It opens, on theme of oblivionthe ninth edition of the social regeneration project of the suburbs Lovely Borders.
The meeting will be held Thursday 2 May at 6.30 pm in the Hall of Mirrors of Palazzo Malvinni Malvezzi in Matera.
Illustrious guest of this preview will be the writer Emanuele Trevi, winner of the 2021 Strega Prize and author of the book The Magician’s House, published in 2023 by Ponte alle Grazie.
They will dialogue with the author, Giada Filannino (bookseller and librarian) and Isabella Marchetta (archaeologist).
Born in Rome in 1964, Emanuele Trevi is among the most appreciated writers and critics of his generation and author of numerous novels among which:
- Something written (2012, Strega finalist, winner of the European Prize for Literature, translated into eighteen languages), Sogni e favole (2019, Viareggio Prize),
- The magician’s house (2023), and a new edition of the essay Distant Music (2012), all published by the Ponte alle Grazie publishing house.
- He has also published Instructions for the use of the Wolf (Castelvecchi, 1994),
- The dogs of nowhere (Einaudi, 2003),
- Without verse (Laterza, 2004),
- The book of perpetual joy (Rizzoli, 2010),
- Il Popolo di Legno (Einaudi, 2015) and Due Vite (Neri Pozza, 2020), with which he won the 2021 Premio Strega.
He collaborates with the «Corriere della Sera».
Amabili Confini will officially start on May 16th and will last until June 13th.
Every Thursday, on a weekly basis, some neighborhoods of the city will come alive to welcome five important writers.
The first appointment will see the poet Isabella Leardini as a guest at Villa Longo.
This will be followed by meetings with Ester Viola, who will be in San Pardo on May 23rd.
On May 30th it will be the turn of Francesco Pacifico, who will first meet the students of the Liceo Classico “E. Duni”, and in the evening the residents of the Serra Rifusa district. On June 6th Serra Friday will welcome Giuseppe Genna and on June 13th the Lanera neighborhood will welcome Lisa Ginzburg.
The writers – each associated with a specific macro-area made up of different neighborhoods – will dialogue with the authors of the compositions chosen from the texts coming from those areas.
The selection criterion of the works received will essentially concern the ability to arouse emotions in readers.
The second part of each meeting will be reserved for the presentation of the guest writer’s workin dialogue with two moderators.
The sections included in the review are:
- “Amabili versi” dedicated to poems on the theme of “oblivion”;
- “Social suburbs” in which the stories of migrants from the reception centers and inmates of the Matera prison are given voice;
- “Fuori zona”, reserved for writings from other places in Basilicata and other Italian regions and “Amabili Alchimìe”, i.e. spaces for sharing with cultural associations active in the Lucanian area and beyond.
In this regard, the Amabili Confini association has drawn up a memorandum of understanding with the “Spiragli” cultural movement, thanks to which the initiative will also be replicated in Altamura with the same methods.
The Furthermore, on 7 June, the Altamura community will welcome the writer Giuseppe Genna who, on that occasion, will present his latest novel “Yara. True crime.”
The event will end on June 20th with Marco Malvaldi, guest of Amabili Confini Off.
He has declared Francesco Mongiello, creator and artistic director of Amabili Confini:
“It will be an edition full of unmissable events, both for the quality of the guests – the winner of the 2021 Strega Prize and some prominent names in Italian fiction – and for the beauty of the texts that have reached us from the city’s neighborhoods and other municipalities Italians.
Once again we were able to count on the dedication of the teachers who acted as spokespersons for this important initiative among the school desks, and on the collaboration of Tolbà and the Matera prison where the meeting with Marilù is scheduled for 8 May Ardillo, communications manager of the Casillo Foundation.
The author, of Apulian origins, will present the book “Parlami inside”, a collection of letters written by ordinary people to unknown prisoners. It will be an opportunity for you to read some of them, trying to weave a dialogue that promises to be intense and exciting.”
The complete program is online on the Amabili Confini website.
The project, sponsored by the Municipality of Matera, does not benefit from public funding but relies on the support of private partners.
