Eliana Liotta

Eliana Liotta is a professional journalist and author of science bestsellers, including The Smartfood Diet (Rizzoli, 2016), a book on nutrigenomics in collaboration with the European Institute of Oncology (IEO), which has been translated into over 20 languages. She has written other successful essays for La Nave di Teseo, such as Age Is Not the Same for Everyone, Prove di felicità (Proofs of Happiness) , and the recent La vita non è una corsa (Life Is Not a Race). She created and directs the editorial series Scienze per la vita (Sciences for Life) in Sonzogno and teaches Scientific Publishing at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan. Editor-in-chief of the monthly magazine Benessere (Wellbeing), she writes two weekly columns for Corriere della Sera: one on the Sunday health pages and one on Io Donna. She has also written three podcast series for Io Donna, entitled Il bene che mi voglio (The Good I Want for Myself). Five of her monologues on sustainable nutrition have aired on Rai 1. Her awards include the Montale Prize for nonfiction and the Premiolino, Italy's oldest journalism prize. In 2025, she was invited to the Taipei International Book Exhibition to represent Italy, the guest of honor.