Elio Vittorini (; 23 July 1908 – 12 February 1966) was an Italian writer and novelist. He was a contemporary of
Cesare Pavese and an influential voice in the
modernist school of novel writing. His best-known work is the
anti-fascist novel
Conversations in Sicily, for which he was jailed when it was published in 1941. The first U.S. edition of the novel, published in 1949, included an introduction from
Ernest Hemingway, whose style influenced Vittorini and that novel in particular.