 April 1912) was an Italian poet, classical scholar and an emblematic figure of Italian literature in the late nineteenth century. Alongside Gabriele D'Annunzio, he was one of the grea ...
(1855–1912) *
Pier Paolo Pasolini Pier Paolo Pasolini (; 5 March 1922 – 2 November 1975) was an Italian poet, film director, writer, actor and playwright. He is considered one of the defining public intellectuals in 20th-century Italian history, influential both as an artist ...
(1922–1975) *
Cesare Pavese Cesare Pavese ( ; ; 9 September 1908 – 27 August 1950) was an Italian novelist, poet, short story writer, translator, literary critic, and essayist. He is often referred to as one of the most influential Italian writers of his time. Early ...
(1908–1950) *
Roberto Pazzi Roberto Pazzi (18 August 1946 – 2 December 2023) was an Italian novelist and poet. His works have been translated into twenty-six languages. He was widely recognized in Italian literary circles for his poetry and novels. His debut novel, ''Cer ...
(born 1946) *
Silvio Pellico Silvio Pellico (; 24 June 1789 – 31 January 1854) was an Italian writer, poet, dramatist and patriot active in the Italian unification. Biography Silvio Pellico was born in Saluzzo, Piedmont. He spent the earlier portion of his life at Pi ...
(1789–1854) *
Danilo Pennone Danilo Pennone (born July 14, 1963, in Rome) is an Italian writer. Biography An Arts graduate, Pennone teaches in Rome. His first published works, essays on Celtic mythology, date back to the eighties. In 2008, his first novel, ''Confessioni di ...
(born 1963) *
Frank Peretti Frank Edward Peretti (born January 13, 1951) is a ''New York Times'' best-selling author of Christian fiction, whose novels primarily focus on the supernatural and spiritual warfare. , his works have sold over 15 million copies worldwide. He has ...
(born 1951) *
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Giovanni Pico dei conti della Mirandola e della Concordia ( ; ; ; 24 February 146317 November 1494), known as Pico della Mirandola, was an Italian Renaissance nobleman and philosopher. He is famed for the events of 1486, when, at the age of 23, ...
(1463–1494) *
Tommaso Pincio Tommaso Pincio is the pseudonym of Marco Colapietro (born May 1, 1963), an Italian author of five novels, including ''Love-shaped story''. Pseudonym "Tommaso Pincio" is obviously an Italian rendering of Thomas Pynchon's name but this is not th ...
(born 1963) *
Luigi Pirandello Luigi Pirandello (; ; 28 June 1867 – 10 December 1936) was an Italians, Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer whose greatest contributions were his plays. He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his bold and ...
(1867–1936) *
Fernanda Pivano Fernanda Pivano (18 July 1917 – 18 August 2009) was an Italian writer, journalist, translator and critic. Early life Pivano was born in Genoa in 1917. When she was a teenager she moved with her family to Turin where she attended the Massimo ...
(1917–2009) *
Joseph Pivato Joseph Pivato (born February 1946, in Tezze sul Brenta, Italy) is a Canadian writer and academic who first established the critical recognition of Italian-Canadian literature and changed perceptions of Canadian writing. From 1977 to 2015 he was ...
(born 1946) *
Angelo Poliziano Agnolo (or Angelo) Ambrogini (; 14 July 1454 – 24 September 1494), commonly known as Angelo Poliziano () or simply Poliziano, anglicized as Politian, was an Italian classical scholar and poet of the Florentine Renaissance. His scholars ...
(1454–1494) *
Marco Polo Marco Polo (; ; ; 8 January 1324) was a Republic of Venice, Venetian merchant, explorer and writer who travelled through Asia along the Silk Road between 1271 and 1295. His travels are recorded in ''The Travels of Marco Polo'' (also known a ...
(1254–1324) *
Vasco Pratolini Vasco Pratolini (19 October 1913 – 12 January 1991) was an Italian writer of the 20th century. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times. Biography Born in Florence, Pratolini worked at various jobs before entering the l ...
(1913–1991) *
Hugo Pratt Ugo Eugenio Prat (15 June 1927 – 20 August 1995), better known as Hugo Pratt, was an Italian comic book creator who was known for combining strong storytelling with extensive historical research on works such as '' Corto Maltese''. He was indu ...
(1927–1995) *
Mario Praz Sir Mario Praz (; 6 September 1896, Rome – 23 March 1982, Rome) was an Italian critic of art and literature, and a scholar of English literature. His best-known book, ''The Romantic Agony'' (1933), was a comprehensive survey of the decadent, ...
(1896–1982) * Ottavio Profeta (1890–1963) *
Luigi Pulci Luigi Pulci (; 15 August 1432 – 11 November 1484) was an Italian diplomat and poet best known for his '' Morgante'', an epic and parodistic poem about a giant who is converted to Christianity by Orlando and follows the knight in many adventu ...
(1432–1484)


