Romanian writer Mircea Cărtărescu was among a group of writers received by Pope Leo XIV on June 24 to mark the centenary of the publishing house of the Holy See. The group included American novelists Marilynne Robinson, Elizabeth Strout, and Jonathan Safran Foer, French writers Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt and Sorj Chalandon, Irish writer Colum McCann, Spanish author Julia Navarro, and Italians Vittorio Lingiardi, Daniele Mencarelli, and Enrico Brizzi, according to Infovaticana . The Libreria Editrice Vaticana (LEV), the Holy See’s publishing house, was established in 1926, during the pontificate of Pius XI.