"Naples is a wonderful city, with an incredible historical arc, with small streets not always known by many, but here is Maurizio De Giovanni. He is a great writer, one of our inspirations".
This is how Alicia Gimenez-Bartlett speaks on her first day in Naples, for the preview, tonight at the Grenoble at 19.30 pm, of Thriller Novel Festival in Naples, which will then bring almost 70 crime writers to the Neapolitan location from 9 to 12 June, in its first edition.
The Iberian crime writer, author of the Petra Delicado novels, is in Naples with her colleague Marta Sanz, both called by the Cervantes Institute for a preview of the review organized by Ciro Sabatino. Her new book “La presidenta”, in which she leaves Petra’s story to tell the mysterious death of the president of the Valencia Region, crosses thriller with politics.
The book has not yet been released in Italy, where the writer has decided to return for the Festival del Giallo. A country she loves: “In Italy – he tells – c'I've always enjoyed crime fiction, I've always loved the country from a literary point of view. In Spain it has always been a minor genre, to be read on the train, not literary, but in recent years we have had an important change, with the birth of many festivals and greater appreciation from critics, a huge revival, I hope it's not a passing fad".
A trend that has brought Gimenez-Bartlett to Italy also on TV with the series about her Petra which, the writer confesses: “I have never seen – not because I don't trust, but because I'm afraid to see the things I've written, to see the novel in images. When I write I only think about writing, in fact I make few physical descriptions of the characters".
Also in Naples is Marta Sanz, an Iberian crime novelist of great fame in her homeland, also at the Naples Crime Fiction Festival: “which is a wonderful city - He says - to host this Festival, its corners always tell something, they are in themselves a good opportunity to challenge the authors of this genre. But for an author who comes from outside Naples it is just to enjoy, then you write about cities that you really know, where you have lived. Being here however is very beautiful also the strong relationship that exists between us Spanish authors and colleagues from an Italy whose literature is a point of reference for me, for the way of investigating and discovering reality in novels”.
Article published on May 26, 2022 - 15:30 pm
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