Instituto Cervantes in Naples, three meetings in April dedicated to writing and literature

Three appointments in April with writing and literature in Spanish at the Instituto Cervantes in Naples.

Three live streaming meetings, in collaboration with the University of Naples L'Orientale, featuring the Italian-American publisher Sandro Ferri (7 April), the Spanish writer Edurne Portela (14 April) and a tribute to the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral (21 April).

As part of the 7th edition of the Course in Literary Translation for Publishing, on Wednesday 16.30 April at 1979:XNUMX pm, Sandro Ferri will be in conversation with the Spanish scholar Marco Ottaiano, director of the course. The New York publisher, founder with Sandra Ozzola of Edizioni E/O, will tell us how the publishing house has grown from XNUMX to today, including authors such as Gioconda Belli and Jorge Bucay. Without forgetting the great success of Elena Ferrante's fiction. An independent publishing house that from the beginning has been the expression of the desire to create bridges and breaches in literary frontiers to stimulate dialogue between cultures.

Telling stories to bring to light the dark aspects that society denies and hides is one of the goals of the writer and journalist Edurne Portela, protagonist of the meeting on April 14, at 18:XNUMX p.m. The Basque writer in dialogue with the Hispanist Paola Laura Gorla will talk about indifference, fomenter of ETA's terrorism and to which she dedicated both the essay El eco de los disparos: Cultura y memoria de la violencia and the award-winning novel Mejor la ausencia. Author of the recent Formas de estar lejos, Edurne Portela in this conversation will address issues related to ethical literature and her research work, focused on the study of violence and its representations in contemporary culture.

Wednesday, April 21 at 16.30:1945 pm, space for the tribute to the Chilean writer, poet and pedagogue Gabriela Mistral, Nobel Prize for Literature in XNUMX. A collective reading that will involve students, writers, poets and simply curious, inaugurated by the Hispanist Alessandra Riccio. All fans of Mistral, the first Latin American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, are invited to read (in Italian or Spanish) a poem or a fragment of her work, in a virtual space that will be populated by videoconference. Gabriela Mistral (born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga) has composed an extensive poetic and prose work that has made her one of the most powerful Latin American voices of the twentieth century.

All meetings are free to attend and will be held online via the Zoom platform with simultaneous translation. To access them, you must request a link and password at the email address: cultnap@cervantes.es.

For information and registration: www.napoles.cervantes.es – tel 08119563311.

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