Luisa Adorno, pseudonym of Mila Curradi (2 August 1921 – 12 July 2021) was an Italian writer and teacher.^[1]

Adorno spent her career as a secondary school teacher. She collaborated with the magazines Il Mondo, Paragone [it], L'Indice dei libri del mese, Abitare, and Italianieuropei [it]. In 2005, she was a judge for the Premio Brancati.

In 1963, Adorno was awarded the Premio Alpi Apuane. In 1985, she was given the Premio Prato-Europa and the Premio nazionale letterario Pisa [it] for Le dorate stanze.[3 Italian] In 1990, she won the Viareggio Prize for Arco di luminara.^[2] In 1999, a collection of her works was housed in the Archivio di Stato di Firenze, where it remains to this day.^[3] That same year, she was awarded the Premio Vittorini for Sebben che siamo donne.^[4] In 2001, she became a Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.

Luisa Adorno died in Rome on 12 July 2021 at the age of 99.^[5]

• Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (2001)^[6]

• L'ultima provincia (1983)
• Le dorate stanze (1985)
• Arco di luminara (1990)
• La libertà ha un cappello a cilindro (1993)
• Come a un ballo in maschera (1995)
• Sebben che siamo donne (1999)
• Foglia d'acero (2001)
• Tutti qui con me (2008)
• Italia mia (2010)