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