C‘It is good news for lovers of mysteries and murders to solve: From 3 to 5 April he returns Chills at km0, The literary festival organized by Sugarpulp magazine, dedicated to noir genre and yellow. The literary event that a few years since its inception is already a reference for lovers of the genre, this year the third edition, an important birthday that marks the transition to an international dimension.
There will be three days of meetings and debates Dedicated to gender literature with a very rich program of over 50 authors and authors including Gabriella Genisi, Nora Venturini, Gaetano Savatteri, Cinzia Bomoll, Maria Elisa Aloisi, Giuseppe di Piazza, Livio Frittella, Elisabetta Flumeri and Gabriella Giacometti, Simona Teodori, Patrizio Nissirio and Claudia Cocuzza.
Because we love the yellows
The data AIE, the Italian Editorial Association, presented to the 2024 edition of multiple free books, confirm a growing trend against the yellow genre, A data also supported by the high listening rates of the television programs dedicated to the crime.
The reasons for this success are manifold e to be searched above all among the folds of the human soul: “The desire to reveal the mysteries and the secrets is attributable to instinct inherent in human nature of discovering the truth. I have always loved yellow books because they are engaging and rich in suspense, and when I started writing it was natural to try my hand at the noir genre first and then. Discovering the culprit of a murder is similar to a game of society where they are the author and reader to participate side by side “he explained Cinzia Bomoll, director and author of the novels dedicated to the investigations of Nives Bonora (Ponte alle Grazie)winner of the Nabokov 2024 and among the authors present at the Festival.
The good that triumphs on evil
It is evident that yellow represents a realistic narrative form which, while telling reality in its height is at the same time reassuring, Because the investigations always lead to the discovery of a culprit and to restore the order of things, with a good dose of fun because as he says Patricia Highsmith in his essay How to write a mystery (Minimum fax with preface by Andrea Camilleri), It is a lively genre and a special lens through which to filter the world. It starts with a fragmented story which then becomes a sequence of investigations and stylistic choices. And as in fairy tales, the knots are dissolved by the comb with the discovery of the culprit and the evil is exorcised.
From romance to yellow: Elisabetta Flumeri and Gabriella Giacometti
Among the loyal protagonists of the festival there is the duo Flumeri & Giacometti, Creative couple linked by a friendship that dates back to the times of the University. They begin as authors of love novels and photo novels up to the long serial script, passing through the writing for radio and advertising.
They scroll all the genres, only yellow was missing, and here this volcanic couple of writers gave birth to the cycle dedicated to Emma and Kate (Amazon Publishing) and to the most recent No forgiveness (Guanda noir): «We are happy to participate in chills at km0 because it is an opportunity to talk about the genus Crime and to underline how it has become a way to tell the society in which we live. Moreover, it is no coincidence that, together with romance, noir and yellow are the load -bearing columns of publishing, although it is hardly recognized ». Elisabetta and Gabriella will be the speakers of Tim Willocks, who in addition to being a cult author is also a psychiatrist and It will be an opportunity to talk about physical and psychological violence not only on women, the main theme of Help Their latest novel.
An international edition
It is no coincidence that this year’s subtitle is eglobal diction, A definition that projects the boundaries of the newly festival over national borders thanks to the presence of two prestigious foreign guests.
Tim Willock, on April 6, 2024 in Lyon. (Photo by Sophie Bassouls/Sygma via Getty Images)
Saturday 5 April starting at 18.30 The Italian naturalized British writer and psychiatrist Tim Willocks, He will tell how his novels set in different eras and centuries are born. It will then be the turn of Glenn Cooper, A complex and eclectic figure of the US cinematographic and cultural scene than with his debut novel, The Library of the Dead (Edizioni Tea), First of a trilogy, he climbed the rankings around the world.
Among the novelties of this year there is also the horror genreas Danilo Villani, artistic director of the event points out: «For the first time the horror genre in its more classic form or Dracula by Bram Stoker, however revisited in an original way. In two novels, moreover, one of the darkest periods of our history is addressed: the years of lead ».
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