Maurizio Serra (born 3 June 1955 in London) is a contemporary Italian writer and diplomat. Maurizio Serra was Italian Ambassador to the Unesco. He writes in Italian and French. 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.
Works
- 1999: Le Passager du siècle. Guerres, révolutions, Europes, with Ferenc FejtÃ
Â, Paris, ÃÂditions Hachette, 373 p.
- 2008: Les Frères séparés. Drieu La Rochelle, Aragon, Malraux face àl'histoire, ["Fratelli separati : Drieu-Aragon-Malraux : il fascista, il comunista, l'avventuriero"], trans. Carole Cavallera, Paris, La Table Ronde, 319 p.
:2008: â prix du Rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature françaises (Académie française)
- 2008: Marinetti et la révolution futuriste, trad. de Carole Cavallera, Paris, ÃÂditions de LâÂÂHerne, series "Carnets de l'Herne", 115 p.
- 2011: Malaparte, vies et légendes, Paris, ÃÂditions Grasset et Fasquelle, 634 p. . Revised and expanded ed. published in 2012, Paris, ÃÂditions Perrin, series "Tempus", 797 p. . English translation (forthcoming): Malaparte: A Biography, trans. Stephen Twilley, New York Review Books, 2026, 716 p.
:2011: â Prix Goncourt de la Biographie.
:2011: â prix Casanova
- 2013: Italo Svevo ou lâÂÂantivie, Paris, ÃÂditions Grasset et Fasquelle, 400 p.
- 2015: Une génération perdue. Les Poètes-guerriers dans l'Europe des années 1930, Paris, ÃÂditions du Seuil, 360 p.
- 2015: L'esteta armato. Il Poeta-Condottiero nellâÂÂEuropa 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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