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