It will be a morning of stories and love for books organized by the Catania Book Festival which on Saturday 20th, at 11.30, will host the twelve semi-finalist authors of the Strega Prize in the De Carlo Auditorium of Disum, in the former Benedictine Monastery. This is the first stop on the national tour of the most prestigious Italian literary prize, organized by the festival conceived and directed by Simone Dei Pieri and his staff with the support of the University of Catania, the Federico II Foundation – Regione Siciliana, the municipality of Catania and by the Balena Bianca consultancy firm.
The meeting is free and the seats have already been sold out for days. This year too, two young authors from Catania who are already respected by the public and critics will present the first stage of the tour which will visit other Italian cities in the following days: Lorena Spampinato and Mattia Insolia. The meeting will be opened by greetings from the Magnificent Rector of the University of Catania, Francesco Priolo, with the intervention of the director of the Catania Book Festival, Simone Dei Pieri, the president of the ARS, the Honorable Gaetano Galvagno, and Giuseppe La Boria for Bper Banca national sponsor of the Strega Prize.
The semi-finalist authors expected in Catania, who make up the dozen of the Strega Prize, are: Sonia Aggio with “In the Emperor’s Room” (Fazi), proposed by Simona Cives; Adrián N. Bravi with “Adelaida” (Nutriments), proposed by Romana Petri; Paolo Di Paolo with “Novel without humans” (Feltrinelli), proposed by Gianni Amelio; Donatella Di Pietrantonio with “L’età fragili” (Einaudi), proposed by Vittorio Lingiardi; Tommaso Giartosio with “Autobiogrammatica” (minimum fax), proposed by Emanuele Trevi; Antonella Lattanzi with “Cose che non si narrato” (Einaudi), proposed by Valeria Parrella; Valentina Mira with “On the same side you will find me” (Sem), proposed by Franco Di Mare; Melissa Panarello with “Story of my money” (Bompiani), proposed by Nadia Terranova; Daniele Rielli with “The invisible fire. Human history of a natural disaster” (Rizzoli), proposed by Antonio Pascale; Raffaella Romagnolo with “Aggiustare l’Universo” (Mondadori), proposed by Lia Levi; Chiara Valerio with “Chi dice e chi tace” (Sellerio), proposed by Matteo Motolese; Dario Voltolini with “Winter” (The Ship of Theseus), proposed by Sandro Veronesi.
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