IL GIORNALE. Melanie Moore is a model, blonde, blue eyes, flexuous voice, doll-like. This would be enough, but still, she writes a sober novel with a good plot (a star who is at the centre of four crimes) and some dribbling, she overcomes the prejudices of her character and whispers like Gessica Rabbit: this is the way they draw me, and she then finds a godmother to sponsor and guide her: Fernanda Pivano. She publishes her novel, and Barbara Alberti, Oliviero Toscani and Giampiero Mughini speak well of her…

LA STAMPA. Melanie Moore, revelation of literature and emerging celebrity in the midia … It's exactly her flourishing beauty that leaves the interlocutor impressed: especially if aware that behind her fresh talent of literature is a pin-up body and flowing plaited hair like a medusa. … Books written at full gallop, with rhythm and almost cinematographical immediacy.

CORRIERE DELLA SERA. Melanie's sixth novel. Writer of the beat generation, but also a cover-girl, model, illustrator of the biggest European reviews.

IL GIORNALE. Melanie Moore, successful model, artist and writer has shot off with Milanese culture in her mind and is aiming at the heart. A book published by Gremese, Caccia d'amore, recently presented at the Duomo's gallery. An exhibition of drawings, which, today, can be seen at the Cortina gallery. And an avalanche of recognitions from the aristocracy of contemporary culture. (…) The young Italo-German artist bases everything on provocation. A provocation that Melanie lives like a true mission in order to shake a figurative situation that she considers motionless…

DONNA MODERNA . Melanie, the model who parades in libraries. Blonde, an angel's face with blue eyes screened by long eyelashes. And, as if this weren't enough, a vamp body that has made her an extremely requested model for fashion magazines. And it's legitimate to wonder why such a woman needs to write at all. And yet Melanie Moore is a born author. Not only her readers believe this, but renowned critics, too. So much so, that an authoritative name such as Barbara Alberti signed the preface to her novel Caccia d'amore (Gremese).

ARTE. She’s an artist, a poetic novelist but also a model. Some force must be returned to today’s art, which is often affected by frigidity. Now her drawings will reach Milan, at the Renzo Cortina association…

MAXIM. Finally there’s he who clogs up her Internet website. Melanie Moore, writer, artist, model, is pretty, transgressive, intelligent…

L’ESPRESSO. A sort of Italian Erica Jong with a doll-like Lolita face and a white and buttery body (…). For Sgarbi too Melanie’s provoking ways promise well: “She has a good cut as a writer…”

MAX Sweet little Marilyn. Off balancing, intelligent, surprising. And beautiful.

IL GIORNO. Third book for Melanie Moore, a writer who Nanda Pivano also likes. "At primary school I used to write poems and as a young girl I had a diary…" that's how Melanie introduces herself, writer on the road, lover of instinct and of life's joys. She tells us about her life with the same liveliness with which she writes her novels. Model in Paris, globe-trotter in the Middle East. "When I was a little girl my father used to read the Bible and art books to me. From this the cult of beauty and poetry was born…"

IL CORRIERE DELLA SERA. (…) a degree in classics and a globe-trotter for a long time, Melanie Moore has dedicated herself to writing and now lives in Lugano. Before la gang she published Luna di carne and Angeli d'asfalto. "In this last book I'm more cynical", she says, "This is why I adopt a cinematographic style in my novel, without going into the characters' introspection too much".

IL MESSAGGERO. She was a model to earn her living. She is a writer only since last year, author of a shower of books, like the rhythm of her life. "My characters are very icy, they have to be, they are beings of the North, like I am. You Italians, damn it, bring out my romantic heart. …"

IL PICCOLO. Melanie Moore in the preface to this novel is defined by Barbara Alberti as a little Marilyn capable of reaching, through her writing, "a praiseworthy sobriety, elegance, skill at construction, a sense of the plot and a coup de théâtre".

IL MATTINO. It's difficult to take Melanie Moore seriously, declares Barbara Alberti in the preface, a writer can't be this beautiful. There'll always be an incredulous smile on the lips of those who know her face once they open one of her books. And Monique, too, the leading character of this adventure, an extremely young popstar with a loveliness as shifty and ingenuous as that of an authentic Lolita, has a playboy face…

PLAYBOY. Moore is considered to be a new promising figure in our country’s literature. Apart from having a good culture and an enviable style, Melanie would have the physique de rôle to act as the main character of her stories…

IL GAZZETTINO, VENEZIA. A new author who writes spontaneously, with enthousiasm, instinct, carnality…

L'ARENA “Who knows what Melanie Moore's pictures are like? To judge from her text, they must be fluorescent hues. Electric blue, lacquer red, shocking pink. In fact, the book is all about a strong tone quickly following another, or harsh blobs of paint, describing a youth that is poised between solitude and anxiety. Marked by precariousness. (…) A book that will be more appreciated by the younger ones. And by the rebellious ones."

PRATICA. Successful, Melanie Moore now knows the secrets in order to get into such a difficult milieu. "The main rules are perseverance and no hurry" she explains.

