Annalisa Panati is an Italian writer and mathematician, based in Marseille, France. She has published La venditrice di sogni (Schena, 2008), which was awarded the Valerio Gentile prize, Storie di donne e di pianura (Schena, 2014) and the play Vita e sogni di mister Pauli  (soon to be published and to be staged by Teatro e Scienza association in Torino. Italy).