Donato Carrisi is currently Italy's best-selling thriller writer .... Illustrator and author of Pinocchio prima di Pinoc
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Project and organization by AIE - Italian Publishers Association Project Manager: Fabio Del Giudice; Executive Project Manager: Paola Seghi in collaboration with Ex Libris Comunicazione Italian Pavilion supported by Italian Trade Agency Pavilion design Dama Studio Publications graphical project FASI Comunicazione Eventi Bookshop managed by Cicer Abu Dhabi Press office Twister Communications Middle East
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INTRODUCTION Italy’s participation as Guest of Honor at the 16th Abu Dhabi International Book Fairpromoted by the Italian Ministries of Foreign Affairs and the International Cooperation, Economic Development and Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism; the Embassy of Italy to the United Arab Emirates, the Italian Trade Agency, the Center for the Book and Reading and the AIE - Italian Publishers Association, which was in charge of the whole project and organization - takes visitors and readers of the United Arab Emirates on a journey into Italian Genius and the different areas in which Italian imagination and creativity have excelled over the centuries, leaving an indelible, admired, shared and often imitated mark throughout the world. In this immersion into the renaissance - and encyclopedic - vision of Italy’s legacy, the books and authors at the heart of the cultural program make up the compass that guides visitors in their exploration of Italian excellence. Playing off and intersecting with one another, they represent the eclectic nature of Italian literature, children’s fiction, poetry, illustrations and contemporary non-fiction. Each of the protagonists of Italian Genius, in their own style, bring to life a mosaic of stories, faces and atmospheres through individual reflections, dialogues and images. The game of mirrors between Italy’s traditions and its future horizons that make up this cultural program spans genre fiction, history, contaminations with the visual arts, a neorealistic gaze on society, focuses on children’s literature and examinations of the evolution of poetry in the 21st century. One of the goals of Italy’s participation is to reinforce economic and political relations between two countries that years ago began a fruitful exchange and collaboration. To this end, the professional program offers diverse examinations of the fundamental characteristics of Italian and Emirate publishing, the complexity and prospects of the ties between the Arab and Western worlds, and how the literary industry has evolved through globalization, multimediality and new technologies. The Italian Genius pavilion opens a door to the peninsula’s cultural scene: a road of discovery accompanied by the illustrations of Alessandro Sanna and the screenings of videos and other visual documents; a collective chorus that joins the voices of the protagonists, to explore the excellence of Made in Italy.
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Throughout the pavilion, visitors can acquire contemporary books in Italian (from 24 publishing companies), English and Arabic. And admire Illustrations for Children Eccellenze Italiane, an exhibit (promoted and organized by BolognaFiere, Bologna Children’s Book Fair and the Italian Cultural Institute of Madrid, with support from the Emilia Romagna Region) of 18 works by world-renowned artists that include Beatrice Alemagna, Roberto Innocenti, Lorenzo Mattotti and Guido Scarabottolo. The Italian Genius pavilion is flanked by the Italian Business Area, reserved for B2B meetings between 16 participating Italian publishing companies and foreign industry professionals, along with an area that invites visitors to travel back in time to discover the ancient, prestigious volumes from the collection of the Angelica Library in Rome, in an exhibit of first printed editions, highly rare volumes from the mid-14th to the late 18th centuries, spanning astronomy, comparative theology and history. Last, but certainly not least, the Italian Genius in Food celebrates another form of artistry for which Italy is lauded the world over: its exceptional cuisine. The Show Kitchen will feature celebrated chefs who with their creations will pay homage to the gastronomic splendors of the Bel Paese.
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PROGRAM
Tuesday, April 26 8 PM Abu Dhabi Theatre
Quartetto di Venezia Concert Celebrating the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair Organized by Embassy of Italy to the United Arab Emirates In collaboration with the Tourism and Culture Authority of Abu Dhabi (TCA) With Andrea Vio (violin), Alberto Battiston (violin), Giancarlo Di Vacri (viola), Angelo Zanin (cello) The evening before the opening of the International Book Fair, Italy offers Abu Dhabi audiences an elegant preview concert: immortal pages from the classic Italian (Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi) and European (Ludwig Van Beethoven) repertoire, by one of the most highly esteemed string quartets in the world, the Quartetto di Venezia. (Free tickets can be reserved through the Embassy of Italy:
[email protected]).
