Festival
2018
Lectio: Margaret Atwood
Finalists: Katie Kitamura, Andreï Makine, Lawrence Osborne, George Saunders, David Szalay
Winner for Translation: Claudio Groff
2017
Lectio: Dany Laferrière
Theater: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Zadie Smith, Luigi Lo Cascio, Hisham Matar, Atiq Rahimi
Finalists: Mathias Enard, Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Eduard Louis, Valeria Luiselli, Clemens Meyer
Winner for Translation: Anna D’Elia
Special Guests: Michele Arena, Antonio Armano, Andrea Bajani, Simona Baldanzi, Susanna Basso, Anibal Campos, Ilide Carmignani, Ilaria Giannini, Paolo Giordano, Wlodek Goldkorn, Andrew Sean Greer, Andrea Landolfi, Hisham Matar, Beatrice Monti della Corte, Raffaele Palumbo, Eleonora Pinzuti, Ranieri Polese, Atiq Rahimi, Gaia Rau, Francesca Rinaldi, Leonardo Sacchetti, Volker Schöndorff, Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Bruno Ventavoli, Edmund White
2016
Lectio: Etgar Keret
Theatre: Valeria Solarino
Finalists: Mircea Cărtărescu, Dany Laferrière, Yiyun Li, Dinaw Mengestu, Lorrie Moore
Special Guests: Andrea Bajani, Caterina Bonvicini, Luigi Brioschi, Ilide Carmignani, Michael Cunningham, Fulvio Ferrari, Ernesto Ferrero, Simone Fortuna, Paolo Giordano, Wlodek Goldkorn, Andrew Sean Greer, Andrea Landolfi, Maaza Mengiste, Alberto Manguel, Livia Manera, Bruno Mazzoni, Olga Mugnaini,Francesco Musolino, Susanna Nirenstein, Fulvio Paloscia, Raffaelle Palumbo, Valeria Parrella, Alan Pauls, Leonardo Marcello Pignataro, Vanni Santoni, Valeria Solarino, Elena Stancanelli, Martina Testa, Edmund White.
2015
Lectio: Jhumpa Lahiri
Theatre: Alba Rohrwacher, Filippo Timi
Finalists: Dasa Drndic, Andrew Miller, Guadalupe Nettel, Vladimir Sorokin, Tommy Wieringa
Special Guests: Federica Aceto, Elif Batuman, Andrea Bajani, Leonetta Bentivoglio, Francesco Bianconi, Ilide Carmignani, Saverio Costanzo, Michael Cunningham, Giorgio Ficara, Sergio Givone, Wlodek Goldkorn, Andrew Sean Greer, Francesco Guglieri, Simone Lenzi, Maaza Mengiste, Alberto Manguel, Livia Manera, Alessandro Mari, Francesco Musolino, Susanna Nirenstein, Aldo Nove, Massimo Onofri, Fulvio Paloscia, Valeria Parrella, Carmen Pellegrino, Silvio Perrella, Leonardo Marcello Pignataro, Rosa Polacco, Tommaso Pincio, Stefano Salis, Vanni Santoni, Miguel Syjuco, Antonio Scurati, Martina Testa, Edmund White.
2014
Lectio: Emmanuel Carrère
Theatre: Ralph Fiennes, Isabella Rossellini, Valeria Golino
Finalists: Leopoldo Brizuela, Maylis de Kerangal, Dave Eggers, Georgi Gospodinov, Tom McCarthy
Special Guests: Roberto Andò, Alberto Arbasino, Bernardo Bertolucci, Teresa Ciabatti, Giuseppe Civati, Jennifer Clement, Mauro Covavich, Michael Cunningham, Paolo Di Paolo, Pietro Galeotti, Piero Gelli, Sergio Giovone, Daniel Kehlmann, Jonathan Lethem, Michele de Mieri, Giorgio Pressburger, Massimo Raffaelli, Francesco Recami, Leonardo Sacchetti, Vanni Santoni, Elena Stancanelli, Giorgio Van Straten, Giorgio Vasta, Chiara Valerio, Vendela Vida
2013
Lectio: Patrick McGrath
Theatre: Jeremy Irons, Laura Morante
Finalists: Juan Gabriel Vasquez, Jennifer Egan, Etgar Keret, Jeanette Winterson
Special Guests: Roberto Andò, Alba Arikha, Francesco M. Cataluccio, Michael Cunningham, Luca Doninelli, Mario Fortunato, Andrew Sean Greer, Christian Raimo, Alessandro Raveggi, Vanni Santoni, Antonio Scurati, Elena Stancanelli, Colm Toìbìn
Giogrio Van Straten
2012
Lectio: Michael Ondaatje
Theatre: Ruth Gabriel and Fabrizio Gifuni
Finalists: Enrique Villa-Matas, Emmanuel Carrère, Jenny Erpenbeck,
Damon Galgut, Jón Kalman Stefánsson
Special Guests: Roberto Andò, Andrea Bajani, Roberto Bertinetti, Michela Cescon, Kiran Desai, Tommaso Pincio, Elisabetta Rasy, Gianluigi Ricuperati, Vanni Santoni, Stefania Scateni, Elena Stancanelli, Colm Toìbìn, Chiara Valerio, Alessandro Zaccuri
2011
Lectio: Zadie Smith
Theatre: Isabella Rossellini and Colm Toìbìn
Finalists: Aleksander Hemon, Marie Ndiaye, David Mitchell, Miguel Syjuco, Wells Tower
Special Guests: Lorenzo Pavolini, Gianluigi Ricuperati, Elena Stancanelli, Colm Toìbìn, Chiara Valerio,
Giorgio Vasta
2010
Lectio: Michael Cunningham
Theatre: Ralph Fiennes and Alba Rohrwacher
Finalists: Percival Everett, Hector Abad, Nam Le, Jean Echenoz
Special Guests: Alessandro Baricco, Luigi Brioschi
