Maurizio Serra

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 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. 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,