Book presentation at the Public Library
Sunday 16 October at 17.00
On Sunday 16 October at 5 p.m. in the conference room of the Public Library of Palazzo Mauri in via Brignone, Silvana Sonno’s book ‘Mariannina’ will be presented.
The meeting will be attended by Rosella Benedetti del Rio with the members of the Pagine in Volo reading group, at the presence of the author.
Written between March and June 2020, the novel is set at the time of the pandemic, it unfolds between a present time of reflection and remembrance, and an unraveling past that brings to the surface buried, unknown realities.
In the context of a male-dominated society, the female characters struggle and clash with history. Among them is Lucilla, the protagonist, who, thanks to her niece Mariannina, unwitting deus ex machina of the story, gradually brings to light a personality that had previously been hiding in the meanders of her conscience.
Silvana Sonno lives in Perugia, where she has been teaching at high school for many years. Previously in Turin, she has been dealing with adult education in courses for workers (‘150 hours’). She was a founding member of the training and didactics magazine ‘Formazione ’80’, to which she contributed articles and investigations, until she moved to Umbria. She has long been involved in training for the ‘Rete delle donne AntiViolenza’ (Anti-Violence Women’s Network), set up to prevent and combat gender-based violence, of which she is a founding member. She has participated in numerous conferences on gender policies, in various contexts.
She has written works of fiction, poetry and non-fiction.
Her first novel Colpo di stecca was published in 2004 by the Milanese publishing house Nuove Scritture. She then published Il gioco delle nuvole, L’in/differenza del potere. Ragionamenti d’altro genere, and Andar per fiabe (2006) and with the Rome-based publishing house Il Filo, the collection of short stories Femminile e singolare (2007). Her most recent books include F per felicità e N per nostalgia, in the series Alfabeti per le emozioni (Cittadella Editrice – Assisi). In 2012 she published Le madri della patria. Donne e Risorgimento and in 2013 Le parole per dirsi. L’altra metà della lingua, the poetic sylloge Donna verrà and the novel Menopausa blues. For Galassia Arte Edizioni, again in 2013 the sylloge In forma di haiku was published. In 2014, again with Edizioni Era Nuova, she published the short story collection La signorina Greta e altre storie and the poetic sylloge Landai. More recent is the reprint of Andar per fiabe. November 2015 saw the publication of her short novel La chitarrina di Picasso and the poetic sylloge Anamorfé. May 2017 saw the publication of the essay Tre donne nella rivoluzione, dedicated to Marina Cvetaeva, Anna Achmàtova and Aleksandra Kollontaj. February 2018 saw the release of …Invecchiare stanca and in October Un po’ di Pop. Fiabe e dintorni. In 2019 she published the poetry collection È l’amore delle donne come l’Araba Fenice (Edizioni Robin – Torino) and the essay Un’oscura capacità di volo. Poete e poetiche nell’Umbria d’oggi (Edizioni Era Nuova); for the same publishing house came out in 2020 the poetry collection Dissonanze, published, and the narrative sylloge Bocca chiusa e portafoglio aperto. Ti racconto.
Spoleto, Thursday 13 October 2022