Wednesday, April 27 11 AM Italian Pavilion
Inauguration of the Italian Pavilion and the Angelica Library Exhibit
12 PM Discussion Sofa, Hall 11
R/T Rome-Abu Dhabi: Two publishing worlds side by side Organized by AIE - Italian Publishers Association and Abu Dhabi International Book Fair With Alfieri Lorenzon (director, AIE-Italian Publishers Association), Federico Motta (president, AIE-Italian Publishers Association), Ali Al Shaali (CEO, Hud Hud Publishing)
Italy’s participation as the Guest of Honor Country at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair offers an occasion to compare the countries’ publishing markets, develop mutual skills and
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consolidate exchange. At this, the first of two professional events organized on publishing relations between Italy and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the heads of the Italian Publishers Association (AIE) and Hud Hud Publishing will present data on their respective markets; discuss new import-export opportunities, copyright, translations and markets trends; and offer new prospects for future collaborations. 5.15 PM Business Club Professional program
R/T Rome-Abu Dhabi: Fairs, festivals and reading promotion Organized by AIE - Italian Publishers Association and Abu Dhabi International Book Fair Moderator Shaikha Mohamed Almehairi (Head of Cultural Resources Centre, Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority) With Paolo Gualandris (Caffè letterario di Crema), Marco Zapparoli (marcos y marcos/Letteratura Rinnovabile)
It’s one thing to print books, quite another to reach audiences, meet habitual readers’ needs and pique the curiosity of new readers. The second event dedicated to publishing in the UAE and Italy looks at reading promotion: what is the right balance between public policies and private initiatives? How can festivals and literary cafes diffuse cultural passion and innovation? What roles can the web and new digital frontiers play? An in-depth overview of the literary landscape centered on books and readers. 6.15 PM and 8 PM Show Kitchen
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Italian Genius in Food: Chef Heinz Beck pays tribute to Umberto Eco
Internationally renowned chefs are cooking live to shine a spotlight on the Italian gastronomic excellence - truly unique in the world for its variety and diversity - and focus on some regional specialities. Three-star Michelin chef Heinz Beck (La Pergola, Roma) pays tribute to Umberto Eco.
8 PM Discussion Sofa, Hall 11
Storytelling and history writing With Valerio Massimo Manfredi
One unique aspect of Italian genius is its extraordinary breadth across history: this civilization spanning 30 centuries of extraordinary events and immortal works is the foundation of Western culture. So it is hardly surprising that reality and invention are so intrinsically linked in Italy’s historical identity- in literature and beyond. Valerio Massimo Manfredi uses his inimitable alchemy of facts and legends to explain how.
Thursday, April 28 10.15 AM Business Club Professional program
6 PM Business Club Professional program
The great beauty of books: Treasures of the Angelica Library With Flavia Cristiano (director, Center for the Book and Reading), Romano Montroni (president, Center for the Book and Reading) and Fiammetta Terlizzi (director, Angelica Library)
While a book’s content is often a masterpiece, its presentation can be a work of art. The first of two events dedicated to the “great beauty” of prestigious book editions looks at 11 works displayed in the Italian Genius Pavilion and preserved in one of Europe’s oldest libraries, the Biblioteca Angelica in Rome. Founded in 1604, the library houses a priceless archive of over 200,000 volumes (roughly half of which were published prior to the 20th century). This event is also an occasion to discuss Italy’s book heritage and public libraries. The great beauty of books: From illuminated Renaissance manuscripts to Made in Italy With Maria Luisa Borsarelli (International Rights Manager, De Agostini Libri) and Lucia Panini (Managing Director, Panini)
The “great beauty” of printed books carries on, and continues to innovate, even in the digital era. The second event on illustrated and prestigious books hones in on two interesting ventures
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in Italian publishing: Franco Panini Editore’s La Biblioteca Impossibile series (facsimile editions of illuminated Renaissance manuscripts) and new illustrated books by De Agostini Libri, on outstanding Made in Italy creations. 6.30 PM Discussion Sofa, Hall 11
8 PM Show Kitchen
Italians in the mirror: How a country tells its own story Conversation with Nicola Lagioia and Paolo Di Paolo
Among the leading figures of the Italian literary new wave, Nicola Lagioia and Paolo Di Paolo are also impassioned commentators on their society and its cultural landscape. They have been tasked with introducing the theme of Italian Genius in literature, speaking on the vices and virtues, marvels and mediocrities, attitudes and emotions of Italian society in the new millennium - and its narrators. An introductory snapshot of Italian genius. Italian Genius in Food: The Ancient Roman Cuisine Chef Francesco Guarracino (Roberto’s, Abu Dhabi) inspired by Valerio Massimo Manfredi Books
Internationally renowned chefs are cooking live to shine a spotlight on the Italian gastronomic excellence - truly unique in the world for its variety and diversity - and focus on some regional specialities. Chef Francesco Guarracino (Roberto’s, Abu Dhabi) offers a culinary journey back in time to discover Ancient Roman recipes, following Valerio Massimo Manfredi’s suggestions.
