Silvia Avallone

Silvia Avallone (born 11 April 1984) is an Italian novelist and poet.

She was an only child of divorced parents; her father owned a small business and her mother was a schoolteacher.

[1] Her first collection of poetry, Il libro dei vent'anni, appeared in 2007.

Set in a steel mill in Piombino, it draws heavily on her childhood experiences.

In 2018 she published her third novel, Da dove la vita è perfetta, narrating the interwoven histories of two Italian women confronted with the question of motherhood.