Melissa Panarello

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

[edit] Biography

Panarello grew up in the small Sicilian town of Aci Castello, near Catania in Italy. She became famous for authoring the erotic novel, 100 colpi di spazzola prima di andare a dormire (One Hundred Strokes of the Brush Before Bed). The novel, written in diary form, focuses on her extreme sexual life during her teenage years and is loosely based on her own experiences. The book was distributed in forty countries and translated into over thirty languages. Coming from Sicily, one of the most traditional and old-fashioned parts of Italy, Panarello's book created a scandal because she writes about penetration, sperm, and orgasm in a very matter-of-fact fashion.

Panarello currently resides in Rome with her partner, Thomas Fazi, the son of her publisher. She published her second novel, L'odore del tuo respiro (The Smell of Your Breath), in 2005. Still in 2005, a film about her first novel, titled Melissa P., produced by Francesca Neri and directed by Luca Guadagnino has been made; however, Panarello did not back the film, claiming a loss of accuracy with her novel. In April 2006, she published a third book, titled In nome dell'amore (In the Name of Love), presented as an open letter to Camillo Ruini in which she blames the Catholic Church interferences in the Italian political scene and defends the laïcité of the country.

[edit] External links

• Melissa P. at the Internet Movie Database
• The Punk Pornographer - Melissa Panarello in interview