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