Friday, April 29 5.15 PM Business Club Professional program
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Italian Genius 2016: Readers of the future, books of the future With Elena Pasoli (Group Product Manager, BolognaFiere Bologna Children’s Book Fair) and Raffaella Riva (Foreign Rights Agent, Atlantyca)
Children’s books are one of the strongest and most innovative sectors of Italian publishing, as well as one of the sectors generating the most interest from readers and the biggest growth in acquisitions (in Italy and abroad). The speakers represent two diverse yet highly dynamic sectors at the forefront of the transmedia evolutions in contemporary storytelling (TV series, video games, cartoons, the internet). Milan-based Atlantyca produces, licenses and acquires works with characters beloved to children throughout the world (such as Geronimo Stilton); the Bologna Children’s Book Fair is the foremost international event for the buying and selling children’s book rights. 6.30 PM Discussion Sofa, Hall 11
Giallo! Current events and fiction, books and television in Italian thrillers With Donato Carrisi
7.15 PM Business Club Professional program
Italian Genius 2016: The new technological frontiers of textbook publishing With Sam Habibi Minelli (Senior Project Manager, GruppoMeta) and Fabio Ferri (Head of Multimedia, Mondadori Education)
Thanks to his skill for creating perfectly impeccable mechanisms, Donato Carrisi is currently Italy’s best-selling thriller writer abroad. But what challenges does a crime fiction author face today? What possibilities and traps lay hidden within a society where the intersection of crime and the media grows wider and wider? A lesson on thrillers - or rather, the giallo - with the author of such hits as The Whisperer (Il suggeritore, over one million copies sold) and the recent La ragazza nella nebbia (lit. “The Girl in the Fog”).
Of the many publishing sectors to undergo the digital revolution, one that is particularly buzzing is textbooks: the Internet and tablet computers offer new challenges and opportunities for producing and distributing educational texts. Speakers from Mondadori
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Education and GruppoMeta present some of the sector’s most significant changes in Italy, including the iSLe (Intelligent Semantic Liquid Edubook) platform, created to develop and innovate the ebook model for mobile, web and offline education.
Saturday, April 30 11 AM Discussion Sofa, Hall 11
Europe’s Muslim roots Organized by the Caffè Letterario di Crema With Franco Cardini
11.30 AM Show Kitchen
Italian Genius in Food Region: Sicily Chef Andrea Mugavero (Roberto’s, Dubai) inspired by Andrea Camilleri
While Europe’s Christian roots are well known, Islam’s role in shaping the continent’s identity is usually undervalued. One of Italy’s leading experts on Medieval history, the scholar of relations between Islam and the West Franco Cardini looks at a history that dates back over a millennium, whose traces still exist today, not only in regions of direct Muslim influence (Sicily, Spain, the Balkans) but also in the way in which literature, philosophy, science and education developed across the entire continent.
Internationally renowned chefs are cooking live to shine a spotlight on the Italian gastronomic excellence - truly unique in the world for its variety and diversity - and focus on some regional specialities. On the trail of Sicilian recipes by Andrea Camilleri, chef Andrea Mugavero (Roberto’s, Dubai) brings the flavours of Sicily to the Fair. 4.30 PM Show Kitchen
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Italian Genius in Food Region: Veneto Chef Maurizio Lazzarin (Casa mia, Dubai) inspired by Andrea Zanzotto
Internationally renowned chefs are cooking live to shine a spotlight on the Italian gastronomic excellence - truly unique in the world for its variety and diversity - and focus on some regional specialities. Chef Maurizio Lazzarin (Casa mia, Dubai) draws inspiration from Venetian poet Andrea Zanzotto to offer traditional dishes from his region. 5.30 PM Discussion sofa, Hall 11
The Italy of tomorrow: Fantasy, illustration and fiction for young adults Conversation with Beatrice Masini and Licia Troisi
6.30 PM Discussion Sofa, Hall 11
Sardinian genius: Mediterranean stories With Michela Murgia
7.30 PM Ibn Rushed Forum, Hall 12
From page to screen: The importance of character With Antonio Manzini Presented by Liborio Stellino
In reference to data on Italians’ reading habits, January 2016 saw headlines such as: “Adolescents read the most in Italy” and “Italy’s most avid readers are 15 to 17.” Hence this conversation on young adults, between Italy’s best-selling fantasy writer internationally, Licia Troisi; editor and translator of Harry Potter novels, Beatrice Masini.
One of Italy’s most characteristic and literally most isolated regions, Sardinia is a cultural crossroads and a land proudly alien to the rest of the country - for its culture, traditions, and even distance (unlike Sicily, no bridge could ever connect it to the mainland). A versatile figure of her region’s recently revitalized literary landscape, Michela Murgia shares the uniqueness of her island, itself a symbol of the internal diversity in the inimitable recipe for Italian genius.
Antonio Manzini is not simply a writer: before inventing deputy police chief Rocco Schiavone, the celebrated protagonist of four novels published from 2013 to 2015, he played Inspector Tucci
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in the TV series Linda e il brigadiere and wrote the screenplays to Alex Infascelli’s The Vanity Serum and Gabriele Salvatores’ As God Commands. Which makes him the perfect guide for this journey into “on-paper” and onscreen characters: how to create them, give them psychological depth, and breathe life into them. 8.30 PM Ibn Rushed Forum, Hall 12
Verses in the mirror: Young contemporary poetry in Italy Organized by Caffè Letterario di Crema With Giorgio Ghiotti
Barely over 20, Giorgio Ghiotti has already published an anthology of short stories and one of poetry, and a book of interviews with contemporary Italian female authors and poets (Mesdemoiselles. Le nuove signore della scrittura, Perrone, 2016, lit. “Mesdemoiselles: The New Women Writers”). A young, fresh voice attesting to the generational change currently underway even in a classic literary form such as poetry.
