ANDra at home in Mantua to present her books and those of her colleagues, but unfortunately this year al Festivaletteratura from 6 to 10 September There will not be. Michelle Murgia disappeared too soon, but will be remembered as the writer who became a symbol of the fight for rights, whatever they were. And, in fact, on September 9, Piazza Castello will become a space to pay homage to her, involving family and friends.
Mantua Festivaletteratura from 6 to 10 September
“Find the words” is the challenge that crosses the twenty-seventh edition of the Festival. The event, in fact, comes at a historic moment, as the organizing committee of the event explains, in which give names to things and to what happens around us it seems increasingly difficult.
«Putting words together, trying to mend their meaning, measuring their “resistance” and making them dialogue is the effort that Festivaletteratura has always committed» they say from Mantua. All this, they add, is expressed «in calling authors and authors from all over the world, in always opening up new spaces for listening and exchange. In attempting more or less daring linking operations between different languages and narratives to read, through literature, a reality that speaks and seems to us not to say».
Michela Murgia has been a constant presence, since in 2010, after the publication of “Accabadora”, she arrived at Festivaletteratura for the first time (@Instagram)
The word in the center
This research, in the 2023 edition, intends to give even more strength and evidence to the words, bringing them back to the streets with more intense ways of comparing authors and readers. And, above all, by offering more and more the possibility to girls and boys to re-discuss its meaning, to open them to their own experience.
Moving in this direction brings the Festivaletteratura to get out of its more “traditional” places by moving in and out of the city in study centers, museums and other realities to ensure that words remain and continue to tell.
The guests and the lodgings
From India to the Americas, from the many souls of Europe to the Mediterranean, the rich international panorama of the Festival is a crossroads of presences and narrative proposals that look at different geographical contexts. But at a time when it is essential to find in literature also an answer to the blind brutality of war, the Nobel Prize for literature Olga Tokarczuk returns to Mantua. Ample space is given to the memories of the Balkan and Albanian diaspora, which find voice in the dialogue between the Croatian writer Ivana Bodrožić and Lella Costa or in the meeting between Gazmend Kapllani and Elvira Mujčić.
Between novels, autobiographies and memoirs
More recent literature it seems increasingly marked by the affirmation of autofiction, or those forms of narration in which the author is the protagonist. To talk about it at the Festival are Paul Jordan And Walter Sites, Emmanuel Trevi And Francis Small, Marco Drago in dialogue with Marta Caias well as many of the foreign guests present in a series of meetings.
Of novels that borrow atmospheres, situations, individual episodes of personal or family biographies offer different testimony Frances Capossele And Silvia DiNatale. Olga Campofreda And Mavie DaPonte and, encroaching on the territories of comics, Piersandro Pallavicini And I get up, Vincent Latronico And Manuel Fior. Authors such as will speak of lives between books Dominic Starnone, Theresa Crimson And Francis Permunian.
Mysteries of the “yellow”
In the appointments on yellow, the Festival will host, among the many meetings, two giants of the media story of the darkest and most controversial pages of our country’s crime news. They are Charles Lucarellivoice and face of the cult program Night blueand the reporter Stephen Nazisauthor of the hugely popular Investigations podcast.
On the international front, the encounters with the young Indian author stand out Deepti Kapoor and with a thoroughbred mystery writer like the Englishman Anthony Horowitz. While a friendly noir-tinged duet is the one offered by Giancarlo DeCataldo And Alessandro Robecchi.
Instead, they are confronted on the very popular genre of yellow comics Luca Crovi And the designer Daniele BigliardoWhile Donato Carrisi will offer an unprecedented lesson on fear.
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