Rosella Postorino will be a guest of Giulio Bookshop at the Hotel del Campo of Matera vFriday 19 April 2024 at 6.00 pm. The well-known writer will present her latest novel “I just loved you” for the Feltrinelli types.
The meeting will be held in the Ortega room of the Hotel del Campo and will be open to all interested public.
He will dialogue with the author Dr. Marianna Dimona.
ROSELLA POSTORINO
Grew up in Liguria, in San Lorenzo al Mare[1]has lived and worked in Rome since 2001.
He made his debut in fiction in 2004 with the short story In a capsule within the anthology Girls you should know.
His first novel, The room upstairswith which she won the Rapallo Prize in the First Work section and was among the twelve books nominated for the Strega Prize.
In 2009 he published The summer we lost God (Benedetto Croce Award, Special Jury Award Cesare De Lollis) e You are (not) your job inside Working for paradise; in 2013 you published The docile body. He translated and edited some works of the writer Marguerite Duras.
With the novel The tasters, published in 2018, won the Campiello Prize, the Pozzale Luigi Russo Prize, the Rapallo Prize, the Vigevano Lucio Mastronardi Prize, the Chianti Literary Prize, the Wondy Prize, the Sognalib(e)ro Prize and, in France, the Prix Jean-Monnet. This novel, translated into more than 32 languages, will be made into a film directed by Cristina Comencini.
In 2019 he published his first children’s book: All down in the air.
With the novel I just loved you (Feltrinelli Editore) in 2023 she ranked second in the Premio Strega.
Book: “I only loved you” ed. Feltrinelli
The novel is set in the nineties against the backdrop of the wars in the former Yugoslavia, in particular the one in Bosnia in ’92. The protagonists are very young people who have the misfortune of living in those years: poverty, destruction, death, violence constitute their reality and dot their daily lives. The young protagonists are removed from their city, a besieged Sarajevo, and sent to nearby Italy. The journey is full of twists and turns and the terror that the little travelers experience is alleviated only by their very closeness, which will later become a real friendship. The real context of the war opens the way to issues of particular interest and which, unfortunately, are still very topical today: violence, escape from the country of origin, separation, uprooting; as well as there being a careful look at the relationships between parents and children, in particular the bond with mothers, on friendship, on first falling in love, on adolescent mistakes.
The Di Giulio bookshop in collaboration with L’hotel del Campo invites reading lovers to participate in the meeting, because it will be full of food for thought which, especially in a historical period like the one we are experiencing, is considered necessary to spread feelings positive, to stimulate proactive actions and arouse desires for collaboration, sharing, discussion and peace, against any form of conflict and oppression.
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