Cagliari, 10 May 2024 – “Michela Murgia is the image of a Sardinian woman, independent, strong, intellectual, writer, narrator, interpreter of the contradictions of our times, always positive, against discrimination, against any kind of violence including gender violence, a message that still persists and will never go away. Michela Murgia invites women to reclaim their role within society and therefore to counteract the state of discrimination and subordination to the figure of man to which we are still subjected, which invites us to grow, evolve and generate tools for sharing, coexistence and circularity of culture and to rebel every time someone tries to tell us how we should live or how we could be happy”. The writer Eleonora Carta thus remembered Michela Murgia, together with the publisher Silvia Corbu, during a meeting held late in the morning at the stand of the Sardinia Region, on the second day of the XXXVI Turin International Book Fair.
Eleonora Carta and Silvia Corbu proposed some passages from the book “Ricordatemi come vi pare” published posthumously in view of the Turin cultural event, to which Michela Murgia was particularly attached. Her last presence dates back to the XXXV edition of the Book Fair, a few months before her untimely death, which occurred last August 10th.
“His presence was always enlightening, his interventions at the Book Fair always brought the strength of his ideas, I remember his last interview here, a year ago, at the Stampa stand, wrapped in an almost oriental dress with a beautiful white turban in her head – added Eleonora Carta -. Despite the illness that unfortunately would soon take her away, her smile was radiant, because she faced illness and death with the strength with which she faced all the challenges in her life who presented themselves to her”, concluded Carta.
