Melissa Panarello (born 3 December 1985, in
Catania
Catania (, , , Sicilian and ) is the second-largest municipality on Sicily, after Palermo, both by area and by population. Despite being the second city of the island, Catania is the center of the most densely populated Sicilian conurbation, wh ...
, Italy), alias Melissa P., is an Italian writer.
Biography
Panarello grew up in the small
Sicilian town of
Aci Castello, near
Catania
Catania (, , , Sicilian and ) is the second-largest municipality on Sicily, after Palermo, both by area and by population. Despite being the second city of the island, Catania is the center of the most densely populated Sicilian conurbation, wh ...
in Italy. In 2003, she became famous for authoring the erotic novel, ''100 colpi di spazzola prima di andare a dormire'' (translated into English by
Lawrence Venuti
Lawrence Venuti (born 1953) is an American translation theorist, translation historian, and a translator from Italian, French, and Catalan.
Career
Born in Philadelphia, Venuti graduated from Temple University. In 1980 he completed a Ph.D. ...
as ''One Hundred Strokes of the Brush Before Bed'', 2004). The novel, written in diary form, focuses on the narrator's extreme sexual life during her teenage years and is loosely based on the author's own experiences.
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In December 2022, she got married and has 2 children.][ ]
Books
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References
External links
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The Punk Pornographer – Melissa Panarello in interview
1985 births
Living people
Italian erotica writers
writers from Catania
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