This year, Italy is the Guest of Honour at the Frankfurter Buchmesse 2024.
For this special occasion, the photography exhibition ‘Scritto in faccia. 60 scrittrici e scrittori italiani del Novecento’, conceived by The Italian Literary Agency and curated by Alberto Saibene, in collaboration with AIE and with the support of Italia Ospite d’Onore 2024 Fiera del Libro di Francoforte.
The exhibition design is by Francesco Dondina.
The event will be held in the Italian Pavilion, Forum Level 1, from 1:00 to 1:45 pm.
Speakers will be:
Marco Vigevani, CEO The Italian Literary Agency
Cristiana Chiumenti, Project Coordinator (TILA)
Alberto Saibene, Curator
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Our Italian authors’ new books out in october 2024:
Maurizio Carucci, Non esiste un posto al mondo (Harper Collins), october 4th
Linda Ferri, Il nostro regno (Feltrinelli / Gramma), october 8th
Vitalino Trevisan, Abbreviazioni e prospettive (Oligo Editore), october 11th
Antonio Scurati, M. L’ora del destino (Bompiani) october 16th
Marco Albino Ferrari, Il canto del principe (Ponte alle Grazie) october 18th
Paola Jacobbi, Luisa (Sonzogno) october 22nd
Laura Imai Messina, Tutti gli indirizzi perduti (Einaudi) october 29th
Vittorio Lingiardi, Corpo umano (Einaudi) october 29th
Cristina Battocletti with Epigenetica (La Nave di Teseo) wins:
The third edition of the Dolores Prato – Città di Treia literary prize and the Premio Flaiano per la for fiction in the over-35 category!
Pedro Almodóvar wins the Golden Lion at the 81st Venice Film Festival for The Room Next Door, his first film in English, starring Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore. The film, a drama about euthanasia inspired by the novel Attraverso la vita (Garzanti) by Sigrid Nunez, tells the story of two friends who meet again after years: Martha, seriously ill with cancer, asks Ingrid to stay with her until the end, when she decides to end her life.
Our Italian authors’ new books out in september 2024:
Ugo Barbàra, Malastrada (Rizzoli), september 3rd
Giuseppe Berto, La Fantarca (Neri Pozza), september 3rd
Diego De Silva, I titoli di coda di una vita insieme (Einaudi), september 10th
Giovanni Raboni, Teatro. Testi e Traduzioni (Mondadori), september 10th
Sara Fruner, La rossa goletta (Crocetti), september 10th
Maria Rosa Cutrufelli, Maria Giudice (Neri Pozza), september 13th
Andrea Moro, Cinquantun Giorni (La Nave di Teseo), september 17th
Chiara Gamberale, Dimmi di Te (Einaudi), september 24th
Pierluigi Cappello, Come un Sentiero di Matita. Poesie, prose, interventi (BUR), september 24th
Alain Elkann, Il silenzio di Pound (Bompiani), september 25th
The Fondazione Il Campiello has decided to award the Special Lifetime Achievement Award for 2024, which has been awarded since 2010 by the foundation of the same name to a distinguished personality of contemporary Italian literary culture, to Paolo Rumiz. The award will be presented at the final of the 62nd edition of the Campiello Prize, scheduled for Saturday 21 September at the “Gran Teatro La Fenice” in Venice.