Alessandro Piperno, born in Rome in 1972, is a novelist, essayist, and literary critic. He debuted in 2005 with Con le peggiori intenzioni, an editorial success and finalist for the Premio Viareggio.
Luciano Violante, born in 1941, is a jurist, university professor, and politician. A former magistrate, he participated in trials against terrorism in the 1970s. In 2024, he released “Ma io ti ho sempre salvato. La maschera della morte e il nomos della vita.”
Pier Ferdinando Casini, born in 1955, is an Italian politician. First elected to the Camera dei Deputati in 1983, he served as Presidente della Camera from 2001 to 2006.
Roberto Andò, born in Palermo in 1959, is a film director, screenwriter, and writer. After working with Francesco Rosi, Federico Fellini, and Michael Cimino, he debuted as a director with the documentary Diario senza date (1995) and the feature film Il manoscritto del principe (2000).
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 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.
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).
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.
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, 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).