MULTIPLI FORTI
Voices from contemporary Italian literature
ITALIAN LITERARY FICTION FESTIVAL – IV EDITION
NEW YORK
January 14-15-16, 2025
(ITALIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE – FORDHAM UNIVERSITY – RIZZOLI Bookstore)
in collaboration with
FUIS (Federazione Unitaria Italiana Scrittori) – THE BRIDGE Prize – Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, NEW
YORK UNIVERSITY– HUNTER College, CUNY – FORDHAM UNIVERSITY – RIZZOLI Bookstore
Multipli Forti is promoted by the Italian Cultural Institute of New York directed by Fabio Finotti. The event is curated by Maria Ida Gaeta and intends to promote contemporary Italian literature within the world of international publishing. Multipli Forti transatlantic window overlooking the top tendencies of Italian literature by authors, editors, translators. It is our yearly appointment to reinforce the literary bridge between Italy and the United States, beyond cultural stereotypes.
The guests for the fourth edition of the January 14 -15 -16, 2025 are:
Emanuela Anechoum, Andrea Bajani, Chiara Benettollo, Luca Briasco, Monica Calabritto,
Andrea Capra, Ilide Carmignani, Leonardo Colombati, Gabriella Dal Lago, Ruth Dickey,
Donatella Di Pietrantonio, Nicholas During, Michael Frank, Mariangela Gualtieri, Lorenza
Honorati, Laura Imai Messina, Christoph Irmscher, Anita Likmeta, Maddalena Maggi, Iuri
Moscardi, Gabriele Pedullà, Michael Reynolds, Paolo Repetti, Brian Robert Moore, Matteo
Nucci, Paolo Pecere, Carmen Pellegrino, Clara Ramazzotti, Eugenio Refini, Olivia Sears, Aurora
Tamigio, Alessia Valfredini, Vincenzo Trione, Carlo Vecce, Nicoletta Verna, Marco Vigevani.
FULL PROGRAM HERE
- TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2025
Italian Cultural Institute
(686 Park Ave, New York, NY 10065)
10:30 a.m.
Welcome and opening
Fabio Finotti (Director of the Italian Cultural Institute NY)
Maria Ida Gaeta (Curator of the Festival)
11:00 a.m.
Talks by:
Donatella Di Pietrantonio – The Muddy Heel
Nicoletta Verna – The Shadow of History
Chair: Fabio Finotti (Director of the Italian Cultural Institute NY)
12:30 p.m. Lunch break
4:00 p.m.
Talks by:
Matteo Nucci – Memory and Oblivion in Literary Creation
Vincenzo Trione – De Chirico, Calvino, and the Cities of Silence. Painting, Writing, Vision
Chairs: Monica Calabritto (Hunter College, Cuny) and Eugenio Refini (New York University)
6:00 p.m.
Io, Anna Dostoevskaja
Theater readings by and with Maddalena Maggi.
- WEDNESDAY JANUARY 15, 2025
Fordham University McNally Auditorium
(Fordham Gabelli Business School – 140 West 62nd Street, New York, NY 10023
ROUNDTABLE
10:30 a.m.
From Italian Language to the World: Journey to the USA
in collaboration with Turin’s “Salone Internazionale del Libro”
Talks by:
Andrea Bajani (author and Professor at Rice University), Brian Robert Moore (Italian-English translator), Marco Vigevani (Italian Literary Agency)
Chairs: Ilide Carmignani (translator and curator of From the Italian Language to the World)- and Lorenza Honorati (Rights Center coordinator)
11:30 a.m.
Traveling books. Dynamics of the Publishing Market between Italy and the United States
Talks by:
Alessandro Cassin (Centro Primo Levi), Barbara Epler (editor New Directions), Nicholas During (publicist of the New York Review of Books), Michael Reynolds (editorial manager of Europa Editions), Paolo Repetti (editorial manager of Einaudi Stile Libero), Olivia Sears (founder and Director of the San Francisco Center for the Art of Translation)
Chairs: Luca Briasco (editorial manager minimum fax) and Andrea Capra (Princeton University)
12:30 p.m. Lunch break
2:30 p.m.
Talks by:
Andrea Bajani – Italy, Texas
Gabriele Pedullà – Memory, Invention, Misdirection
Chairs: Chiara Benetollo (Petey Greene Program) e Iuri Moscardi (Fordham University)
4:30 p.m.
Talks by:
Emanuela Anechoum – We all Had to Leave
Leonardo Colombati – In the Other’s Shoes
Aurora Tamigio – From Me to We: Beyond Autobiography, Women’s Stories as a Collective Story
Chairs: Alessia Valfredini (Fordham University) and Clara Ramazzotti (City College, Cuny)
6:00 p.m.
Nostalgia for Impossible Things
A sonic ritual by poet Mariangela Gualtieri
with the participation of: Natasha D. Trethewey and Olivia Sears
- THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 2025
Rizzoli Bookstore
(1133 Broadway, New York, NY 10010)
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 committee of the Strega Prize)
Chairs: Michael Reynolds (editorial manager of Europa Editions) with Clara Ramazzotti (City College, Cuny)
With the participation of: Emanuela Anechoum (Mastercard debut prize), Donatella Di Pietrantonio (Strega Prize, Campiello Prize), Aurora Tamigio (Bancarella Prize, John Fante Opera Prima Prize), Vincenzo Trione (Viareggio Prize)
12:00 p.m.
The Bridge Book Award
Introducing the winners of the 2024 edition, and announcing the 2025 Italian candidacies
We are proud to present the two Italian prize winners: Carmen Pellegrino (Come la luce, La Nave di Teseo), and Carlo Vecce (Il sorriso di Caterina. La madre di Leonardo, Giunti editore); and the two American winners: Aaron Hamburger (Hotel Cuba, Harper perennials (Harper Collins publisher), and Millicent Marcus (Italian Film in the Present Tense, Toronto University Press).
Chairs: Fabio Finotti (Director of the Italian Cultural Institute NY) and Maria Ida Gaeta (Curator of the Festival)
With the participation of: Maria Gliozzi (co-organizer of the award), Anthony Tamburri (Director of the Calandra Institute), Maria Letizia Rossi (Federazione Unitaria Italiana Scrittori), and the representatives of American Academy, Centro Studi Americani, Civitella Ranieri Foundation.
1:00 p.m. Lunch break
4:00 p.m.
Talks by:
Michael Frank – Between America and 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 of the Italian Cultural Institute NY)
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