From 1st to 31st July the 6th edition of. will be held in the park of Villa Fabbricotti Slightlya literary review organized by the Municipality of Livorno, in collaboration with the Cooperativa Itinera, Il Chioschino di Filippo Brandolini, the Feltrinelli bookshop in Livorno and with the support of the Livorno Foundation.
The meetings will take place at 7pm at Il Chioschino di Filippo Brandolini on the stage surrounded by the greenery of the splendid Villa, home to the Labronica FD Guerrazzi Library, the center of the Livorno library system.
All appointments are free of charge, with online booking recommended.
For the complete program: https://www.leggeggermente.eu/
Thursday 4 July – 7.00 pm
Anita Likmeta
Fables of Communism (Marsilio, 2024)
Introduces: Simone Lenzi
THE BOOK
In her first novel Anita Likmeta writes in Italian and tells a story of childhood and adolescence. The country of the Eagles is the happiest there is and fairy tales tell of “donkeys, apple trees, operations aimed at saving a crazy girl with a ponytail, and of leaves that once planted can make not only garlics and onions sprout, but also houses”. Divided between the Ariela born and raised in Albania and the female Ariela who lives in the center of Milan, a pen full of “grace and without excess” investigates between the past of a child and the present of an adult, in two times and two forms that distance but similar and which give us an autobiography full of depth and dignity.
ORGANIC
Anita Likmeta was born in Durazzo and arrived in Italy in 1997, settling with his mother and brothers in a small town in the Abruzzo hinterland and then in Pescara. Her commitment and dedication allowed her to receive scholarships with which she attended the Corrado Pani Academy of Dramatic Arts in Rome and with which she obtained a degree in Literature and Philosophy at La Sapienza University, with a thesis compiled in Paris on relations between Albania and Italy in the period from 1922 to 1943. Since 2013 he has written about immigration for Il Fatto Quotidiano, Il Giornale, Avvenire, TPI (The Post Internazionale) and on Huffpost Italia. She was awarded in 2021 among the Inspiring 50 in Europe according to Corriere della Sera, from 2020 to 2023 she was Ambassador Connect Albania for IOM – UN Migration.
