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.

2024 – 2022

Felipe Franco Munhoz

Panagiotis Kehagias

Miguel Barrero

Rui Couceiro

Borja Ortiz de Gondra

Katy Simpson Smith

Brian Robert Moore

Gabriela Ybarra

Name Country Year
Anita Desai India 2000 2005
Kiran Desai India 2000
Michael Carroll USA 2000
Aleksandra Crapanzano USA 2000
Victor Erofeev Russia 2000
David Hughes UK 2000
John Burnham Schwartz USA 2000
Colm Tóibín Ireland 2000 2005
Edmund White USA 2000 2008 2016
Andre Alexis Trinidad/Canada 2001
Catherine Bush Canada 2001
Gunnar Kopperud Norway 2001
Jeff Marcus USA 2001
Andras Nagy Hungary 2001
Kerstin Pistorius Germany 2001
Jose Manuel Prieto Cuba 2001
Zadie Smith UK 2001 2004
Colin Thubron UK 2001
Vendela Vida USA 2001
Diran Adebayo UK 2002
Dennis Bock Canada 2002
Gabriella De Ferrari USA/Italy 2002
Paul Durcan Ireland 2002
Amitav Ghosh India 2002
Jens Christian Grøndahl Denmark 2002
Verlyn Klinkenborg USA 2002
Matthew Kneale UK 2002
Lawrence Krauser USA 2002
Helena McEwen Scotland 2002
Anna Pavord UK 2002
Tomaž Šalamun Slovenia 2002 2012
Brina Svit Slovenia 2002
Terry Tempest Williams USA 2002 2012
Carole Angier UK 2003
John Banville Ireland 2003 2005
Orlando Figes UK 2003
William Fiennes UK 2003 2014
Suki Kim South Korea 2003
Dorit Rabinyan Israel 2003
Natasha Radojcic-Kane Serbia 2003
Atiq Rahimi Afghanistan/France 2003 2005
Robin Robertson UK 2003 2007 2008 2015 2017
Kamila Shamsie Pakistan 2003 2005 2011 2015 2016
Gary Shteyngart Russia/USA 2003
Rupert Thompson UK 2003
David Young Canada 2003 2007
Tim Pears UK 2003
Hans Maarten Van den Brink Netherlands 2004
Marcus Braun Germany 2004
Péter Esterházy Hungary 2004
Ben Faccini UK 2004
Carlos Franz Chile 2004
Denis Grozdanovitch France 2004
Panos Karnezis Greece 2004
Jon McGregor UK 2004
Maile Meloy USA 2004
Emma Richler Canada 2004
Doug Wright USA 2004
Nadeem Aslam UK 2005 2008
Richard Flanagan Tasmania 2005
Andrew Sean Greer USA 2005 2010 2013 2014 2016
Judith Hermann Germay 2005
Daniel Mason USA 2005
Pierre Péju France 2005
Monique Truong Vietnam 2006
Tash Aw Malaysia/UK 2006
Anita Rau Badami Canada 2006
Susan Elderkin UK 2006
Marcos Giralt Torrente Spain 2006
Tobias Hill UK 2006
Uzma Aslam Khan Pakistan 2006
Benjamin Kunkel USA 2006
Marina Lewycka Ukraine/UK 2006
Philip Ó Ceallaigh Ireland 2006
Phillippe Besson France 2006
Matthew Sweeney Ireland 2006
Glyn Maxwell UK 2006
Askold Melnyczuk USA 2007
Bernardo Carvalho Brazil 2007
Uzodima Iweala Nigeria/USA 2007
Hugo Hamilton Ireland 2007
Joanna Scott USA 2007
Mary Gaitskill USA 2007
Tanuja Chandra India 2007
Tishani Doshi India 2007
José Luís Peixoto Portugal 2008
Dalia Sofer Iran/USA 2008
Juan Gabriel Vásquez Colombia 2008
Barbara Trapido South Africa/UK 2008
Tim Dee UK 2008
Philip Boehm USA 2008
Edward Docx UK 2008 2014
Sheila Heti Canada 2009
Jordi Punti Spain 2009
Tristan Hughes UK 2009
Adam Foulds UK 2009 2015
Stacey D’Erasmo USA 2009
Nam Le Vietnam 2009 2010
Richard Swartz Sweden 2009
Stefan Merrill Block USA 2009 2011 2016
Brenda Lozano Mexico 2009
Anne McLean Canada 2010 2011
Jaspreet Singh Canada 2010
Diana Evans UK 2010 2012
Wells Tower USA 2010 2011
