Maurizio Serra

Born3 June 1955 (age 70)

London, United Kingdom

OccupationsWriter
diplomat

KnownforMember of the Académie française

Maurizio Serra
Born	(1955-06-03) 3 June 1955 (age 70) London, United Kingdom
Occupations	Writer diplomat
Known for	Member of the Académie française

Maurizio Serra (born 3 June 1955 in London) is a contemporary Italian writer and diplomat. Maurizio Serra was Italian Ambassador to the Unesco.^[1] 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.^[2] Serra was elected to the Académie Française on 9 January 2020.^[3]

His father was Enrico Serra, Italian historian.

1999: Le Passager du siècle. Guerres, révolutions, Europes, with Ferenc Fejtő, Paris, Éditions Hachette, 373 p. ISBN 2-01-235383-5
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. ISBN 978-2-7103-2979-4

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. ISBN 978-2-85197-881-3^[4]
2011: Malaparte, vies et légendes, Paris, Éditions Grasset et Fasquelle, 634 p. ISBN 978-2-246-75281-3.^[5] Revised and expanded ed. published in 2012, Paris, Éditions Perrin, series "Tempus", 797 p. ISBN 978-2-262-03753-6. English translation (forthcoming): Malaparte: A Biography, trans. Stephen Twilley, New York Review Books, 2026, 716 p. ISBN 978-2-2467-5281-3

2011: – prix Casanova^[6]

2013: Italo Svevo ou l’antivie, Paris, Éditions Grasset et Fasquelle, 400 p. ISBN 978-2-246-78736-5
2015: Une génération perdue. Les Poètes-guerriers dans l'Europe des années 1930, Paris, Éditions du Seuil, 360 p. ISBN 978-2-02-117011-5
2015: L'esteta armato. Il Poeta-Condottiero nell’Europa degli anni Trenta, Lavis, La Finestra Editrice, 404 p. ISBN 978-8895925-54-7
2017: Antivita di Italo Svevo, Collana Biblioteca, Torino, Nino Aragno Editore, ISBN 978-88-841-9928-7
2019: L'Imaginifico. Vita di Gabriele D'Annunzio, Collana I narratori delle tavole, Neri Pozza, ISBN 978-88-545-1794-3
2020: Amours diplomatqiues, Paris, Grasset, 318p. ISBN 978-2-246-81801-4. Italian translation: Amori diplomatici. Un romanzo in tre movimenti, Venezia, Marsilio, 2021, ISBN 978-88-297-0794-2.
2021: Il caso Mussolini, Collana I colibrì, Vicenza, Neri Pozza, ISBN 978-88-545-2312-8
2023: Visiteur, Grasset, Paris, ISBN 978-2246832621

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