Elio Pagliarani (25 May 1927 – 8 March 2012) was an Italian poet and literary critic, who belonged to the avant-garde Gruppo 63 movement.
Pagliarani graduated in Politics Science at Padua, and in the 1940s he moved to Milan where he worked as a journalist and as a teacher.
His most renowned work is the experimental poem "La ragazza Carla", published in 1960.
Pagliarani's poems usually deal with realist themes, such as work, economics, and the lower classes.
La ballata di Rudi won the Viareggio Prize for poetry in 1995.