Antonio Monda is a writer and the Artistic Director of the international literary festival Le Conversazioni. He has directed the Rome Film Festival between 2015 and 2021. He teaches in the Film and Television Department at New York University. He is the director of several documentaries as well as the feature film Dicembre, and has curated exhibitions for the Louvre, MoMA, Lincoln Center and the Guggenheim Museum. A regular contributor to the cultural pages of La Repubblica and Vogue, he is also a columnist for RAI and The Hollywood Reporter. His work has been published by The Paris Review, Fiction, The Common, and Vanity Fair. He is the author of ten novels, five collections of essays and an oral history of Hollywood for One Podcast. His books have been translated into eleven languages. On June 3, 2019, the President of Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella presented him with the decoration of Ufficiale al Merito della Repubblica.
