Maurizio Serra
Maurizio Serra (born 3 June 1955 in London) is a contemporary Italian writer and diplomat. Italian Ambassador to the Unesco. He writes in Italian and French.
Maurizio Serra
- Name
- Maurizio Serra
- Born
- 3 June 1955
- Birthplace
- London, United Kingdom
- Occupation
- Writer diplomat
- Known for
- Member of the Académie française
- Nationality
- Italy
- Fields
- history · biography
- Education
- Sapienza University of Rome
- Honours
- Prix Goncourt of Biography · Prix du livre incorrect · Prince Pierre Award · Prix Chateaubriand · Grand prix de la biographie politique
- Languages
- Italian · French
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Maurizio Serra (born 3 June 1955 in London) is a contemporary Italian writer and diplomat. Italian Ambassador to the Unesco. He writes in Italian and French.
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Biography
Biography
He received the Prix Goncourt de la Biographie in 2011 for his book Malaparte, vies et légendes, a biography on Curzio Malaparte. Serra was elected to the Académie Française on 9 January 2020. His father was Enrico Serra, Italian historian.
Maurizio Serra studied at Sapienza University of Rome. The recorded working language is Italian and French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are history and biography. Positions recorded include Member of the Académie française. Distinctions recorded are Prix Goncourt of Biography, Prix du livre incorrect, Prince Pierre Award and Prix Chateaubriand.
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Key facts
• Name — Maurizio Serra • Born — 3 June 1955 • Birthplace — London, United Kingdom • Occupation — Writer diplomat • Known for — Member of the Académie française
Works
Works
• 1999: Le Passager du siècle. Guerres, révolutions, Europes, with Ferenc Fejtő, Paris, Éditions Hachette, 373 p. • 2008: Les Frères séparés. Drieu La Rochelle, Aragon, Malraux face à l'histoire, Fratelli separati: Drieu-Aragon-Malraux: il fascista, il comunista, l'avventuriero, trans. Carole Cavallera, Paris, La Table Ronde, 319 p. • 2008: – prix du Rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature françaises (Académie française) • 2008: Marinetti et la révolution futuriste, trad. de Carole Cavallera, Paris, Éditions de L’Herne, series "Carnets de l'Herne", 115 p. • 2011: Malaparte, vies et légendes, Paris, Éditions Grasset et Fasquelle, 634 p.. Revised and expanded ed. published in 2012, Paris, Éditions Perrin, series "Tempus", 797 p.. English translation (forthcoming): Malaparte: A Biography, trans. Stephen Twilley, New York Review Books, 2026, 716 p. • 2011: – Prix Goncourt de la Biographie. • 2011: – prix Casanova • 2013: Italo Svevo ou l’antivie, Paris, Éditions Grasset et Fasquelle, 400 p. • 2015: Une génération perdue. Les Poètes-guerriers dans l'Europe des années 1930, Paris, Éditions du Seuil, 360 p. • 2015: L'esteta armato. Il Poeta-Condottiero nell’Europa degli anni Trenta, Lavis, La Finestra Editrice, 404 p. • 2017: Antivita di Italo Svevo, Collana Biblioteca, Torino, Nino Aragno Editore, • 2019: L'Imaginifico. Vita di Gabriele D'Annunzio, Collana I narratori delle tavole, Neri Pozza, • 2020: Amours diplomatqiues, Paris, Grasset, 318p.. Italian translation: Amori diplomatici. Un romanzo in tre movimenti, Venezia, Marsilio, 2021,. • 2021: Il caso Mussolini, Collana I colibrì, Vicenza, Neri Pozza, • 2023: Visiteur, Grasset, Paris,
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