Sunday, May 1 9.30 AM Show Kitchen
Italian Genius in Food: Pizza Vincenzo La Vecchia, Pizza World Champion 2015 (Eataly, Dubai)
Internationally renowned chefs are cooking live to shine a spotlight on the Italian gastronomic excellence - truly unique in the world for its variety and diversity - and focus on some regional specialities. Today the stage is all set for Pizza, an everlasting classic of Italian cuisine, interpreted by a true Pizza champion: chef Vincenzo La Vecchia (Eataly, Dubai). 4.30 PM Show Kitchen
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Italian Genius in Food Region: Lombardia Chef Wladimiro Gadioli (Saadiyat Beach Club, Abu Dhabi) inspired by Carlo Emilio Gadda
Internationally renowned chefs are cooking live to shine a spotlight on the Italian gastronomic excellence - truly unique in the world for its variety and diversity - and focus on some regional specialities. Following Milanese writer Carlo Emilio Gadda’s footsteps, chef Wladimiro Gadioli (Saadiyat Beach Club, Abu Dhabi) revisits some of Lombard flavours. 6 PM Illustrator’s Corner
The Adventures of Pinocchio: Live painting of a marionette With Alessandro Sanna
6 PM Ibn Rushed Forum, Hall 12
The infinite paths of translation Organized by the Caffè Letterario di Crema With Chiara Valerio and Ali Al Shaali
Pinocchio turned 135 this year. One of the most famous and beloved characters of world literature, borne of the imagination of Carlo Collodi, Pinocchio first appeared in 1881, in the Giornale dei ragazzi. Illustrator and author of Pinocchio prima di Pinocchio (Orecchio Acerbo, 2015, lit. “Pinocchio Before Pinocchio”), Alessandro Sanna brings the renowned wooden marionette back to life in a surprising live painting performance. The artistic alchemy of tradition and modernity is accompanied by music and designs created on an iPad and projected onto the big screen.
Sometimes, things get lost in the translation from one language to another, as film director Sofia Coppola reminded us in Lost in Translation. Other times, something is gained. Between navigating invention, being faithful to an original text, joining two different cultures and adapting to technological innovations (from the Internet to ebooks), literary translations are a continuous forging of new paths. Tasked with telling their turning points and prospects are Chiara Valerio, author, editor and translator of Virginia Woolf, and Ali Al Shaali, member of the Emirates Writers Union, Senior Director of the Publishing and Translation Department at the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation and author of three collections of poetry.
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7 PM Ibn Rushed Forum, Hall 12
Saints, navigators and... poets? Italian poetry of and in the third millennium With Valerio Magrelli
8 PM Discussion sofa, Hall 11
Based on true stories: When history inspires fiction With Luigi Guarnieri
Valerio Magrelli’s recent anthology, Millennium Poetry, includes the work of seminal poets such as Dante, Petrarca, Carducci, Pascoli and Leopardi. If the “second” millennium was extraordinary, what can be said about the third, which has just begun? Is Italy still a nation of poets, even in the era of Facebook and whatsapp? This lectio examines the wonders of the past alongside the challenges of the present.
Be it Lombroso, Vermeer or Brahms, there’s always a historical figure (or fact) at the heart of Luigi Guarnieri’s books. Yet in just a few pages, reality inevitably entwines with fiction in a seductive game of mirrors. The boundaries between what actually happened and what we are told are blurred. And while history takes on the familiar face of a character, the stories lead us to rediscover something about our past.
Monday, May 2 9.30 AM Show Kitchen
Italian Genius in Food Region: Veneto Chef Paolo Bellamio (Trattoria Toscana, Dubai)
Internationally renowned chefs are cooking live to shine a spotlight on the Italian gastronomic excellence - truly unique in the world for its variety and diversity - and focus on some regional specialities. Chef Paolo Bellamio (Trattoria Toscana, Dubai) offers today a taste of typical Venetian dishes.
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5.30 PM Discussion Sofa, Hall 11
Romagna in grand style: the epics in narrative literature Organized by Abu Dhabi International Book Fair With Cristiano Cavina
6.15 PM Show Kitchen
Italian Genius in Food: Pizza Chef Fortunato Ostacolo (Lounge Cafè Italiano, Dubai)
6.30 PM Discussion sofa, Hall 11
On the threshold of a new renaissance: The classics as a path towards the future of art Conversation with Melania Mazzucco and Vincenzo Trione
A land teeming with creativity, passion, culture and popular tradition, Romagna is captured in the books of Cristiano Cavina with an epic freshness and intensity that conquers readers of all ages. And when he talks about classic writers - such as Emilio Salgari, perhaps the most translated Italian author in the Arab world - Cavina unites the power of great oral tradition with the epos of adventures ready available to all.
Internationally renowned chefs are cooking live to shine a spotlight on the Italian gastronomic excellence - truly unique in the world for its variety and diversity - and focus on some regional specialities. Today the stage is all set for Pizza, an everlasting classic of Italian cuisine, interpreted by chef Fortunato Ostacolo (Lounge Cafè Italiano, Dubai).
