The Fellows

Fellowships are by invitation only, and there is no formal application. If you are interested in finding out more information about Fellowships or about the foundation in general please address any queries to info@santamaddalena.org.

Santa Maddalena is open for residencies from March 1st to June 30th in its Spring/Summer Term. It reopens from October 1st to November 15th for its Autumn Term. Fellowships are issued for six weeks periods.

For more than a decade, writers, botanists, artists and translators have spent time at Santa Maddalena. You can browse the fellows by using the List view and sorting the list by Name, Country, or Year.

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NameCountryYear
Anita DesaiIndia2000 2005
Kiran DesaiIndia2000
Michael CarrollUSA2000
Aleksandra CrapanzanoUSA2000
Victor ErofeevRussia2000
David HughesUK2000
John Burnham SchwartzUSA2000
Colm TóibínIreland2000 2005
Edmund WhiteUSA2000 2008 2016
Andre AlexisTrinidad/Canada2001
Catherine BushCanada2001
Francisco GoldmanUSA/Guatemala2001 2010
Gunnar KopperudNorway2001
Jeff MarcusUSA2001
Andras NagyHungary2001
Kerstin PistoriusGermany2001
Jose Manuel PrietoCuba2001
Zadie SmithUK2001 2004
Colin ThubronUK2001
Vendela VidaUSA2001
Diran AdebayoUK2002
Dennis BockCanada2002
Gabriella De FerrariUSA/Italy2002
Paul DurcanIreland2002
Amitav GhoshIndia2002
Jens Christian GrøndahlDenmark2002
Verlyn KlinkenborgUSA2002
Matthew KnealeUK2002
Lawrence KrauserUSA2002
Helena McEwenScotland2002
Anna PavordUK2002
Tomaž ŠalamunSlovenia2002 2012
Brina SvitSlovenia2002
Terry Tempest WilliamsUSA2002 2012
Carole AngierUK2003
John BanvilleIreland2003 2005
Orlando FigesUK2003
William FiennesUK2003 2014
Suki KimSouth Korea2003
Andrew MillerUK2003 2007 2012
Maggie O’FarrellUK2003
Dorit RabinyanIsrael2003
Natasha Radojcic-KaneSerbia2003
Atiq RahimiAfghanistan/France2003 2005
Robin RobertsonUK2003 2007 2008 2015 2017
Kamila ShamsiePakistan2003 2005 2011 2015 2016
Gary ShteyngartRussia/USA2003
Rupert ThompsonUK2003
David YoungCanada2003 2007
Tim PearsUK2003
Hans Maarten Van den BrinkNetherlands2004
Marcus BraunGermany2004
Péter EsterházyHungary2004
Ben FacciniUK2004
Carlos FranzChile2004
Denis GrozdanovitchFrance2004
Panos KarnezisGreece2004
Jon McGregorUK2004
Maile MeloyUSA2004
Emma RichlerCanada2004
Doug WrightUSA2004
Nadeem AslamUK2005 2008
Richard FlanaganTasmania2005
Andrew Sean GreerUSA2005 2010 2013 2014 2016
Judith HermannGermay2005
Daniel MasonUSA2005
Pierre PéjuFrance2005
Monique TruongVietnam2006
Tash AwMalaysia/UK2006
Anita Rau BadamiCanada2006
Susan ElderkinUK2006
Marcos Giralt TorrenteSpain2006
Tobias HillUK2006
Uzma Aslam KhanPakistan2006
Benjamin KunkelUSA2006
Marina LewyckaUkraine/UK2006
Philip Ó CeallaighIreland2006
Phillippe BessonFrance2006
Matthew SweeneyIreland2006
Glyn MaxwellUK2006
Askold MelnyczukUSA2007
Bernardo CarvalhoBrazil2007
Uzodima IwealaNigeria/USA2007
Hugo HamiltonIreland2007
Joanna ScottUSA2007
Mary GaitskillUSA2007
Tanuja ChandraIndia2007
Tishani DoshiIndia2007
José Luís PeixotoPortugal2008
Dalia SoferIran/USA2008
Juan Gabriel VásquezColombia2008
Barbara TrapidoSouth Africa/UK2008
Tim DeeUK2008
Philip BoehmUSA2008
Edward DocxUK2008 2014
Sheila HetiCanada2009
Jordi PuntiSpain2009
Tristan HughesUK2009
Adam FouldsUK2009 2015
Stacey D’ErasmoUSA2009
Nam LeVietnam2009 2010
Emma JonesAustralia2010 2014
Richard SwartzSweden2009
Stefan Merrill BlockUSA2009 2011 2016
Brenda LozanoMexico2009
Anne McLeanCanada2010 2011
Jaspreet SinghCanada2010
Diana EvansUK2010 2012
Wells TowerUSA2010 2011
Maaza MengisteEthiopia2010
Rabih AlameddineJordan/Lebanon2010
Nathaniel RichUSA2010
Chloe AridjisMexico2010
Héctor AbadColombia2011 2013
Brian ChikwavaZimbabwe2011
Gil AdamsonCanada2011
John VaillantUSA2011 2016
Evie WyldAustralia/UK2011
Miguel SyjucoPhilippines2011 2015
Javier MontesSpain2011
Bonnie McDougallAustralia2011
Alice AlbiniaEngland2011
Mirza WaheedKashmir2011 2012
Frank WynneIreland2011
Michael JacobsItaly/Ireland2012
Michael Thomas TarenUSA2012
Karin AltenbergSweden2012
Dany LaferrièreHaiti/Canada2012
Edgardo CozarinskyArgentina2012
Teju ColeUSA/Nigeria2012
Majo RamìrezMexico2012
Sylvain TessonFrance2012
Patrick FlaneryUSA2013 2015
Goce SmilevskiMacedonia2013
Mercedes CebrìanSpain2013
Jean SpracklandUK2013
Héctor AbadColombia2013
Alan PaulsArgentina2013
Alba ArikhaFrance2013
Peter StammSwitzerland2013
Michael CunninghamUSA2004 2010 2014 2015 2016
Jennifer ClementUSA/Mexico2014
Ulf Peter HallbergSweden2014
José Aníbal CamposCuba2014 2015 2016
Selma DabbaghUK/Palestine2014
Michael David LukasUSA2014
Olga TokarczucPoland2014
Elif BatumanUSA/Turkey2015
Deborah LevyUK2015
Juan VilloroMexico2015
Enrique JuncosaSpain2015
Daša DrndićCroatia2015
Rajesh ParameswaranIndia/USA2015 2017
Maurizia BalmelliItaly2015
Lawrence OsborneUK2015
Marek ZagańczykPoland2015
Nihad SireesSyria2015
Andrea BajaniItaly2015
Verónica Gerber BicecciMexico2016
Ned BeaumanUK2016
Joshua CohenUSA2016
Polly StenhamUK2016
Andrés BarbaSpain2016
Claire-Louise BennettUK2016
Isabella HammadUK2016
Makenzy OrcelHaiti2016
Maureen N. McLaneUSA2017
Karin AltenbergSweden, UK2017
Helen SimpsonUK2017
Dimiter KenarovBulgaria2017
Kaya GençTurkey2017
Eçe TemelkuranTurkey2017
Abigail UlmanAustralia2017
Hisham MatarLibya2009
Zachary MasonUSA2017
Sean BorodaleUK2018
Nadifa MohamedUK2018
Terry Tempest WilliamsUSA2018
Lawrence OsborneUK2018