Pia Pera (12 March 1956 – 26 July 2016) was an Italian novelist, essayist, and translator.
Pera followed her father's footsteps and learned Russian, but from very early on expressed an interested in having a career as a writer.
Her first collection of short stories, La bellezza dell'asino ("The Beauty of the Donkey"), was published in 1992.
Pera got international notoriety with her 1995 novel Lo's Diary (Italian: Diario di Lo), a retelling of Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita from the point of view of the female title character.
[3] Her last work was the semi-autobiographic novel Al giardino ancora non l’ho detto ("I haven't told my garden yet").