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Roberto Quaglia Roberto Quaglia (born 17 May 1962) 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, Czech, Hungarian and Dutch. Life ...
(born 1962) *
Salvatore Quasimodo Salvatore Quasimodo (; 20 August 1901 – 14 June 1968) was an Italian poet and translator, awarded the 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times" ...
(1901–1968)


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Lidia Ravera Lidia Ravera (born 6 February 1951, Turin, Piedmont) is an Italian writer, journalist, essayist and screenwriter. Ravera has been a regular contributor to the italian edition of ''Cosmopolitan''. Her most popular novel, ''Porci con le ali'' (''Win ...
(born 1951) *
Mario Rigoni Stern Mario Rigoni Stern (1 November 1921 – 16 June 2008) was an Italian author and World War II veteran. Biography He was born and grew up on the Asiago plateau in North East Italy. In 1938, after being rejected for service in the Navy, he enrol ...
(1921–2008) *
Gianni Rodari Giovanni Francesco "Gianni" Rodari (; 23 October 1920 – 14 April 1980) was an Italian people, Italian writer and journalist, most famous for his works of children's literature, notably ''Il romanzo di Cipollino''. For his lasting contribution ...
(1920–1980) * Lalla Romano (1906–2001) *
Emanuela Da Ros Emanuela Da Ros is a journalist and Italian writer of children's books. She graduated in art history with a thesis on ancient Byzantine art at the University of Padua in 1985. Then she became an Italian teacher in a high-school in Vittorio Ve ...
(born 1959)


