Glenn Cooper in Bisceglie successfully opens the way for Libri nel Borgo Antico 2024 – BisceglieLive.it

The international event which yesterday evening, Monday 24 June, in the presence of the American author Glenn Cooper, a literary phenomenon with over 4 million copies sold in Italy alone, officially inaugurated the fifteenth edition of the Libri nel Borgo festival was a great success Antico di Bisceglie for the presentation of his latest book “L’Ultimo Conclave”, published by Casa Editrice Nord.

Cooper chose Bisceglie and the Libri nel Borgo Antico festival as the only stop in Southern Italy, after the Sicilian preview, of the tour which marks his return to our country after six years of absence. Harvard-educated archaeologist, doctor, translated into over 31 languages ​​and loved all over the world by tens of millions of faithful fans of his stories, Cooper’s every visit to Italy, to which he is bound by a special affection, constitutes a rare and unmissable opportunity of direct meeting with the writer for his many readers. And it was like this also in Bisceglie, with a copy signing that lasted for over an hour after the presentation expertly conducted on stage by Adriano Monti Buzzetti, President of the Center for Books and Reading and head of the Culture editorial team of TG2, who spoke with the author about the eighth volume of the very successful saga starring Cal Donovan, a professor of theology with brilliant intellectual gifts.

The international event with Glenn Cooper is only the first of the preview events that pave the way towards the fifteenth edition of the Libri nel Borgo Antico festival this year. On July 10th, the city of Bisceglie will have the great honor of hosting the five finalists of the Campiello Prize in the presence of the authors who this year are competing for what is one of the most prestigious literary awards in Italy.

These are two stages of approach that give a sense of what we can expect in August, with what promises to be the largest and richest edition of Libri nel Borgo Antico of these first fifteen years, with the names most important in the Italian literary panorama, in non-fiction and journalism, and with all those authors who in recent months have remained constantly at the top of the rankings of best-selling books. The appointment with Libri nel Borgo Antico 2024 is for Friday 30th, Saturday 31st August and Sunday 1st September, with a preview show on 29th August and a closing one on Monday 2nd September.