Maaza Mengiste Ethiopia 2010
Rabih Alameddine Jordan/Lebanon 2010
Nathaniel Rich USA 2010
Chloe Aridjis Mexico 2010
Héctor Abad Colombia 2011 2013
Brian Chikwava Zimbabwe 2011
Gil Adamson Canada 2011
John Vaillant USA 2011 2016
Evie Wyld Australia/UK 2011
Miguel Syjuco Philippines 2011 2015
Javier Montes Spain 2011
Bonnie McDougall Australia 2011
Alice Albinia England 2011
Mirza Waheed Kashmir 2011 2012
Frank Wynne Ireland 2011
Michael Jacobs Italy/Ireland 2012
Michael Thomas Taren USA 2012
Dany Laferrière Haiti/Canada 2012
Edgardo Cozarinsky Argentina 2012
Teju Cole USA/Nigeria 2012
Majo Ramìrez Mexico 2012
Sylvain Tesson France 2012
Patrick Flanery USA 2013 2015
Goce Smilevski Macedonia 2013
Jean Sprackland UK 2013
Alan Pauls Argentina 2013
Alba Arikha France 2013
Peter Stamm Switzerland 2013
Michael Cunningham USA 2004 2010 2014 2015 2016
Jennifer Clement USA/Mexico 2014
Ulf Peter Hallberg Sweden 2014
José Aníbal Campos Cuba 2014 2015 2016
Selma Dabbagh UK/Palestine 2014
Michael David Lukas USA 2014
Olga Tokarczuc Poland 2014
Elif Batuman USA/Turkey 2015
Deborah Levy UK 2015
Enrique Juncosa Spain 2015
Daša Drndić Croatia 2015
Rajesh Parameswaran India/USA 2015 2017
Maurizia Balmelli Italy 2015
Lawrence Osborne UK 2015
Marek Zagańczyk Poland 2015
Nihad Sirees Syria 2015
Andrea Bajani Italy 2015
Verónica Gerber Bicecci Mexico 2016
Ned Beauman UK 2016
Joshua Cohen USA 2016
Polly Stenham UK 2016
Andrés Barba Spain 2016
Claire-Louise Bennett UK 2016
Isabella Hammad UK 2016
Makenzy Orcel Haiti 2016
Maureen N. McLane USA 2017
Helen Simpson UK 2017
Eçe Temelkuran Turkey 2017
Abigail Ulman Australia 2017
Hisham Matar Libya 2009 2017
Zachary Mason USA 2017
Sean Borodale UK 2018
Nadifa Mohamed UK 2018
Terry Tempest Williams USA 2018
Lawrence Osborne UK 2018
Katie Kitamura USA 2018
Muharem Bazdulj Serbia 2018
Fiona McFarlane Australia 2018
Monica Ali Bangladesh/UK 2018
Khaled Khalifa Syria 2018
Fredrik Sjöberg Sweden 2019
Kate Harris Canada 2019
Sally Rooney Ireland 2019
Dimiter Kenarov Bulgaria 2019
Henry C. Krempels UK 2019
Cristiana Mennella Italy 2019
Héctor Abad Colombia 2019
Juan Villoro Mexico 2019
Rick Bass USA 2019
Ben Okri London 2019
Laird Hunt USA 2019
Álvaro Enrigue Mexico 2019
Edward Docx UK 2019
Isabelle Mayault France 2019
Edwin Frank USA 2019
Claudia Durastanti Italy 2019
Mercedes Cebrián Spain 2013 2019 2020
Monica Pareschi Italy 2020
Lana Bastašić Bosnia 2020
Ernesto Kavi Mexico 2020
Emma Jones Australia 2010 2014 2020
Lamorna Ash UK 2020
Nadia Terranova Italy 2020
Firat Demir 2021
Nicole Flattery Ireland 2021
Maggie O’Farrell UK 2003 2021
Andrew Miller UK 2003 2007 2012 2021
Matteo Colombo Italy 2018 2020 2021
Samantha Harvey UK 2021
Kaya Genç Turkey 2017 2018 2021
Francisco Goldman USA/Guatemala 2001 2010 2021
Pol Guasch Spain 2021 2022
Karin Altenberg Sweden 2012 2017 2020 2022
Gabriela Ybarra Spain 2022
Brian Robert Moore USA 2022
Katy Simpson Smith USA 2022
Borja Ortiz de Gondra SPAIN 2022
Rui Couceiro PORTUGAL 2023
Miguel Barrero SPAIN 2023
Panagiotis Kehagias GREECE 2023
Felipe Franco Munhoz BRASIL 2023
Jan Wilm GERMANY 2024

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