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Umberto Saba Umberto Saba (9 March 1883 – 25 August 1957) was an Italian poet and novelist, born Umberto Poli in the cosmopolitan Mediterranean port of Trieste when it was the fourth largest city of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Poli assumed the pen name "S ...
(1883–1957) *
Emilio Salgari Emilio Salgari (, but often erroneously ; 21 August 1862 – 25 April 1911) was an Italian writer of action adventure swashbucklers and a pioneer of science fiction. In Italy, his extensive body of work was more widely read than that of Dante ...
(1862–1911) *
Rubino Romeo Salmonì Rubino Romeo Salmonì (22 January 1920 – 10 July 2011) was an Italian author known for his book ''In the End, I Beat Hitler'', based on his experiences as a survivor of Auschwitz II–Birkenau during the Holocaust. Biography An Italian Jew, Sal ...
(1920–2011) * Emilia Salvioni (1895–1967) *
Alberto Savinio Alberto Savinio , born as Andrea Francesco Alberto de Chirico (25 August 1891 – 5 May 1952) was a Greek-Italian writer, painter, musician, journalist, essayist, playwright, set designer and composer. He was the younger brother of 'metaphysical ...
(1891–1952) *
Leonardo Sciascia Leonardo Sciascia (; 8 January 1921 – 20 November 1989) was an Italian writer, novelist, essayist, playwright, and politician. Some of his works have been made into films, including '' Porte Aperte'' (1990; ''Open Doors''), '' Cadaveri Eccellen ...
(1921–1989) *
Matilde Serao image:Picture of Matilde Serao.jpg, Matilde Serao, by "Rossi" Matilde Serao (; ; 14 March 1856 – 25 July 1927) was an Italian journalist and novelist. She was the first woman called to edit an Italian newspaper, Il ''Corriere di Roma'' and late ...
(1856–1927) *
Beppe Severgnini Giuseppe "Beppe" Severgnini (; born 26 December 1956) is an Italian journalist, essayist, and columnist. Biography Born in Crema, Lombardy, Severgnini graduated in law at the University of Pavia. His father was a public notary. His career i ...
(born 1956) *
Ignazio Silone Secondino Tranquilli (1 May 1900 – 22 August 1978), best known by the pseudonym Ignazio Silone (, ), was an Italian politician, novelist, essayist, playwright, and short-story writer, world-famous during World War II for his powerful anti-fasci ...
(1900–1978) *
Mario Soldati Mario Soldati (17 November 1906 – 19 June 1999) was an Italian writer and film director. In 1954, he won the Strega Prize for ''Lettere da Capri.'' He directed several works adapted from novels, and worked with leading Italian actresses, s ...
(1906–1999) *
Mario Spezi Mario Spezi (July 30, 1945 – September 9, 2016) was an Italian journalist, author, illustrator, and caricaturist. He wrote the non-fiction true crime books Dolci Colline di Sangue (2006) and ''Il Mostro di Firenze'' (1983). He was a co-author ...
(1945–2016) *
Italo Svevo Aron Hector Schmitz (19 December 186113 September 1928), better known by the pseudonym Italo Svevo (), was an Italian and Austro-Hungarian writer, businessman, novelist, playwright, and short story writer. A close friend of Irish novelist and ...
(1861–1928) *
Roberto Saviano Roberto Saviano (; born 22 September 1979) is an Italian writer, journalist, and screenwriter. In his writings, including articles and his book ''Gomorrah (book), Gomorrah'', he uses literature and investigative reporting to tell of the economic ...
(born 1979)


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Antonio Tabucchi Antonio Tabucchi (; 24 September 1943 – 25 March 2012) was an Italian writer and academic who taught Portuguese language and literature at the University of Siena, Italy. Deeply in love with Portugal, he was an expert, critic and translator o ...
(1943–2012) *
Susanna Tamaro Susanna Tamaro (; born 12 December 1957) is an Italian novelist and film director. She is an author of novels, stories, magazine articles, and children's literature. Her novel (''Follow Your Heart'') was a worldwide bestseller, translated into 44 ...
(born 1957) *
Torquato Tasso Torquato Tasso ( , also , ; 11 March 154425 April 1595) was an Italian poet of the 16th century, known for his 1591 poem ''Gerusalemme liberata'' (Jerusalem Delivered), in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between ...
(1544–1595) *
Tiziano Terzani Tiziano Terzani (; 14 September 1938 – 28 July 2004) was an Italian journalist and writer, best known for his extensive knowledge of 20th century East Asia and for being one of the very few western reporters to witness both the fall of Saigon ...
(1938–2004) *
Roberto Tiraboschi Roberto Tiraboschi is an List of Italian writers, Italian writer, playwright and screenwriter. He was born in Bergamo, Lombardy, in 1958. Currently he splits his time between Rome and Venice. Life In 1976 Tiraboschi graduated in Literature, L ...
(born 1951) *
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Giuseppe Tomasi, 11th Prince of Lampedusa, 12th Duke of Palma, GE (23 December 1896 – 23 July 1957), known as Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (), was a Sicilian writer, nobleman, and Prince of Lampedusa. He is most famous for his only novel, '' ...
(1896–1957) *
Fulvio Tomizza Fulvio Tomizza (26 January 1935 – 21 May 1999) was an Italian writer. He was born in Giurizzani di Materada in Istria, to a middle-class family. His mother was Margherita Frank Trento, born into a poor family of Slavic extraction. His father, ...
(1935–1999) * Pier Vittorio Tondelli (1955–1991) *
Marco Travaglio Marco Travaglio (; born 13 October 1964) is an Italian journalist, writer, and pundit. Since 2015, he has been the editor-in-chief of the independent daily newspaper '' Il Fatto Quotidiano''. Travaglio began his journalistic career in the lat ...
(born 1964)


