Ardone Viola

Liberevento authors

Viola Ardone

Writer and teacher

Viola Ardone, born in Naples in 1974, graduated in Literature with a thesis on the history of modern and contemporary theatre. She has worked in educational publishing and currently teaches Italian and Latin at secondary school.
She has published the novels La ricetta del cuore in subbuglio (2012) and Una rivoluzione sentimentale (2016) with Salani, and Il treno dei bambini (2019), translated into 30 languages, and Oliva Denaro (2021) with Einaudi.
She contributes to local newspapers (“Corriere del Mezzogiorno”) and national publications (“la Repubblica”, “La Stampa”). In 2026, she was a guest at the Liberevento Cultural Festival with the book “Tanta ancora vita” (Ed. Einaudi).