Manuel Vilas in Naples for two meetings. On September 29th at the Instituto Cervantes in Naples and on September 30th at the Campania Libri Festival
The writer Manuel Vilas arrives in Naples on 29 and 30 September 2022 for two meetings promoted by the Instituto Cervantes and the Campania Libri Festival.
On Thursday, September 29, at 17.30:6 p.m., the first of two meetings held as part of the eleventh edition of the course in literary translation for publishing, in collaboration with the University of Naples L'Orientale, will be held at the Instituto Cervantes in Naples (Via Chiatamone, XNUMXG). The meeting, titled "Babel: Countries, Languages, Books," will be introduced by Ana Navarro Ortega, director of the Instituto Cervantes in Naples, and moderated by Hispanists Augusto Guarino and Marco Ottaiano (L'Orientale University). The event is free to attend, both in person (for course students) and livestreamed on the Zoom platform (request the link at cultnap@cervantes.es).
Friday 30 September at 16pm, at the Rare Room of the National Library of Naples (P.
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Access to the meeting is free with reservations required on the Eventbrite website.
Writer, poet and narrator born in 1962, Manuel Vilas is one of the Spanish authors most loved by the Iberian public and the specialized press. Originally from Barbastro, he divides his time between Madrid and Iowa City, regularly collaborating with various newspapers.
He has published collections of poetry and novels, including "España," named by Quimera magazine as one of the ten most important Spanish-language novels of the first decade of the century. His work is included in major Spanish anthologies of poetry and fiction. "In tutto c'è stata bellezza" (Guanda 2019), translated into over twenty languages, was his first book published in Italy, after enjoying great success in his homeland, with twelve editions in one year. El País and El Mundo named it the best book of 2018. In 2020, Guanda published the novel "La gioia, all''improvviso"—a finalist for the 2019 Planeta Prize in Spain and the Jean Monnet Prize for European Literature in France—and in 2021, the poetry collection "Amor." His latest novel, "I baci," also published by Guanda, tells of a romantic and carnal love.
Vilas' literature has a strong autobiographical flavor. Stories that happened to an ordinary, at times modest self, which, filtered by his skilful writing, lose all opacity. The reader experiences them as his own and non-transferable, when in reality they have just been transferred to him by the author's style.
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