Melissa Panarello (born 3 December 1985, in Catania, Italy), alias Melissa P., is an Italian writer.

[1] Panarello grew up in the small Sicilian town of Aci Castello, near Catania 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 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.

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