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Arts - 18 Luglio

Camilleri, Creator of Inspector Montalbano, Gave Sicily to the World

Like Elena Ferrante, Camilleri is a ‘glocal’ author who manages to turn the local into the global, telling stories that are rooted deeply in Sicily while simultaneously representing the universal human conflicts that every reader can identify with.

Primo_Levi_(1960)

News - 31 Maggio

The NY Public Library Honors Primo Levi’s Centenary with Day-Long Reading

If This Is a Man (also known as Survival in Auschwitz) was published in 1947, only three years after Levi’s liberation. At first the book faced modest sales, yet ten years later, when it was re-published, his first-hand account of survival was embraced by an international audience. To honor this, the Library has brought together authors, artists, and scholars from across the world to pay tribute to Levi.

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Arts - 28 Maggio

Tuscan Summer Trips of Carla Fracci with the Poet Eugenio Montale

The poet Montale loved music and dance. He first saw Carla Fracci perform on March 5th, 1955, in her performance of Farewell Steps (Passo d’addio) for La Scala’s Ballet School. His admiration continued from the moment Fracci entered into the “Corps de Ballet” to when she became a protagonist on the international scene, including a 12 year stint with the American Ballet Theatre in New York...

Arts - 21 Maggio

On Women, Love, Writing, and her “Corpo felice”: An Interview with Dacia Maraini

"This is not a novel, but an autobiographical book that originates from the very painful memory of a child that I lost when I was seven months pregnant. But this work is also an opportunity to talk about maternity, as I imagine a relationship with a son that grows and matures through the years. I have seen many of my friends’ children grow older and rebel against their parents--some got lost in this process, but others returned and recovered. So this book is a journey inside the mother and son relationship. It starts from a personal circumstance but then tries to expand the question by pondering on discourses that touch upon history, mythology and education."

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News - 12 Maggio

Italy Is “Pre-Occupied”… And So Are We

The book addresses the topic of transnational migrations from, and to Italy in the 20th and 21st centuries. Two years after its publication, Fiore claims that the book “still creates an occasion to speak about migration.” Indeed, the book came out when migration was not only an “academic” topic, but also made headlines, was in everyone’s conversations, and even influenced political agendas.

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New York - 12 Settembre 2018

The “Piranhas” of New York: Beyond Hypocrisy, the Big Apple as seen by Roberto Saviano

According to Roberto Saviano, to write means to hurt, to go deep into the “wound of reality”. A wound that does not only belong to his beloved Napoli, but also to New York, hidden by the lights of Times Square and more than one veil of hypocrisy. We discussed literature, politics, Southern Italy and youth

New Literature From Europe Festival 2016

Arts - 19 Dicembre 2016

NLE: a tribute to translation, the ugly duckling art

"Translators are the gatekeepers of the palace: without them you don’t enter” — Salman Rushdie celebrates the underestimated art of translation in a successful annual of the Festival with more than 40 authors, poets, translators, journalists.

Philip Roth Told Me not to Write about Him and I Didn't Listen

English - 30 Dicembre 2015

Philip Roth Told Me not to Write about Him and I Didn’t Listen

Interview with Livia Manera, literary journalist and author of a book in which she recounts her encounters with some of the most important American writers. Among them, Philip Roth with whom the author has been friends for years and who told her not to write about him / Leggi in italiano

Ann Goldstein, Teresa Fiore, Amara Lakhous, Michael Reynolds

English - 7 Maggio 2015

Amara Lakhous and his Migrating Languages

At Montclair State University, writer Amara Lakhous, spoke about languages, migrations and translations in conversation with Ann Goldstein, an editor at The New Yorker and translator of Italian literature and Michael Reynolds editor-in-chief at Europa Editions (Leggi in Italiano)

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