The meeting with Nicola Gardini is one of the highlights of Il maggio dei libri. Nicola Gardini, writer and professor of Italian and comparative literature at the University of Oxford, will lead the audience into the world of narrative, between the said and the unsaid in stories.
The event is scheduled for Friday 20 May 2016 at 5.30 pm, in the Museum of the Duchy of Spoleto (Rocca Albornoziana).
Free admission.
Nicola Gardini lives between Oxford and Milan. He won the Viareggio-Repaci prize with the novel “Le parole perdute di Amelia Lynd” (Feltrinelli 2012) . He teaches Italian literature at the University of Oxford. He is Fellow of Keble College. He wrote novels, poems, literary essays and translations. He translated ancient classics (Ovid, Marcus Aurelius, Catullus), but also more recent authors (Woolf, Dickinson, Hughes, Auden, Simić). He is also very active as a columnist (Il Sole 24 Ore’s “Domenicale”, Il Corriere della Sera, Il Fatto Quotidiano, “Times Literary Supplement”) and as a painter.
Gardini is one of the most important personalities from the world of culture that animates Il Maggio dei Libri in Spoleto.
Other important meetings are scheduled with Riccardo Di Segni, Chief Rabbi of the Jewish Community in Rome (Tuesday May 24 at the Diocesan Museum, 5.30 pm), Stefano Vella, director of the Global Health department, who wrote important pages in the fight against AIDS (Tuesday May 31 at Palazzo Mauri, 5.30 pm) and writers Moria Egan and Damiano Abeni (Monday May 23 at Palazzo Mauri, 5.30 pm).