Symbolically speaking, this event could just as well take place in Venice, home to Tintoretto, the great painter about whom Melania Mazzucco writes, and where Vincenzo Trione curated the Italian Pavilion of the 2015 Biennale. A symbol of Italy’s capacity to transform even everyday places into art, Venice is the ideal springboard for a reflection on the evolution of Italian genius. We all agree on the glories of the past, but is it possible today - perhaps using those glories as inspiration - to begin a new renaissance?
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Tuesday, May 3 9.30 AM Show Kitchen
Italian Genius in Food Region: Umbria Chef Daniele Capobianco (Positano, Dubai)
Internationally renowned chefs are cooking live to shine a spotlight on the Italian gastronomic excellence - truly unique in the world for its variety and diversity - and focus on some regional specialities. The flavours of Central Italy come to the Fair thanks to chef Daniele Capobianco (Positano, Dubai) preparing typical recipes from Umbria. 8 PM Show Kitchen
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Italian Genius in Food: Itchefs Chef Andrea Falcone (Bice, Dubai)
Internationally renowned chefs are cooking live to shine a spotlight on the Italian gastronomic excellence - truly unique in the world for its variety and diversity - and focus on some regional specialities. The stage is set for chef Andrea Falcone (Bice, Dubai) and the grand finale with Italian cuisine abroad.
BIOGRAPHIES Emirati poet, publisher of Hud Hud Publishing and engineer Ali Al Shaali is an active member of the Emirates Writers Union. He has published three anthologies of poetry: A Bee and a Rababa, Faces and Weary Others and Earth Has But One Soul. He was CEO of the Dubai International Poetry Festival and has participated in many poetry soirees and literary events. As Senior Director of the Publishing and Translation Department at the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation, he was mandated, in March 2008, to contribute to the Foundation’s strategy to firmly establish the foundation on the region’s cultural scene. Al Shaali is a graduate of the Mohamed Bin Rashed Programme for Leadership Development. His remarkable business development acumen and wide range of technical and managerial experience distinguish him as one of the UAE’s notable young leaders. He holds a BSc in Civil Engineering from UAE University and a Master’s Certificate in Project Management accredited by George Washington University. hudhuduae.com A librarian and educator, Shaikha Mohamed Almehairi holds a BA in English Language and Literature and a Masters in Educational Leadership. She worked as a teacher for the Ministry of Education in Abu Dhabi before moving to Zayed University to work as a librarian and instructor. In 2011 she became the head of public libraries in the Authority of Tourism and Culture, and currently heads the Cultural Resources Center in the Culture Sector of the same organization. Throughout her career, Almehairi has been an advocate of reading and children’s literature. She has trained teachers and librarians through the Ministry of Education and Abu Dhabi Education Council for many years, on strategies of reading, attracting children to books and parental involvement in reading. She has worked with young authors to publish their books. www.tcaabudhabi.ae
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Heinz Beck is Executive Chef at La Pergola in the Hotel Cavalieri, where he achieved the 3 Michelin stars award. In 2000 he received the “Golden Medal of the Artists Foyer” from La Sapienza Rome University. In 2009 his latest venture Apsley’s opened at the Lanesborough Hotel in London gaining its first Michelin star in 2010. Heinz Beck’s cuisine is considered a blend of his early training of German discipline with one of the most sensitive and innovative interpretations of the nuances of Italian cuisine. www.romecavalieri.it
Hailing from a city close to Padua, Paolo Bellamio has always had a penchant cooking. Chef Paolo came to Dubai in 2010 to see this part of the world as well as engage with the growing culinary scene. In 2012, an exciting offer in Dubai lured Chef Paolo back to the emirate, where he became Head Chef at Rosso, and received the Best Italian Restaurant award from BBC Good Food Middle East. In 2015 he took post as Head Chef in the bustling Madinat Jumeirah. In his new role, Chef Paolo creates authentic Italian dishes for the entire family: ‘food to love’. www.jumeirah.com
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An International Rights Manager for De Agostini Libri for 20 years, Maria Luisa Borsarelli manages licenses and co-edition sales for children’s and adult illustrated books, and develops new businesses and sales channels on the international markets for the De Agostini and Whitestar brands. She graduated in Modern Languages and Literature from Milan’s Catholic University of the Sacred Heart and speaks English and French fluently. www.deagostini.it
Daniele Capobianco was born in Ozieri, Sardinia, and at the age of four he moved to Umbria, a region known for many famous Italian delicacies. Following his graduation, he moved to Denmark, and then to Oman, before relocating to Dubai, where he worked in the most exquisite upscale restaurants and cooperated with Michelin Star chefs. He is currently working with the team at JW Marriott Marquis Dubai as Chef de cuisine at Positano. www.jwmarriottmarquisdubailife.com
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Franco Cardini teaches Medieval History at the University of Florence and as a journalist contributes to the cultural pages of diverse daily newspapers. A professor emeritus at the Italian Institute of Human and Social Sciences at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, he has dedicated half a century to crusades, pilgrimages and relations between Christian Europe and Islam, and has spent long periods of time studying and teaching abroad. He is a member of the Cinecittà and RAI boards of directors.
