patti smith
niccolò ammaniti
Pierfrancesco Favino
lila azam zanganeh
20
23
Stuart Klawans
/CA
PRI
maurizio de giovanni
isabella rossellini
adam gopnik
chuck palahniuk
colum mccann
Giuliano da Empoli
paolo sorrentino
paul auster
John Banville
david leavitt
jonathan franzen
wole soyinka
nicola piovani
20
22
larissa macfarquhar
michael cunningham
Charmaine Wilkerson
phillip lopate
stephen sondheim
jonathan lethem
Brian Selznick
don delillo
siri hustvedt
Piera Degli Esposti
Emanuele Trevi
/NY
Ari Aster
ian mcewan
paul schrader
20
21
jeffrey eugenides
ben lerner
Salman Rushdie
claire messud
jonathan safran foer
ian buruma
Leslie Jamison
salman rushdie
rachel kushner
elif batuman
erica jong
emma cline
20
20
michael cunningham
miriam toews
dante ferretti
Greta Gerwig
roberto andò
pierluigi battista
michael chabon
mario desiati
John Banville
Chiara Gamberale
/RO
MA
Atticus Lish
gay talese
roberto saviano
valeria luiselli
gay talese
patti lupone
20
19
renzo piano
paolo giordano
jonathan safran foer
Antonio Spadaro
John Patrick Shanley
antonio franchini
claudio magris
gian arturo ferrari
Sean Price Williams
daniel mendelsohn
Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Judith Thurman
20
18
/NA
hanan al-shaykh
adam gopnik
Francesca Zambello
valerio magrelli
Ta-Nehisi Coates
zadie smith
Anthony Fauci
donna tartt
Gaetano Cappelli
helen oyeyemi
cristina comencini
Marco Ferrante
Nathan Englander
Michael Barker
20
17
Nadia Terranova
daniel mendelsohn
a.m. homes
Joshua Cohen
Massimiliano Virgilio
mario martone
Teresa Ciabatti
Francesco Piccolo
Eraldo Affinati
Molly Haskell
ernesto galli della loggia
/
WA
Giuliano Sangiorgi
isabella rossellini
martin amis
20
16
diego de silva
kwame anthony appiah
julie taymor
edoardo albinati
erica jong
Maaza Mengiste
donato carrisi
brian selznick
francesca lo schiavo
paul auster
angelo panebianco
Mary Karr
20
15
gaetano cappelli
alessandro piperno
elisabetta rasy
francesco piccolo
toni servillo
paola cortellesi
Susanna Tamaro
colum mc cann
patrick mcgrath
/VE
Jovanotti
dacia maraini
gary shteyngart
e.l. doctorow
meryl streep
20
14
siri hustvedt
elizabeth strout
edna o'brien
jamaica kincaid
nathan englander
Francesco Vezzoli
Melania Mazzucco
Maaza Mengiste
joyce carol oates
A.O. Scott
Vanessa Roghi
marco bellocchio
a.m. homes
Valerio Magrelli
20
13
john turturro
teju cole
elizabeth strout
nicole krauss
michael ondaatje
Katie Kitamura
/PA
RIS
francesco clemente
mary karr
Abigail Dean
adam haslett
zadie smith
Noah Baumbach
Matteo Garrone
Roberto Ando'
vendela vida
20
12
george saunders
daniel libeskind
philip gourevitch
Francesco Vezzoli
david mamet
jeffrey eugenides
philip gourevitch
paolo mieli
/CL
UP
david remnick
Leslie Jamison
jonathan demme
fran lebowitz
hanif kureishi
Edith Bruck
20
11
walter veltroni
giuliano ferrara
Helena Janeczek
sandro veronesi
Andrew Sean Greer
julie mehretu
martin amis
ann patchett
Luigi Guarnieri
patti smith
/BG
TA
Howard Jacobson
Alessandro Piperno
Mattia Feltri
junot díaz
jonathan galassi
joshua ferris
20
10
karan mahajan
Domenico Starnone
Gioacchino Lanza Tomasi
leonardo colombati
jhumpa lahiri
don delillo
salman rushdie
Amitav Ghosh
Igiaba Scego
mark di suvero
david byrne
benjamin taylor
colson whitehead
stefan merrill block
20
09
Laurie Anderson
liliana cavani
/PL
RM
Frank Miller
philippe claudel
Guido Calabresi
daniel libeskind
Antonio Scurati
marlon james
Leah Hager Cohen
stephen sondheim
mary karr
Nicole Krauss
ethan coen
anna funder
sandro veronesi
20
08
nathan englander
Hari Kunzru
Chiara Valerio
marilynne robinson
paolo virzì
alessandro baricco
chimamanda ngozi adichie
dave eggers
adam johnson
Pascal Bruckner
pupi avati
jonathan franzen
20
07
sergio castellitto
jhumpa lahiri
jay mcinerney
A.O. Scott
patrick mcgrath
Vittorio Storaro
annie proulx
louise erdrich
cathleen schine
Daniel Libeskind
jeffrey eugenides
Marisa Silver
garth risk hallberg
Melania Mazzucco
Marina Sagona
20
06
gay talese
paul auster
david sedaris
jay mcinerney
giovanna calvino
Candice Carty-Williams
marina abramovic
federico rampini
Katie Kitamura
Roberta Lena
Margo Jefferson
ian buruma
Annalena Benini
Ian Buruma
Paolo Giordano
phil jackson
Margo Jefferson
Colm Tóibín
Adam Gopnik
walter siti
david foster wallace
margaret mazzantini
kwame anthony appiah
Olivier Guez
ayelet waldman
judith thurman