Giuliano da Empoli is an Italian whose bestselling debut novel about Russia’s political elite, written in French, appears in English as The Wizard of the Kremlin. But his mother is Swiss ...

InterviewThe Swiss-Italian author of 'The Wizard of the Kremlin' discusses, in an interview with Le Monde, the responsibility that progressives have in the rise of authoritarian leaders backed by ...

The movie is based on the novel of the same name by Giuliano da Empoli and focuses on the rise of an authoritarian regime. The movie is based on the novel of the same name by Giuliano da Empoli ...

“We don’t belong to the same race as the rest of you,” the Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky tells a room of Westerners in Giuliano da Empoli’s “The Wizard of the Kremlin,” a novel ...

I knew that Giuliano da Empoli, its author, had understood Russia when he wrote of that 'looming sense of menace that is part of Moscow's charm', noting that the best places to live in the city ...

It has also turned its Swiss-Italian author, Giuliano da Empoli, into a coveted “Kremlinologist,” invited to lunch with the French prime minister and to France’s top morning news show to ...

Vladimir Putin standing for a fifth term as Russian president in the March elections will not set the bookmakers scrambling for cover – but it’s a safe bet to give Giuliano da Empoli’s The ...

Giuliano da Empoli’s fictionalised portrait of Vladislav Surkov dramatises the birth of the post-truth world. By David Sexton The Wizard of the Kremlin, a novelised account of the career of Vladimir ...

Halfway between fiction and political analysis, Giuliano da Empoli's new novel appeals to French readers' expectations, conveying the 'real Russia' in an often exoticized and stereotyped way ...

GIULIANO da EMPOLI, a Swiss-Italian author whose book, “The Wizard of the Kremlin” featuring a fictional President Vladimir V. Putin, has set off a public debate in France. Advertisement ...