June 20-July 2, Kutamura, Cohen, Banville also on the island.
Le Conversazioni, an international festival conceived by Antonio Monda and Davide Azzolini, returns to Italy with its 18th edition from June 20 to July 2, after the meetings in New York. For the first time, Lorenzo Jovanotti will be the guest of the cultural event in Capri. Among the Italian writers who will be speaking in Rome are Nadia Terranova, Mattia Feltri, and in Anacapri Massimiliano Virgilio, Igiaba Scego, Vanessa Roghi.
In Piazzetta Tragara, Antonio Monda will converse with other protagonists of contemporary literature such as Hari Kunzru, Katie Kitamura, Joshua Cohen and John Banville. The theme chosen for 2023 is the journey/journey, from the pleasure journey to the one undertaken to improve one's condition or because moved by desperation. From the interior and spiritual journey to the one that every artist undertakes in their creative path. The meetings begin in Rome at Palazzo Merulana (via Merulana 121 – 19 pm), home of the Elena and Claudio Cerasi Foundation. From June 25, the Festival lands as usual on the blue island.
The first three events will be held at Villa San Michele in Anacapri (19 pm), on June 28 (19 pm), opening in Piazzetta Tragara with Jovanotti. The program will continue on June 29 with the British novelist and journalist Hari Kunzru; on June 30 it will be the turn of the American writer Katie Kitamura; the American writer Joshua Cohen, Pulitzer Prize winner in 2022, will be the protagonist of the conversation on July 1 and John Banville, Irish novelist and winner of the Man Booker Prize, will close the festival on July 2. For the Capri events, the guest protagonists have written their own contribution.
The texts will be read by the authors themselves and distributed to the public at the opening of each event. The widespread festival currently has over 280 guests and since 2006, has organized events in New York, Washington, Bogota, Rome, Naples, Capri, Palermo and from next fall also in Milan and Paris.
Article published on 15 June 2023 - 17:35
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