Presentation of the 4 Winning Books of
the 10th Edition of The Bridge Book Award
5:30 PM – Opening Greetings
Claudio Pagliara, Director of the Italian Cultural Institute, New York
5:45 PM – Introduction
Maria Ida Gaeta, Founder and Director of The Bridge Book Award
6:00 PM
Julia Phillips, winner in American Fiction for Bear (Hogarth Press / Random House Publishing Group), in conversation with Noreen Tomassi (former Director of the Center for Fiction, New York)
Nicoletta Verna, winner in Italian Fiction for I Giorni di Vetro (Einaudi Stile Libero), in conversation with Eugenio Refini (New York University)
Alexander Starr (editor), representing Aaron Robertson, winner in American Non-Fiction for The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), in conversation with Luca Briasco (Editorial Director, minimum fax edition)
Anthony Tamburri (Calandra Institute), presenting Natura vicina e lontana. Umanesimo e ambiente dagli antichi greci all’intelligenza artificiale (La Nave di Teseo) by Giulio Ferroni, winner in Italian Non-Fiction
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