Monica Bellini

Monica Bellini is a pseudonym of the author Elizabeth "Lisa" Torberg.

Lisa Torberg grew up multilingual, studied economics in Paris and spent several decades in countries on three continents before deciding to write exclusively from then on. Today, the journalist and author lives in her homecountry Italy.

In 2012, she published her first novel in the romance genre in German. She writes sensual romance novels as Monica Bellini since 2015. Her first novel under the pseudonym Rieke Rothberg was published in 2023.