Tommaso Labranca (18 February 1962 – 29 August 2016) was an Italian essayist, novelist, journalist, writer, and radio presenter.

Born in Milan, Labranca started his career in the 1980s as a translator and an editor of fanzines.

Interested in the Italian trash culture, which he considered as "the last major manifestation of Italian creativity",[1] between 1992 and 1994 he directed the magazine Trashware, and he became first known for the books Andy Warhol era un coatto ("Andy Warhol was tacky", 1994) and Estasi del pecoreccio ("Extasy of the bad taste", 1995).

[2] In the 1990s he was part, together with Niccolò Ammaniti, Isabella Santacroce, Tiziano Scarpa and others, of a literary movement known as "i cannibali" ("the cannibals").

[2][3] Labranca unexpectedly died of a heart attack at his home in Pantigliate, on the night of 29 August 2016.