Mulitipli Forti: The Italian Literary Festival at Rizzoli Bookstore

Rizzoli hosts the conclusion of this year's Multipli Forti: Voices from Contemporary Italian Literature, the fourth annual festival of contemporary Italian literature in New York. Multipli Forti opens a transatlantic window onto Italian literature today, as told by the authors who wrote or are writing it.

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present Multipli Forti: Voices from Contemporary Italian Literature, the third annual festival of contemporary Italian literature in New York.

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11.00 a.m.

ROUNDTABLE

The Role of Literary Awards in the Promotion of Books and Authors in Italy and America

talks by: Leonardo Colombati (vice-president of the Premio Viareggio), Ruth Dickey (Executive Director of the National Book Foundation), Christoph Irmscher (Co-VP Awards National Book Critics Circle), Gabriele Pedullà (Executive committe of the Strega Prize),

also present : Emanuela Anechoum (Mastercard debut work Prize 2024), (Donatella Di Pietrantonio (Strega Prize 2024), Aurora Tamigio (Bancarella Prize, John Fante debut work Prize 2024), Vincenzo Trione (Viareggio essays Prize 2024)

chairs: Michael Reynolds (editorial director Europa Editions) with Clara Ramazzotti (City College, Cuny)

12.00 p.m.

The Bridge Book Award

Introducing the Winners of the 2024 Edition, and Announcing the 2025 Italian Applications

We are proud to present the two Italian prize winners Carmen Pellegrino with her book Come la luce, La Nave di Teseo, and Carlo Vecce with his book Il sorriso di Caterina. La madre di Leonardo, Giunti editore; and the two American winners Aaron Hamburger with the book Hotel Cuba, Harper Perennials, Harper Collins publisher, and Millicent Marcus with Italian Film in the Present Tense, Toronto University Press, in dialogue with the jury members and the translators.

Also present : Maria Gliozzi, co-organizer of the prize, Anthony Tamburri, director of the Calandra Institute, Maria Letizia Rossi, from the Federazione Unitaria Italiana Scrittori, together with the representatives of the American Academy, Centro Studi americani, Civitella Ranieri Foundation.

chairs: Fabio Finotti (director of the Italian Cultural Institute in NY) and Maria Ida Gaeta (curator of Multipli Forti Festival)

1.00 p.m. lunch

4.00 p.m.

Talks by:

Michael Frank America, Italy

Anita Likmeta Memory Between Truth and Reconciliation

Laura Imai Messina Sentimental Odonomy

chairs: Chiara Benetollo (Petey Greene Program) and Eugenio Refini (New York University)

5.30 p.m.

Talks by:

Gabriella Dal Lago Collective Self-Portrait: Narrating Ourselves in the Near

Future

Paolo Pecere Every Place is a Forest

chairs: Andrea Capra (Princeton University) and Fabio Finotti (director IIC)

8.00 p.m.

closing reception

Host or Publisher Rizzoli Bookstore