Italy’s best-selling thriller writer abroad, Donato Carrisi (Martina Franca, 1973) studied law and criminology. He made his literary debut with The Whisperer (2011), winner of the Bancarella Prize and a best seller in Italy, Germany, Spain, the US and UK, and France (where he won the SNCF Crime Fiction Prize and the Prix des lecteurs du Livre de poche). Publically acclaimed by thriller masters such as Michael Connelly and Ken Follett, The Whisperer sold over one million copies worldwide and was followed by more bestsellers, all published domestically by Longanesi: The Lost Girls of Rome (2013), The Vanished Ones (2014), Il cacciatore del buio (2014, lit. “The Hunter of Darkness”) and his latest, La ragazza nella nebbia (2015, lit. “The Girl in the Fog”), about a gruesome murder set against the media’s growing influence on and interference in public opinion. www.donatocarrisi.it
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Cristiano Cavina (Casola Valsenio, 1974) grew up with his mother and grandparents in a “shabby flat” in council housing. Listening to stories in bars, he developed a great passion for tales, and books wound up being his second home. Cavina does not have to travel a long way for inspiration. He has enjoyed traversing Europe and America a lot, but his adventures take place every day, in his hometown. His major literary awards include the Tondelli Award, Castiglioncello Award, Vigevano Award, Francesco Serantini Award, and he was shortlisted for the 2009 Strega Prize. The harshest literary critics consider him one of the best Italian writers of the new generation. He bakes delicious pizzas in his family’s restaurant and plays with his son Giovanni.
Flavia Cristiano (Florence) lives and works in Rome, where she directs the Center for the Book and Reading. After studying modern literature, she began her career at the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. She was director of the Public Library of Modern and Contemporary History and the Alessandrina University Library in Rome, and directed the Servizio II office (Conservation and Technology) of the Department of Archives and Libraries. She has taught at universities and authored articles and essays on the history of the book, including L’antiquariato librario in Italia: vicende, protagonisti, cataloghi (Gela editrice, 1986, lit. “Antique Books in Italy: Events, Protagonists, Catalogues”). www.cepell.it
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Shortlisted at age 20 for the Calvino Prize for emerging, unpublished authors [for his short story collection Nuovi cieli, nuove carte (lit. “New Skies, New Cards”), subsequently published by Empirìa], Paolo Di Paolo (Rome, 1983) belongs to the new wave of young Italian writers of the 21st century. A contributor to the culture pages of Italy’s leading newspapers, he blends interviews with stories, analysis with homage, reality with invention, to depict Italy through the experiences of other Italians, such as Piero Gobetti, co-protagonist of the novel Mandami tanta vita (Feltrinelli, 2013, Strega Prize finalist, lit. “Send Me Lots of Life”), and Indro Montanelli (Tutte le speranze. Montanelli raccontato da chi non c’era, Rizzoli, 2014, lit. “All the Hope: Montanelli Recounted By Those Who Weren’t There”). A versatile author, in 2015 Di Paolo published his first theatre play, Istruzioni per non morire in pace (Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, lit. “Instructions for Not Dying in Peace”), and in 2016 returned to bookstores with his latest novel, Una storia quasi solo d’amore (Feltrinelli, lit. “A Story of Almost Only Love”). www.paolodipaolo.it
Andrea Falcone joined in 2002 the Trattoria Pontevecchio in Florence and after five years moved to London, where he gained valuable experience working for Caldesi group. Later Andrea moved to Dubai and joined Hilton Worldwide as a Bice ristorante 1926 Sous Chef. He was awarded with the Best Italian prize in 2012 and in 2014 he started as Italian Head Chef for Award winning Roberto’s restaurant and Lounge in DIFC. In 2015 Andrea came back to Hilton Dubai Jumeirah as Head Chef of Bice Ristorante 1926. www3.hilton.com
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After obtaining a PhD in Humanities, Fabio Ferri worked as Teacher’s Assistant at the University of Milan in the Faculty of Cultural Heritage. In 2005, he began his adventures in publishing and has since then worked for different companies, with a preference for art and educational books. At present, he is Head of Multimedia in the educational department of Mondadori, Italy’s leading publishing company. www.mondadorieducation.it
Wladimiro Gadioli began his professional career with apprenticeships in world-renowned Michelin star restaurants in Italy. After three years in Delhi, India, Chef Wladimiro relocated to the UAE in 2009, where he started as Chef De Cuisine at Jumeirah Beach Hotel’s Carnevale restaurant. The following year, he became Consultant Executive Sous Chef at Cipriani Yacht Club in Yas Island. Chef Wladimiro will now be overseeing the menus for the whole of Saadiyat Beach Club’s sensational restaurants, bringing his creative flair and exquisite taste to Abu Dhabi. www.saadiyatbeachclub.ae
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Giorgio Ghiotti (Rome, 1994) studies Literature at the Sapienza University of Rome. He made his fiction debut with the short story collection Dio giocava a pallone (lit. “God Played Football”, nottetempo 2013), and in poetry with Estinzione dell’uomo bambino (“The Extinction of the ManChild,” Perrone, 2015). He has also published a collection of interviews with Italy’s leading contemporary female writers and poets, entitled Mesdemoiselles. Le nuove signore della scrittura (“Mesdemoiselles: The New Women Writers”, Perrone, 2016). He contributes to the literary publications Nuovi Argomenti, Nazione Indiana and Orlando esplorazioni and writes about culture for l’Unità.
