Giuliano da Empoli explained
Giuliano da Empoli (born 1973) is an Italian and Swiss political essayist and novelist. He is the founding chairman of Volta, a think tank based in Milan and a professor at Sciences Po Paris. In 2022, he published his debut novel Le Mage du Kremlin, for which he received the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française.
Life and career
Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1973,[1] Giuliano da Empoli grew up in several European countries, graduated in law at Sapienza University of Rome and obtained a master's degree in political science at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po).[2]
He has been Deputy Mayor for culture in Florence[3] and a senior advisor to Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.
He has also been an executive board member at the Venice Biennale[4] and the chairman of the Gabinetto Vieusseux in Florence.
From 2006 to 2008, he served as Senior Advisor to Italy's Vice-Prime Minister and Minister of Culture, Francesco Rutelli, establishing the first Italian Design Council in Milan.[5]
From 2014, he is member of the Italy-USA Foundation. In 2016, he founded the think tank Volta, a member of the Global Progress network.
He has been a guest speaker at numerous conferences around the world (including São Paulo's ESPM, Geneva's Finance Foundation, Paris' Foundation Ricard and Zürich's Club Baur au Lac) and is a member of The Travellers Club[6] in Paris.
Writer and political essayist
Since 1996, he has been a regular contributor and columnist for the country's leading printed media, including Il Corriere della Sera, La Repubblica, Il Sole 24 Ore and Il Riformista.
He also hosted a weekly talk radio show on Italy's main financial news radio, Radio 24. As an author and social commentator, he has been regularly appearing on all of the main Italian TV channels.[7]
At the age of twenty-two he published his first book[8] "Un grande futuro dietro di noi" about the problems faced by the Italian youth, which sprung a national debate and led the newspaper La Stampa to designate him "Man of the year".[9]
In 2022, he published his debut novel Le mage du Kremlin (The Wizard of the Kremlin), whose main character is modelled on Vladimir Putin's advisor Vladislav Surkov.[10] The novel was awarded the 2022 Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française.[11] The novel was a finalist for the 2022 Prix Goncourt.[12] The novel lost to Brigitte Giraud's Vivre vite after fourteen rounds of voting ended in a stalemate, leading the president of the Goncourt Academy to cast the deciding vote, choosing Giraud over Giuliano da Empoli.[13]
Books
- Un grande futuro dietro di noi (Marsilio, 1996)
- La Guerra del talento (2000) about meritocracy and mobility in the digital economy [14]
- Overdose (2002) about information overload [15]
- Fuori controllo (2004)[16] about the "brazilification" of contemporary society (translated into French by Grasset[17] and Brazilian Portuguese by Sulina[18]) [19]
- La sindrome di Meucci (2005) about Italy's creative industries [20]
- Canton Express (2008), a historical travelogue (translated into Portuguese by Livraria Bertrand) [21]
- Obama, La politica nell'era di Facebook (2008) about Barack Obama's election as an example of auto-biographical politics[22]
- Contro gli specialisti (Marsilio, 2013)
- La prova del potere (Mondadori, 2015)
- Le Florentin (Grasset, 2016)
- La rabbia e l'algoritmo (Marsilio, 2017)
- Les ingénieurs du chaos (Lattès, 2019)
- Le mage du Kremlin (Gallimard, 2022)
External links
Notes and References
- Lépine. Elise. 27 October 2022. Qui est Giuliano da Empoli, lauréat du Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française avec "Le Mage du Kremlin"?. Le Point. fr. 11 November 2022.
- La nuova classe dirigente si seleziona nell'arena, Il Giornale della Libertà, 4 gennaio 2008 http://www.ilgiornaledellaliberta.it/04-01-08/Pagina%2010.pdf
- Con Renzi il fondatore di Dada e Giuliano da Empoli, Il Corriere della Sera, 28 giugno 2009 http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2009/giugno/28/Con_Renzi_fondatore_Dada_Giuliano_co_9_090628025.shtml
- http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2007/12/20/biennale-nominato-il-nuovo-cda.html Biennale, nominato il nuovo cda, La Repubblica, 20 dicembre 2007
- Web site: The Italian Design Council. design-italia. 23 November 2007.
- Web site: The Travellers Paris.
- Web site: Tg2 Punto di vista, 8 novembre 2007 .: Tg2.rai.it :.. 2 February 2023 .
- Attenti, noi giovani ora apriamo la caccia, La Repubblica, 25 novembre 1996 http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1996/11/25/attenti-noi-giovani-ora-apriamo-la.html
- Web site: Lerner. Gad. Gad Lerner. Un enfant prodige lancia la , La Stampa, 31 ottobre 1996. Italian. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110722041349/http://archivio.lastampa.it/LaStampaArchivio/main/History/tmpl_viewObj.jsp?objid=1659561. 22 July 2011 .
- Web site: de Gruyter . Caroline . The Wizard of the Kremlin . Foreign Policy . 12 September 2022 . 30 July 2022.
- News: 27 October 2022. Giuliano da Empoli lauréat du grand prix de l'Académie française. Le Monde. fr. 10 November 2022.
- Web site: Le Goncourt présente sa première sélection, voici les 15 romans retenus, Despentes écartée . Libération . 12 September 2022 . French . 6 September 2022.
- News: 3 November 2022. Brigitte Giraud remporte le Goncourt avec "Vivre vite", 13e autrice sacrée en 120 ans. L'Express. fr. AFP. 10 November 2022.
- Alberto Statera, Le paure dei gamberi rossi, La Repubblica, 27 marzo 2000 http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2000/03/27/oltre-il-giardino-le-paure-dei.html
- Nello Ajello, Questo mondo sovrastato dal narcisismo di massa, La Repubblica, 29 aprile 2002 http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2002/04/29/questo-mondo-sovrastato-dal-narcisismo-di-massa.html
- Web site: Beppe Severgnini, Un futuro brasiliano?, Il Corriere della Sera, 12 maggio 2005.
- Roger-Pol Droit, Sommes nous tous des brésiliens?, Le Monde, 16 février 2007 http://www.lemonde.fr/cgi-bin/ACHATS/acheter.cgi?offre=ARCHIVES&type_item=ART_ARCH_30J&objet_id=977192
- http://www.digestivocultural.com/ensaios/ensaio.asp?codigo=234 www.digestivocultural.com
- "Frequently polemical but always thought-provoking" (Tom Hennigan, Is the Future Brazilian?, The Irish Times, Juli 7 2007)http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2007/0725/1185229799538.html
- Web site: La Sindrome di Meucci di Giuliano da Empoli – DUE MINUTI UN LIBRO – Rubrica di approfondimento di La7. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20090823065249/http://www.la7.it/approfondimento/dettaglio.asp?prop=dueminutiunlibro. 23 August 2009.
- Giovanni Dozzini, Da Empoli Jr sulle orme del suo avo, Europa, 2 agosto 2008 http://www.europaquotidiano.it/dettaglio/58653/da_empoli_jrsulle_ormedel_suo_avo
- http://www.radio.rai.it/radio2/28minuti/view.cfm?Q_EV_ID=273943{{Dead link|date=May 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}