Maurizio Serra

Maurizio Serra is a writer, historian and diplomat, and in several ways the incarnation of the European spirit. He received his education in the uk, France and Italy, and worked as a diplomat in Moscow and Germany and as the Italian ambassador to unesco. Serra was elevated into the prestigious Académie Française in 2020, where he succeeded Simone Veil. He was the first Italian since 1635 to enter this most illustrious French Institute. Serra’s literary oeuvre, which reflect his enormous erudition, is devoted to the political and literary figures of the European interbellum, like Curzio Malaparte, Benito Mussolini, André Malraux and Italo Svevo. For his book Malaparte, vies et légendes, he received the Prix Goncourt de la Biographie in 2011.