Paolo Gualandris (1958) is editor-in-chief of the daily paper La Provincia di Cremona e Crema and editor the weekly literary insert. He is the former editor-in-chief of the monthly university and research newspaper Campus, published by Class Editori. For the past 18 years he has organized Caffè letterario di Crema, a cultural association that organizes monthly meetings that are open to the city, with Italian and foreign writers, and meetings with high school students. He was a member of the steering committee of the literary festival Le Corde dell’Anima in Cremona. www.laprovinciacr.it
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Cesare Lombroso was a highly controversial Italian doctor, anthropologist and criminologist; Han Van Meegeren, an infamous art forger; eminent 19th century artists-composers Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck were involved in a “strange love story”; Adolf Hitler, alas, needs no introductions. What do these historic figures have in common? As protagonists of the books of Luigi Guarnieri - respectively in L’atlante criminale. Vita scriteriata di Cesare Lombroso (lit. “Criminal Atlas: The Reckless Life of Cesare Lombroso”), Mondadori, 2000; La doppia vita di Vermeer (lit. “The Double Life of Vermeer”), Mondadori, 2004; Una strana storia d’amore (lit. “A Strange Love Story”), Rizzoli, 2010; and Il sosia di Hitler (lit. “Hitler’s Double”), Mondadori, 2014 - they are all pieces of a narrative mosaic in which the biographies and lives of real people entwine with the artifices of dramatic reinvention. Born in Catanzaro in 1962, Guarnieri has also written radio and theatre plays. His work has been translated in diverse languages and garnered numerous prizes.
Francesco Guarracino has worked at some of Italy’s most prestigious restaurants and has held senior leadership positions as Executive Chef in Italy, Spain, England and now in the UAE. In 2007 he moved to the UK and joined the Italian restaurant group Piccolino first and later the San Carlo Group. In order to raise the hospitality bar in the UAE and to ensure authenticity, he has brought over 10 Italian chefs from the Federazione Italiana Cuochi. Looking for new adventures Chef Francesco opened Roberto’s Abu Dhabi restaurant. www.robertos.ae
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Sam Habibi Minelli is an innovation specialist in the digital publishing sector and training and educational domains. He managed market and R&D technological projects for the ICT enterprise Gruppometa.it, Alinari Archives and the Il Sole 24 Ore financial magazine. He trained schoolteachers during the iSLe project in Italian schools. He is the international sales manager for Ubidictionary.com, a collection and consultation of dictionaries, grammar and exercise books in digital format integrated with support tools for professional translating and lexicon. www.gruppometa.it
Vincenzo La Vecchia won the Best Pizza in the UAE Championship 2015 (for the 2nd year in a row) and also the Best Pizza in the World Championship in 2015. He works as a pizza Chef at Eataly restaurant in Dubai. www.eataly.ae
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On July 2, 2015, Nicola Lagioia beat out fierce competition (including Elena Ferrante’s latest best seller) to win the Strega Prize, Italy’s top literary honors, for his novel La ferocia (Einaudi, lit. “Ferocity”). Born in Bari in 1973, Lagioia is an eclectic and passionate figure of the Italian cultural scene, as a writer, literary editor (of Nichel, the Italian literature strand of the minimum fax publishing company), film critic (he is on the selection committee of the Venice Film Festival), radio presenter (as co-host of the cultural press review on RAI Radio 3), music aficionado (from his youthful passion for drumming to his love of rock’n’roll) and animator of lively discussions across print and social network media. He embodies, to all effects, the spirit of the humanist Renaissance man that is making a comeback in the 21st-century.