LA GAZZETTA DEL MEZZOGIORNO. There are people who wait for years in the vain hope to publish a book and there are people who manage to come out with four of them in no longer than a few months. This is what happens to a girl from the Alto Adige who signs her name with the exotic pseudonym Melanie Moore (…) A character outlined after Melanie Moore? Having already been on Parioli's stage, Melanie doesn't disdain being at the centre of things at all, but actually seems animated by a deep sincerity and is certainly supported by a redeeming obsession for her writing.

BOSS. A character with a thousand sides, as well as an intelligent and cultured person, Melanie has imposed herself as a writer in a very short time. Without forgetting her past as a model (…)At the beginning, in Italy, I was received as a "pretty girl", especially after tv. Lately, on the other hand, I've encountered important editors who have noticed my inner being and were surprised by it.

AMICA. Written with impetus and some ingenuousness it is the portrait of a generation that tries to resist the confusion of ideologies.

GIOIA. A fresh novel, at times hard and strong, on love, hope, torments and aspirations of young people today…

PANORAMA, Cesare Lanza . “How about challenging the winds of war and going over to Abu-Dhabi? Melanie Moore will be waiting for you, with paintings and drawings on her business card. It’s been a topic of conversation for a while now: writer and painter, author of nine books (she published novels with Gremese, novels that had been introduced by Barbara Alberti and Nanda Pivano), this is how she modestly describes herself: “I’m a diverse character.” Pretty, blonde, the most appreciated by Piero Chiambretti. And the sheikh Nahayan Mabarak al Nahayan, minister of high education and scientific research, is organising two exhibitions for her now…”

KHALEEJ TIMES, UAE. Presented by the consulate General of Switzerland under the patronage of his Higness Sheik Nahyan Bin Mubarak al Nahyan, minister of Higher education and scientific research, the exhibition will be on until April 1. Beginning her carrer as fashion model in Paris, Melanie discovered within her, a passion and talent for contemporary fine arts , she dedicated herself to writing and painting and soon her portfolio grew to include some of the most subjective and introspective works of art that won her critical acclaim across Europe, “I would describe myself as a minimalist realist in literature and a pop-surrealist in art” she often stated. Today, with nine books behind her, seven of which are highly successful novels, Melanie has earned the appreciation of the public and critics alike…

GOLF TODAY. Artists are benefactor of the humanity and it is essential for them to smile even in times of trouble like the current global situation, said the artist in reference to the war in Irak.

GULF TODAY. Moore is a successful author of nine novels, a tv personality and a promising contemporary artist. Her art art reflects a sense of devotion to history, to the classical world studied through greek-latin and, general speaking, to a Europe teeming with museum and ancient wors. Gifted with an exceptional sensitivity for partrait and sharp inclination for strokes, her paintings are imbued with a sense of reality and beauty. A feeling of metaphysical suspension is very dominant in her paintings, be it the perspective of a fairy-tale landscape or the emptiness of a sky or an expanded space…

GOLF NEWS. In Europe you grow up with history at the back of you. My work has been influenced by Renaissance paintings. That is why you see big figurative sketches. And my love of anatomy…

" Melanie Moore is very beautiful, even more so then when she escaped from her well-off family to follow her life. Moon of Meat, her first novel, has given her notoriety and esteem; in Days of Sand her autobiography continues with very hard adventures, immersed in the ferocious atrocities of war, but also in the hopes and dreams that always make the young win in the end. In an interview she said, and I think she's right:"If you believe in something you can make it. And you make it when you stop counting the mistakes you've made…". Melanie Moore made it. NANDA PIVANO, Corriere della sera

“ It’s difficult to take Melanie Moore seriously: how can a writer be so pretty? There’ll always be an incredulous smile on the lips of those who know her face once they open one of her books… Her depth and her preparation always enraptured me. Intelligent, extremely well informed… I must recognise a praiseworthy sobriety, an elegance, an ability for construction, a sense of the plot and turn of events in “Caccia d’amore”. Purity of style. BARBARA ALBERTI.

Free souls like Melanie Moore have always provoked violent reaction in average minds. OLIVIERO TOSCANI.

I got to know Melanie through television. I remember the effect she had on me then: Melanie struck me immediately with her personality. She was so free, so different from all the other girls of her generation. These think of fashion, they pay attention to marks, marks of all kinds, they don’t use their own heads. They’re homologated. But not Melanie! She’s independent, proud, curious, original. A free spirit that won’t allow itself to be caged in, someone out of the ordinary. She approaches life in her own particular way. It’s extremely interesting to talk to her, it’s good just to listen to her: she helps you see the world from other perspectives, she reads the world in a different way. And last but not least, she’s such a nice girl, so attractive too… (from an interview on Max, OLIVIERO TOSCANI)

NANDA PIVANO (critic of Corriere della Sera). This lovely book with an Americain taste, based as it is on action in its themes and on dialogues in its style, has an air of youthfulness for the problems that are treated in it and it cannot therefore be of no interest to young people.