(San Francisco 1874 – Boston 1963)
American poet and playwright.
Winner of four Pulitzer Prizes
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Franz Kafka
(Prague 1883 – Kierling 1924)
He is considered one of the major figures of 20th century literature
Ian Fleming
Ian Fleming
(London 1908 – Canterbury 1964)
British writer, journalist and military man.
George Orwell
George Orwell
George Orwell
(Motihar 1903 – London 1950)
British writer
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
(Dréan 1913 – Villeblevin 1960)
French writer, philosopher, essayist, playwright, journalist and political activist.
Eugenio Scalfari
Eugenio Scalfari
( April 6, 1924 – July 14, 2022)
Founder and director of “La Repubblica”
Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust
(Paris 1871 – Paris 1922)
French writer, essayist and literary critic
William Faulkner
William Faulkner
(New Albany 1897 – Byhalia 1962)
American writer, screenwriter, poet and playwright.
Fernande Olivier
Fernande Olivier
(Paris 1881 – Paris 1966)
Muse of Picasso
Eugène Ionesco
Eugène Ionesco
(Slatina 1909 – Paris 1994)
French playwright and essayist of Romanian origin. Exponent of the theater of the absurd.
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
(London 1882 – Rodmell 1941)
British writer, essayist and activist.
Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound
(Hailey 1885 – Venice 1972)
American poet, essayist and translator
Ford Madox Ford
Ford Madox Ford
(Merton 1873 – Deauville 1939)
British writer
James Joyce
James Joyce
(Dublin 1882 – Zurich 1941)
Irish writer, poet and playwright
Attilio Bertolucci
Attilio Bertolucci
(San Prospero Parmense 1911 – Roma 2000)
Poet. Father of directors Bernardo and Giuseppe Bertolucci
Christa Wolf
Christa Wolf
(1929 – 2011)
German writer
La Repubblica 1996
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
(1854 – 1900)
Irish writer, poet and playwright of the Victorian era.
Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh
(1903 – 1966)
British writer.
La Repubblica 16.02.1996
Lev Tolstoj
Lev Nikolàevič Tolstòj
(1828 – 1910)
Russian writer and philosopher.
La Repubblica 20.08.1996
J. R. R. Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien
(1892 – 1973)
British fantasy writer, philologist and linguist.
La Repubblica 01.10.2007
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
(1896 – 1957)
Writer and novelist
La Stampa 10.07.1999
Tiziano Terzani
Tiziano Terzani
(1938 – 2004)
Italian writer and journalist.
La Stampa 15.02.2008
Mario Rigoni Stern
Mario Rigoni Stern
(1921 – 2008)
Italian writer and novelist
La Stampa 10.10.2005
José Saramago
José Saramago
(1922 – 2010)
Portuguese writer, journalist, poet and playwright
La Stampa 2005
Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke
(1875 – 1926)
Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist.
Unpublished 2019
Fernanda Pivano
Fernanda Pivano
(1917 – 2009)
Translator, writer and journalist.
La Stampa 18.01.2013
Guido Piovene
Guido Piovene
(1907 – 1974)
Italian writer and journalist
La Stampa 04.05.2003
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini
(1922 – 1975)
Writer, poet, film director and playwright.
Boris Pahor
Boris Pahor
(Trieste 1913)
Slovenian writer, later naturalised as Italian citizen.
L’Espresso 2018
Adrienne Monnier
Adrienne Monnier
(1892 – 1955)
French bookseller and writer. Her “Maison des Amis des Livres” in Paris was frequented by the most acclaimed writers of the first half of the 1900s
William Somerset Maugham
William Somerset Maugham
(1874 – 1965)
English writer and playwright.
La Stampa 29.03.2018
Golo Mann
Golo Mann
(1909 – 1994)
German historian and writer
Claudio Magris
Claudio Magris
(Trieste, 10 aprile 1939)
Italian writer, essayist, translator and academic
La Stampa 04.12.2007
Doris May Lessing
Doris May Lessing
(1919 – 2013)
British-Zimbabwean novelist.
Bohumil Hrabal
Bohumil Hrabal
(1914 – 1997)
Czech writer
La Repubblica 1995
Federico García Lorca
Federico García Lorca
(1898 – 936)
Spanish poet, playwright and director.
La Repubblica 31.08.1994
Graham Greene
Graham Greene
(1904 – 1991)
English writer, playwright, screenwriter and secret agent.
La Stampa 07.04.2001
Ken Follett
Ken Follett
(Cardiff 1949)
English writer and novelist.
La Stampa 14.09.2007
Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri
(1265 – 1321)
Italian poet
La Stampa 07.02.2009
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
(1812 – 1870)
British writer and journalist of the Victorian era.
La Repubblica 21.05.1995
Gabriele D’Annunzio
Gabriele D’Annunzio
(1863 – 1938)
Italian writer, poet and playwright.
La Repubblica 18.05.1991
Maurizio Costanzo
Maurizio Costanzo
(Rome 1938)
Italian journalist, TV show creator and conductor.
La Repubblica 1995
Colette
Colette
(1873 – 1954)
French writer and theater actress.
Andrea Camilleri
Andrea Camilleri
(1925 – 2019)
Italian writer, playwright, screenwriter and director.
Dino Buzzati
Dino Buzzati Traverso
(1906 – 1972)
Italian writer, journalist, painter
La Stampa 12.06.1999
Enzo Biagi
Enzo Biagi
(1920 – 2007)
Journalist, writer, TV show creator and conductor.
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett
(Dublin 1906 – Paris 1989)
Irish playwright and writer.
Francesco Alberoni
Francesco Alberoni (1929)
Writer, journalist and sociologist.
Capital 2002