Nicoletta Vallorani is an Italian science fiction writer.
Vittorio Catani was an Italian science fiction writer.
Niccolò Ammaniti is an Italian writer, winner of the Premio Strega in 2007 for As God Commands. He became noted in 2001 with the publication of I'm Not Scared, a novel which was later made into a movie directed by Gabriele Salvatores.
Urania is an Italian science fiction magazine published by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore since 10 October 1952. The current editor is Giuseppe Lippi.
The Premio Omelas is an award dedicated to stories written in Italian that pertain to both human rights and science fiction. Both short stories and novels are eligible for the prize, which is offered in conjunction with Amnesty International Gruppo Italia 233, working in Palermo. The prize is awarded to the story which best represents the theme of "Using literature to stop torture".
The Strega Prize is the most important 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.
Franco Lucentini was an Italian writer, journalist, translator and editor of anthologies.
Lino Aldani was an Italian science fiction writer.
Andrea Bajani is an Italian novelist, poet, and journalist. After his debut with Cordiali saluti, it was Se consideri le colpe which brought him a great deal of attention. Antonio Tabucchi wrote about his debut novel, "I read this book with an excitement that Italian literature hasn't made me feel in ages." The book won the Super Mondello Prize, the Brancati Prize, the Recanati Prize and the Lo Straniero Prize.
Vittorio Curtoni was an Italian science fiction writer and translator.
Francesco Falconi is an Italian fantasy writer.
Claudio Chillemi is an Italian writer, author of short stories, novels and plays for children.
Laudomia Bonanni was an Italian writer and journalist. Although she started publishing when she was a teenager, her literary career took off in 1948 when she won a national contest; she went on to be a prolific and award-winning author. The Nobel laureate Eugenio Montale compared her realism to James Joyce’s Dubliners, and other distinguished critics considered her one of the most important and original voices in Italy’s post-World War II literature.
Massimo Carlotto is an Italian writer and playwright.
DeepCon is an Italian science fiction, fantasy and horror fan convention, covering multiple entertainment forms and media, mixed with a dose of actual, real-world science.
Trieste Science+Fiction Festival was founded in 2000 under the name of Science plus Fiction by the Research and Experimentation Centre La Cappella Underground with the ambitious purpose of re-launching the Festival Internazionale del film di fantascienza, which had been held in the northern Italian city of Trieste in the years 1963–1982.
Maurizio de Giovanni is an Italian author of mystery novels.
Alda Teodorani is an Italian writer. She has been defined as the "queen of Italian dark". The director Dario Argento has said "Alda Teodorani's stories are like my deepest nightmares." She made her debut in 1990 with the publication of Non hai capito in the Nero Italiano 27 racconti metropolitani anthology.
Veronica Raimo is an Italian writer, translator, and screenwriter.
Aldo Agatino Forbice was an Italian radio host and journalist. As a radio host he was most well known for hosting the Rai Radio 1 program Zapping from 1994 to 2012. He was also an author of long-form essay novels, poetry compilations, and several fiction books, many of which won literary awards in Italy.
