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