Melissa Panarello (born 3 December 1985, in

Catania Catania (, , Sicilian and ) is the second largest municipality in Sicily, after Palermo. Despite its reputation as the second city of the island, Catania is the largest Sicilian conurbation, among the largest in Italy, as evidenced also by ...

, Italy), alias Melissa P., is an Italian writer.

Biography

Panarello grew up in the small Sicilian town of

Aci Castello Aci Castello ( scn, Jaci Casteḍḍu) is a ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Catania in Sicily, Italy. The city is located north of Catania on the Mediterranean coast. The primary economic sectors are agriculture and industry (in Catania). ...

, near

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 language, Italian, French language, French, and Catalan language, Catalan. Career Born in Philadelphia, Venuti graduated from Te ...

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. She gave birth to her first child in October 2019. In December 2022, she got married and is expecting her second child.

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The Punk Pornographer – Melissa Panarello in interview
1985 births Living people Italian erotica writers writers from Catania {{Italy-writer-stub