Capri / Piazzetta Tragara
Napoli / FOQUS
Maurizio Molinari / Hotel de Russie
Bennett Miller
Born in 1966, he is an American film director who made his debut with the documentary The Cruise (1998). His films include Capote (2005), Moneyball (2011), and Foxcatcher (2014), which earned him two Academy Award nominations for Best Director.
Anne Applebaum
American journalist and historian, born in 1964, she studied at Yale and Oxford. She began her career as a correspondent in Warsaw for The Washington Post, covering the post-Soviet transition in Eastern Europe.
Ari Aster
Film director and screenwriter, born in New York in 1986, he studied at the AFI Conservatory. He made his feature debut with Hereditary (2018), followed by Midsommar (2019) and Beau Is Afraid (2023).
Massimo Cacciari
Born in Venice in 1944, he is a philosopher and university professor. After earning a degree in philosophy with a thesis on Lukács, he taught at several Italian universities and founded the Faculty of Philosophy at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University.
Fulminacci
Filippo Uttinacci, known as Fulminacci, was born in Rome in 1997. He released his debut album La vita veramente in 2019, winning the Targa Tenco award for best debut work.
Annabelle Hirsch
Born in 1986, she lives between Paris and Berlin. She studied art history, dramaturgy, and philosophy, and writes for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and other French and German cultural outlets.
Manuel Vilas
Born in Barbastro, Spain, in 1962, he is a poet, novelist, and essayist. He has worked as a literature teacher and regularly contributes to El País and ABC Cultural.
Daniele Mencarelli
Born in Rome in 1974, he began his literary career as a poet and published his first novel, La casa degli sguardi, in 2018. It was followed by Tutto chiede salvezza (2020), which won the Premio Strega Giovani, and Sempre tornare (2021).
Maurizio Molinari
Maurizio Molinari, born in Rome in 1964, is a journalist and essayist. He began his career at La Voce Repubblicana in 1984 and joined La Stampa in 1997, where he served as correspondent from Brussels, New York, and Jerusalem.
Melania Mazzucco
Melania G. Mazzucco, born in Rome in 1966, is a novelist, essayist, and screenwriter. She made her debut with Il bacio della Medusa (1996), followed by Lei così amata (2000) and Vita (2003), which won the Strega Prize.
Sandro Veronesi
Architecture graduate at Florence University, in 1984 Sandro Veronesi published his first and only collection of poems entitled Il resto del cielo (The Remainder of the Sky”) and in 1988 his first novel Per dove parte questo treno allegro (“For Where this Merry Train is Leaving”), followed by Gli sfiorati (“The Skimmed”, 1990) and Venite venite B-52 (“Come, Come, B-52s”, 1995).
Anthony Appiah
Philosopher and historian of African culture, over the years he has been involved in literature and the philosophy of language as well as racism, identity and moral theory, from the perspective of a liberal humanism and a cosmopolitan spirit.
Laurie Anderson
Laurie Anderson, born in Glen Ellyn, Illinois in 1947, is a multimedia artist, musician, and performer. She rose to international fame with O Superman (1981) and has released experimental albums such as Big Science, Mister Heartbreak, and Landfall (with Kronos Quartet).
Nicole Krauss
Nicole Krauss, born in New York in 1974, is a novelist and short story writer. She debuted with Man Walks into a Room(2002), followed by The History of Love (2005), Great House (2010), and Forest Dark (2017). In 2020, she published the story collection To Be a Man, which won the Wingate Literary Prize.
Gabriele Salvatores
Gabriele Salvatores, born in Naples in 1950, is a film director and screenwriter. After his early career at the Teatro dell’Elfo, he made his cinematic debut with Dream of a Summer Night (1983).
Siri Hustvedt
Siri Hustvedt, born in 1955 in Northfield, Minnesota, is a novelist and essayist. Her fiction includes What I Loved (2003), The Sorrows of an American (2008), The Blazing World (2014), and several essay collections.
Pupi Avati
Pupi Avati, born in Bologna in 1938, is a film director, screenwriter, and producer. His career spans over five decades, marked by a wide range of genres.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Jonathan Safran Foer, born in Washington, D.C. in 1977, is a novelist, short story writer, and essayist. He debuted in 2002 with Everything Is Illuminated, followed by Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2005) and Here I Am (2016).
Garth Risk Hallberg
Garth Risk Hallberg, born in Louisiana in 1978, debuted with A Field Guide to the North American Family (2007) and achieved international recognition with City on Fire (2015), a multi-character novel set in 1970s New York City.
Joshua Cohen
Joshua Cohen, born in Atlantic City in 1980, is a novelist, essayist, and critic. He is the author of Witz (2010), Book of Numbers (2015), and Moving Kings (2017).
Nicola Lagioia
Nicola Lagioia, born in Bari in 1973, debuted with the novel Tre sistemi per sbarazzarsi di Tolstoj (2001), followed by Occidente per principianti and Riportando tutto a casa (Viareggio Prize 2010).
Walter Siti
Walter Siti, born in Modena in 1947, is a writer, literary critic, and academic. He has taught contemporary Italian literature at various Italian universities and edited the works of Pier Paolo Pasolini for Mondadori’s «I Meridiani» series.
  • Napoli / FOQUS
  • Capri / Piazzetta Tragara
  • Melania Mazzucco / Palazzo Merulana
  • Maurizio Molinari / Hotel de Russie
  • Laurie Anderson / The New York Historical
  • Nicole Krauss / MAXXI
  • Gabriele Salvatores / Triennale Milano
  • Siri Hustvedt / CIZM NYU
  • Pupi Avati / MAXXI
  • Jonathan Safran Foer / MAXXI
  • Garth Risk Hallberg / The New York Society Library
  • Joshua Cohen / CIZM NYU
  • Anthony Appiah / CIZM NYU
  • Sandro Veronesi / MAXXI
  • Walter Siti / Triennale Milano
  • Nicola Lagioia / Palazzo Merulana