Dino Buzzati Traverso ( Belluno, October 16, 1906 - Milan, January 28, 1972) was an Italian novelist and short story writer, as well as a journalist for Corriere della Sera.

His mother was Venetian and his father was from an ancient Bellunese family.

Works include

• Barnabo delle montagne (1933)
• Il segreto del Bosco Vecchio (1935)
• Il deserto dei Tartari (1940)
• I Sette Messaggeri (1942)
• La famosa invasione degli orsi in Sicilia (1945)
• Il grande ritratto (1960)
• Un amore (1963)
• Il capitano Pic e altre poesie (1965)