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Luigi Ugolini Luigi Ugolini (25 June 1891 – 22 June 1980) was an Italian writer. He is best known for his series of fictionalized biographies of Italian leaders in art and science, and for a volume of work that immortalizes traditions, values and ways of lif ...
(1891–1980) *
Giuseppe Ungaretti Giuseppe Ungaretti (; 8 February 1888 – 2 June 1970) was an Italian modernist poet, journalist, essayist, critic, academic, and recipient of the inaugural 1970 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. A leading representative of the experi ...
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Giorgio van Straten Giorgio van Straten (born 1955) is an Italian writer and manager of arts organizations. His first novel ''Generazione'' was published in 1987. In 2000 he won four literary prizes for ''Il mio nome a memoria'', published in English as ''My Name, A ...
(born 1955) *
Giovanni Verga Giovanni Carmelo Verga di Fontanabianca (; 2 September 1840 – 27 January 1922) was an Italian Literary realism, realist (''Verismo (literature), verista'') writer. His novels ''I Malavoglia'' (1881) and ''Mastro-don Gesualdo'' (1889) are widel ...
(1840–1922) * Grazia Verasani (born 1964), crime writer *
Giuseppe Vergani Giuseppe Carlo Vergani (fl. 1738–1741) was an Italian accountant and writer from Milan. Life He was an official and a public professor of arithmetic and geometry. Vergani published two significant works on accounting Accounting, also ...
* Sandro Veronesi (born 1959) *
Anna Vertua Gentile Anna Vertua Gentile (1850 (some sources say 1845) – 23 November 1926) was an Italian writer. She was born in Dongo and began writing around 1868. Her first known work is ''Letture educative per Fanciulle'' (Educative letters for Girls) publ ...
(1850–1926) *
Mitì Vigliero Lami Mitì Vigliero Lami (born 1957) is an Italian journalist, writer, and poet. Born Maria Teresa Bianca Agata Anita (nickname, "Miti") in Turin, Italy, she has lived in Genoa since 1980. Her areas of experienced include journalist of society, folklo ...
(born 1957) * Simona Vinci (born 1970) *
Ottavia Vitagliano Ottavia Vitagliano (née: Mellone; 1894–1975) was an Italian writer, editor and publisher. The daughter of Igino Mellone and Giulia Piacentini, she was born in Milan. She became manager for her own publishing house and founded and edited various ...
(1894–1975) *
Elio Vittorini Elio Vittorini (; 23 July 1908 – 12 February 1966) was an Italian writer and novelist. He was a contemporary of Cesare Pavese and an influential voice in the modernist school of novel writing. His best-known work, in English speaking countries ...
(1908–1966) *
Paolo Volponi Paolo Volponi (6 February 1924 – 23 August 1994) was an Italian writer, poet, and politician. Biography Volponi was born on 6 February 1924, in Urbino, Italy. He joined the Italian partisans in 1943. He studied law at Urbino University, w ...
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Wu Ming Wu Ming, Chinese language, Chinese for "anonymous", is a pseudonym for a group of Italian authors formed in 2000 from a subset of the Luther Blissett (nom de plume), Luther Blissett community in Bologna. Four of the group earlier wrote the nove ...


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See also

* List of Italian women writers *
Italian literature Italian literature is written in the Italian language, particularly within Italy. It may also refer to literature written by Italians or in other languages spoken in Italy, often languages that are closely related to modern Italian, including ...
* List of Italian language poets *
Lists of authors The following are lists of writers: Alphabetical indices A – B – C – D – E – F – G – H – I – J – K – L – M – N – O – P  ...


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