Pia Pera (12 March 1956 – 26 July 2016) was an Italian novelist, essayist, and translator.

Born in Lucca, the daughter of the jurist Giuseppe, a noted translator of Pushkin into Italian Pera started her own writing career in 1992, with the short stories collection La bellezza dell'asino ("The Beauty of the Donkey"). She got international notoriety with her 1995 novel Lo's Diary (), a retelling of Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita from the point of view of the female title character. In later years she specialized in novels connected to her passion for gardening.

Pia Pera

Pera was also a translator of Russian novels and an essayist. She was a professor of Russian literature at the University of Trento. Her last work was the semi-autobiographic novel Al giardino ancora non l’ho detto ("I haven't told my garden yet").

Pia Pera

Pera died at 60 years old of motor neuron disease.

Pia Pera

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1956 births

2016 deaths

Writers from Lucca

20th-century Italian novelists

21st-century Italian novelists

20th-century Italian translators

Italian women novelists

Italian women essayists

Italian essayists

Academic staff of the University of Trento

20th-century essayists

21st-century Italian essayists

20th-century Italian women writers

21st-century Italian women writers

Neurological disease deaths in Tuscany

Deaths from motor neuron disease