In Agrigento today, Saturday 4 May, at the “Pasolini” cultural center, in via Atenea, the book “La Stanza di Natalia”, by Monica Gentile, will be presented at 5.30 pm. The meeting will be moderated by the president of the Centre, Maurizio Masone.
The book tells Isabella’s troubled story: at ten years old her mother suddenly abandons the family and her father, completely inadequate to deal with the situation, decides to send her on holiday to her grandparents. It is the summer of 1981, and Isabella leaves her Agrigento for the north. She doesn’t know it yet, but it’s the journey that will change her life forever. In Turin, her uncle Alfredo, with whom she has always been a little in love with her, her grandfather Pacifico and above all Antonia, her grandmother who has the special gift of inventing stories to ease the burden of a tiring existence, are waiting for her.
The author was born in Agrigento. After living for a few years between France, the United Kingdom and Rome, she returned to Sicily and today lives and works in Palermo. You made your debut in 2014 with “Tira sirocco”, in May 2019 “What can save me today” was published. She received mention in the Calvino award.
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Professional journalist, from Agrigento. In February 1999 he made his television debut with Teleacras. Since 24 April 2012 he has been the editor in chief of the Agrigento broadcaster’s news. Angelo Ruoppolo has been a guest on numerous national radio and television windows. Just to name a few: Trio Medusa on Radio DeeJay, La vita in diretta on Rai 1, Rai 3 for Blob Best, Rai 1 with Tutti massimo per la tele, Barbareschi shock on La 7, Rai Radio 2 with Le colonna d’Ercole, with Radio DeeJay for Ciao Belli, on Rai 3 with Mi manda Rai 3, with Rai 2 in Coast to coast, with Rai 2 in Gli sbandati, again with Rai 2 in Viaggio nell’Italia del Giro, with Striscia la notizia on Canale 5 , with Radio 105 in the Radio 105 Zoo and Rebus on Rai 3. He was present and mentioned several times on the home pages of the Repubblica and Live Sicilia websites. Ruoppolo’s lookalike, Angelo Joppolo, alias Alessandro Pappacoda, was the protagonist of the successful and popular column “Camera Zhen”, broadcast on Teleacras, and of the Christmas film “Scratch and Run”, with a very crowded “premiere” at the Cine Astor of Agrigento. His videos on YouTube have almost 30 million total views as of June 2023. He was awarded several prizes including: “Sipario d’Oro”, “Alessio Di Giovanni”, “Mimosa d’Oro”, “Pippo Montalbano”. Email address: [email protected]
