It is the queen of Italian literature, Dacia Maraini, who raises the curtain on the fourteenth edition of Il Maggio dei Libri on Tuesday 23 April, the UNESCO World Book and Copyright Day which, as is now tradition, officially opens Il Maggio dei Libri and which this year constitutes a further, prestigious starting line for the inauguration in Strasbourg, the symbolic city and home of the European Union, of its 2024 role as World Book Capital. The appointment is in Rome, at the headquarters of the Center for books and reading (via Pasquale Stanislao Mancini, 20, 11.30 am), where the writer and poet – who has always been a supporter of the sense of values and the project of Europe – will dialogue with the professor and essayist Guido Vitiello, who dedicated his latest work, Happy reading (Il Saggiatore, 2024) to reading as a key to accessing the lives and emotions of imaginary strangers.
The event is organized by the Center for Books and Reading in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Strasbourg and Corriere della Sera, and is broadcast live on the - platform, as well as on websites and social profiles of the Center for Books and Reading and the IIC of Strasbourg. Doing the honors are the president of the Center for Books and Reading Adriano Monti Buzzetti and the director Luciano Lanna.
The happy Union: the Europe of lib(e)rs – this is the title of the meeting – wants to express a closeness to the starting blocks also reflected in the guiding themes of the respective events: the freedom invoked by Se leggi ti lib(e) ri!, the name of this edition of Il Maggio dei Libri and that crossroads of ideas and debates, creative and poetic energies that constitutes Strasbourg, the European city par excellence, a synthesis of humanism and contamination, of tradition and the future, of anchoring in memory and of openness to the younger generations. Different words and suggestions to convey the same message: without reading, capable of opening minds and horizons, freeing from ignorance and prejudice, and without a spirit of common belonging to a single community of peoples, it is not possible to build a shared future , fair and equitable for all.
The Italian Cultural Institute of Strasbourg participates in the Il Maggio dei Libri campaign with a special evening organized at its headquarters, 7 rue Schweighaeuser, on Friday 26 April at 6pm. During the meeting dedicated to Italian books and hosted by the writer and teacher Kareen De Martin Pinter, lovers and enthusiasts of Italian literature will come together to read and let the public (re)discover their favorite Italian authors. The event takes place in Italian and French and is part of the Great Reading which will be the leitmotif of the inaugural week (23-28 April) of Strasbourg, UNESCO World Book Capital 2024.
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