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