Luciana Peverelli (16 February 1902 - 5 August 1986) was an Italian writer, journalist and screenwriter.

Born in Milan, the daughter of a music critic, Peverelli started her career as a playwright, but the commercial failure of her play La donna senza nome prompted her to abandon theatre and focus on literature.

[1] After writing some novellas and short stories, starting from her 1932 debut novel Signorine e giovanotti Peverelli successfully specialized in romance novels, characterized by a borgeous setting, non-conformist leads and realistic situations, which later in her career where progressively influenced by feuilleton literature and by its gothic and melodramatic themes.

[2] In the 1940s and 1950s she also collaborated to the screenplays of several films, starting from Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia's Violets in Their Hair (1942).

[1] An anti-fascist, Peverelli had a long relationship with footballer and resistenza member Henry Molinari [it].