Viola Di Grado

[1] In 2011, her debut novel 70% Acrylic 30% Wool obtained several qualifications, including the Premio Campiello Opera Prima for its "linguistic invention pushed to the visionariness".

In the same year, a theatre and music performance based on the book took place at the Festivaletteratura in Mantua, where Di Grado herself played the role of the protagonist.

In 2012, after being translated into various languages,[2] 70% Acrylic 30% Wool was included in the Marin Independent Journal′s top ten best-selling books in the United States.

[8] In April 2016 she published Bambini di ferro, a novel whose setting is a Japan of the near future, a world where even love and affection are no longer spontaneous and have to be artificially recreated by tailor-made machines.

Some of Di Grado's main themes are the incommunicability, the alienation and the ego's own illusoriness, explored through a linguistic research rich in sonorities and symbolisms.