Giovanni Arduino (born June 30, 1970 in Turin) is a fiction writer, freelance editor, translator and consultant from Moncalieri, Turin, Italy. His best-selling novels span various genres such as young adult, dark fantasy, modern fables, erotica and pop culture. Arduino's work has been published in Italy, the United States, Japan, Germany and Spain. Arduino has written under many different pseudonyms such as and Jonathan Snow but has mostly used his real name since 2003 for novels as Chiudimi le labbra (Lain Books, Rome, 2005) and Mai come voi (Sperling & Kupfer, Milan, 2004).