Alessia Gazzola

{{Short description|Italian novelist}}

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Alessia Gazzola (born 9 April 1982, Messina, Sicily, Italy) is an Italian novelist.

She graduated in Medicine from the University of Messina and later specialized in Forensic Medicine in 2011. She worked as a forensic physician until 2017, when she decided to devote herself entirely to writing{{Cite web |last=CHIA |first=JESSICA |date=2021-02-15 |title=«L’allieva»: con il «Corriere» e «Oggi» i gialli di Alessia Gazzola |url=https://www.corriere.it/gli-allegati-di-corriere/21_febbraio_15/longanesi-alice-allevi-alessia-gazzola-allieva-e76ae27a-6d50-11eb-9243-a33dd4e4072e.shtml |access-date=2025-04-17 |website=Corriere della Sera |language=it}}.

Gazzola is a medical examiner and she published her first novel, L'allieva, in 2011. Her novels mix crime fiction and chick lit, the central character being Alice Allevi.{{Cite web |url=http://www.longanesi.it/scheda-autore.asp?editore=Longanesi&idautore=4126 |title=Casa Editrice Longanesi |access-date=2015-05-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150315094515/http://www.longanesi.it/scheda-autore.asp?editore=Longanesi&idautore=4126 |archive-date=2015-03-15 |url-status=dead }}

Her 2018 novel Il ladro gentiluomo won the 2019 Premio Bancarella.{{cite web|url=https://www.illibraio.it/alessia-gazzola-premio-bancarella-2019-1126081/|title=Alessia Gazzola vince il premio Bancarella 2019|date=21 July 2019|accessdate=5 November 2019}}