Dino Buzzati-Traverso 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 Steppe, although he is also known for his well-received collections of short stories.
Tommaso Landolfi was an Italian author, 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 and unorthodox position among Italian writers. He won a number of awards, including the prestigious Strega Prize.
Gesualdo Bufalino, was an Italian writer.
Niccolò Ammaniti is an Italian writer, winner of the Premio Strega in 2007 for As God Commands.
Thomas Anthony "Tomie" dePaola was an American writer and illustrator who created more than 260 children's books, such as Strega Nona. He received the Children's Literature Legacy Award for his lifetime contribution to American children's literature in 2011.
The Strega Prize is the most prestigious Italian literary award. It has been awarded annually since 1947 for the best work of prose fiction written in the Italian language by an author of any nationality and first published between 1 May of the previous year and 30 April.
Gianni Celati was an Italian writer, translator, and literary critic.
Giuseppe Pontiggia was an Italian writer and literary critic.
Corrado Alvaro 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 success was Gente in Aspromonte, which examined the exploitation of rural peasants by greedy landowners in Calabria, and is considered by many critics to be his masterpiece.
Vincenzo Consolo was an Italian writer.
Mario Tobino was an Italian poet, writer and psychiatrist.
Paolo Giordano is an Italian writer who won the Premio Strega literary award with his first novel The Solitude of Prime Numbers.
Georgi Gospodinov is a writer, poet and playwright based in Sofia, Bulgaria. One of the most translated Bulgarian authors after 1989, he has four poetry books awarded with national literary prizes. First of them, Lapidarium (1992), won the National Debut Prize. Volumes of his selected poetry came out in German, Portuguese, Czech, Macedonian.
Francesco Piccolo is an Italian author of novels, short stories and screen plays. In 2014, he won Italy's leading literary award the Premio Strega for Il desiderio di essere come tutti.
Maria Villavecchia Bellonci was an Italian writer, historian and journalist, known especially for her biography of Lucrezia Borgia. She and Guido Alberti established the Strega Prize in 1947.
Antonio Pennacchi was an Italian writer, winner of the Strega Prize in 2010 for his novel, Canale Mussolini.
Carola Susani is an Italian writer. She was born in Marostica (Vicenza). She published her first novel Il libro di Teresa in 1995. Her most recent book Eravamo bambini abbastanza won the Lo Straniero Prize and the Prata Prize for Fiction. She has also written children's books.
Edith Bruck is a Hungarian-born writer, director and Holocaust survivor. She has lived most of her life in Italy and writes in Italian.
Nicola Lagioia is an Italian writer.
Marco Balzano is an Italian writer. He was born in Milan, where he now works as a teacher of literature in a high school.
