Tel Quel was a French avant-garde literary magazine published between 1960 and 1982.
Amelia Rosselli was an Italian poet, musician, and musicologist close to John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen.
Roma Tre University is an Italian public research university in Rome, Italy, with its main campus in the Ostiense quarter.
Agi Mishol is an Israeli poet. Mishol's work has been published in several languages, and has won various awards including the Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award and the Yehuda Amichai prize for literature.
Karin Proia is an Italian actress who began acting in 1994. She has also directed.
Raquel Chalfi is an Israeli poet, filmmaker, and professor. In her career, she has published 21 volumes of poetry and book of prose. She worked at the Israeli Broadcasting Authority for much of her career. She is known for her experimental filmmaking style.
Jennifer Moxley is an American poet, editor, and translator (French) who was born in San Diego, California. She got her GED at 16, took college courses while working in her father's shop, spent a year as an au pair in Paris at age 18, and then attended the University of California, San Diego. Her time at the school is detailed in her memoir, The Middle Room. She currently teaches poetry and poetics at the University of Maine and resides in Orono, Maine with her partner, Steve Evans. She is working on an English translation of the poems and diaries of Quebecois poet Marie Uguay.
Igiaba Scego is an Italian writer, journalist, and activist.
Karen Alkalay-Gut is a poet, professor, and editor who lives in Israel and writes in English.
The 1523 papal conclave elected Cardinal Giulio de' Medici as Pope Clement VII to succeed Pope Adrian VI. According to conclave historian Baumgartner, the conclave was the "last conclave of the Renaissance".
Mitsou Ronat was a French poet, linguist and specialist of literary theory.
Goliarda Sapienza was an Italian actress and writer. She is best known for her 1998 novel L'arte della gioia.
Samira Sitail is a Moroccan former journalist and diplomat, and a former "Director of Information" of the country's semi-private broadcasting channel 2M.
Domenicangela Lina Unali was professor of English literature at the Faculty of Letters, University of Rome Tor Vergata since 1983. Previously, from 1969 to 1982, she taught at the University of Cagliari. She was Secretary and Treasurer of AISNA in the years 1971-1973.
Milena Agus is an Italian author from Sardinia. She is one of the leading novelists in the so-called Sardinian Literary Spring which began in the 1980s and which includes other international names such as Michela Murgia.
Etchika Choureau, born Jeaninne Paulette Verret, was a French film actress, active from 1953 to 1966. She remained in the spotlight thereafter for her continued friendship with her former lover, King Hassan II of Morocco.
Jean Louis Schefer was a French writer, philosopher, art critic, and theoretician of cinema and image.
Alice Ceresa was a Swiss writer.
Simonetta Bernardi was an Italian historian and academic. She taught at the Sapienza University of Rome and at Roma Tre University.
Meryem Alaoui is a Moroccan novelist, entrepreneur, communication and marketing expert, best known for her debut novel, Straight from the Horse’s Mouth, 2020.
