Multipli Forti: Italian Literary Fiction Festival

 

June 07, 2022, 10:30 AM - 23:00 PM

A transatlantic window on the major literary trends of Italian fiction of our time, told by the authors who have written and are writing it.

The first edition of the Italian Contemporary/Literary Fiction Festival will take place in New York City, from June 6-8, 2022. This literary celebration, thematically titled Multipli Forti: Voices from Contemporary Italian Literature is a transatlantic window on the major literary trends in contemporary Italian fiction, featuring a select group of luminary Italian writers.

For a full description of the event, click here.

PROGRAM AT CIMA ON JUNE 7, 2022

10:30 a.m.    Carlo Lucarelli and Michela Murgia
                     with a video by Donatella Di Pietrantonio 

RESPONSE BY: Minna Zallman Proctor and Giancarlo Lombardi
                     MODERATOR:   Eugenio Refini (New York University)

in Italian (with translations) 

3:00 p.m.      Jonathan Bazzi and Walter Siti
                     with a video by Nadia Terranova            

RESPONSE BY: Todd Portnowitz and Michael Frank
                     MODERATOR:   Alessandro Giammei (Yale University)                                                                                                                       

in Italian (with translations) 

6:00 p.m.      Teresa Ciabatti, Valerio Magrelli, and Sandro Veronesi  

RESPONSE BY: Jenny McPhee
                      MODERATOR: Monica Calabritto (City University of New York) 

in Italian (with translations) 

THIS EVENT IS FREE. Reserve your tickets HERE for June 7 at CIMA!

For the program of the other days of the Festival, click here for June 6 at the Italian Cultural Institute, and click here for June 8 at Rizzoli Bookstore.