Da Friday 10 a Sunday September 12, in San Nicola Arcella, the second edition of the Crawford Tower Award Festival: three days of cultural meetings between fiction, theatre and cinema, which will take place in various locations in the city, with notable guests and the winners of the 2021 Torre Crawford Prize literary competition.
The Award was born in 2020 as an independent cultural initiative to re-evaluate in a literary key the place of inspiration of the American novelist (Italian by birth) Francis Marion Crawford, the most successful writer between the 19th and 20th centuries, who spent the summers between the Cilento coast and the tower that today bears his name, where he set one of his most famous works.
The literary competition inspired by him now highlights new talents, published in annual themed anthologies. This year's guest stars include the writer-director Aldo Side (Friday 10, 18.00 pm), author of cinema classics such as The funny thing (from the novel by Giuseppe Berto) or Disobedience (from Alberto Moravia), also famous for his thrillers The short night of the glass dolls e Who saw her die?, and for the shocking The last train of the night, films for which Quentin Tarantino called him an absolute master.
On the literary front he presents himself Alda Teodorani (Saturday 11, 18.00 pm), a cult author who emerged from the ranks of the Group 13 of Bologna, later included among the Young Cannibals, and a great literary experimenter between genre fiction and mainstream. Of her works between noir and gothic, Dario Argento said “they resemble my deepest nightmares“. A subject of study in universities around the world, this year it is the godmother of the Festival’s anthology.
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For the theatrical part, the writer returns to the Festival Jade Trebeschi and the musician George Rizzo, authors and interpreters of The Show of the Desuete, inaugurated last June in Salerno Literature, which will go on stage Friday 10 at 21.45 hours at the Apple Garden (only paid event, upon reservation).
The work is inspired by The column of obsolete words di Jade Trebeschi, an unusual cultural phenomenon on social networks for a year now. On the evening of Saturday 11th from 21.00:XNUMX pm the award ceremony for the winners of the Torre Crawford Prize will take place, as well as the presentation of the new anthology Falling in Love with a Ghost (published by Oakmond Publishing) which, in addition to the classic by Francis Marion Crawford The Water Woman and the unpublished story by Alda Teodorani, collects fourteen stories selected from the themed literary competition, between the category dedicated to writers of all ages and the one reserved for high schools, from which unexpected talents have arisen.
The anthropologist and FM Crawford expert, Professor, will be present at the evening. Mauro Francesco Minervino. Among other events, all with free admission: the narrative lessons by the writer Andrea Carlo Cappi (Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th at 17.00 pm), president of the jury of the Award and artistic director of the Festival; and the literary aperitifs (Saturday at 11.30, Sunday at 11.30 and 18.00) with the book presentations of the participants in the Festival, including Cappi himself (with his bestseller on the Lady Diana case, Ladykill), Giada Trebeschi (with the new edition of the historical novel Gli Ezzelino, already a finalist for the Campiello Prize), Alfredo Martinelli with Sparse carte and recent works by some of the winners of the Prize: Mario Gazzola, Marco Marinoni, Claudia Perfetti.
There will also be space for remembering two recently deceased authors: Andrea G. Pinketts, in honor of which the Cultural Association dedicated to him has established a special award associated with the Festival; and Stefano Di Marino, the master of popular fiction who passed away last August 6th.
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