Born in Germany as his parents used to have Ice Cream shops there, Maurizio Lazzarin’s passion was influenced by Central European and northern Italian cooking. Chef Maurizio works on old recipes, keeping their flavors with a more healthconscious use of ingredients. He is very keen on using original Italian products distributed by certified suppliers and, if available in Dubai, products which are DOC or Dogc. www.casamia-dubai.com
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Alfieri Lorenzon has been director of the Italian Publishers Association (AIE) since January 2008. He has devoted his entire career to publishing, starting at Padova University Press (CLEUP) in 1980 and later Touring Club Italiano, a leading Italian publishing company in the tourist guide and cartography sector, where he was first CEO and later managing director as of June 2003, before joining the AIE in July 2007 as co-director. His lifelong relationship with books has led to collaborations with Italy’s foremost publishers, including The Walt Disney Company Italia, McGraw-Hill Italia and Bruno Mondadori Editore. www.aie.it
The debut of Valerio Magrelli (Rome, 1957) on the Italian cultural scene - the collection of poems Ora serrata retinae (Feltrinelli, 1980) - established him as one of the most innovative and versatile voices of contemporary Italian literature. Magrelli is also an academic, critic, teacher, translator, culture writer for Italian newspapers and sporadic visitor of film sets [e.g. Lo sciamano di famiglia (Laterza, 2015, lit. “The Family Shaman”), which celebrates his friendship with Federico Fellini]. A prolific author and experimenter of new literary languages, Magrelli sustains his curious gaze on humanity’s past, present and future through sharp reflections on contemporary society (Il sessantotto realizzato da Mediaset, Einaudi, 2011, lit. “1968 Brought to You by Mediaset”) and an erudite passion for art history, culture and poetry, such as in the anthology Millennium Poetry (Il Mulino, 2015), among other writings. His latest book of poetry is Il sangue amaro (Einaudi, 2014, lit. “Bitter Blood”).
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Spanning more than four decades, the career of the professorwriter Valerio Massimo Manfredi has been dedicated to the beauty of art and history. From his celebrated Alexander Trilogy (published from 2001 to 2002) and recent adventures of Odysseus (Il mio nome è Nessuno, three volumes published by Mondadori from 2012 to 2014) to many individual novels (including L’ultima legione, Mondadori, 2002, adapted into the feature film The Last Legion starring Colin Firth and Ben Kingsley) and books on his archeological expeditions, Manfredi introduces readers to new perspectives on our past, or reveals curiosities and secrets of stories already known (as in Le meraviglie del mondo antico, Mondadori, 2014, on the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World). An internationally renowned and acclaimed author whose books have been translated in 60 territories, sold 12 million copies around the globe, and won numerous awards, Manfredi also contributes to print and television outlets. www.valeriomassimomanfredi.it One could say that Antonio Manzini has led two artistic lives. In the first, the author published two novels (Sangue marcio, Fazi, 2005, lit. “Bad Blood”; La giostra dei criceti, Einaudi, 2007, lit. “Hamster Wheel”) and wrote extensively for film, television and theatre. In his second life, he invented Rocco Schiavone, the irascible Roman deputy police chief transferred to Aosta who made his debut in Black Run (2015) - and has never looked back. Over the next two years, Schiavone appeared in three more novels [Adam’s Rib, 2016; Non è stagione (2015, lit. “Not the Right Season”)] and Era di Maggio (2015, lit. “It Happened in May”) and several stories (gathered in the collection Cinque indagini romane per Rocco Schiavone, 2016, lit. “Five Roman Investigations for Rocco Schiavone”), all published domestically by Sellerio, and quickly became an international hit. A TV series based on Schiavone went into production in 2016. Manzini’s latest book, Sull’orlo del precipizio (Sellerio, 2015, lit. “On the Edge of the Abyss”), is a dystopian instant novel inspired by recent upheavals in the Italian publishing industry. A new novel starring Rocco Schiavone will be published in July.
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A journalist, writer, editor (for publishers Fabbri, Rizzoli and Bompiani) and translator (of volumes 3-7 of the Harry Potter series), Beatrice Masini is one of the most esteemed and well-rounded figures of the Italian publishing industry. As a writer, she specializes in books for children and young adults, many of which have been translated internationally. Her most recent titles include Belle, astute e coraggiose (EL, lit. “Beautiful, Clever and Brave”), La cena del cuore. Tredici parole per Emily Dickinson (Rueballu, lit. “Dinner of the Heart: 13 Words for Emily Dickinson”), Maisie e il gemello di Mozart (Fabbri, lit. “Maisie and Mozart’s Double”) and Il viaggio della regina (Carthusia, lit. “The Queen’s Journey”), all published in 2015. Masini’s numerous prizes for children’s literature includes three Premio Andersen awards, and in 2013 she published her first adult fiction novel, Tentativi di botanica degli affetti (Bompiani, winner of the Campiello and Manzoni prizes, lit. “Attempts at Emotional Botany”), which she followed up in 2016 with I nomi che diamo alle cose (Bompiani, lit. “The Names We Give Things”). This year, Melania Mazzucco celebrates two decades of a literary career that began with Il bacio della Medusa (Baldini&Castoldi, 1996, lit. “Medusa’s Kiss”), establishing her one of the most esteemed voices of contemporary Italian literature. A Strega Prize finalist for both her debut novel and La camera di Baltus (Baldini&Castoldi, 1998, lit. “Balthus’ Room”), Mazzucco won the prestigious award for Vita: A Novel (2005), which also launched her international career. Subsequent novels include Un giorno perfetto (Rizzoli, 2005, adapted for the cinema by Ferzan Özpetek eponymously, as A Perfect Day), Limbo (Einaudi, 2012) and Sei come sei (Einaudi, 2013, lit. “You Are What You Are”). In 2008 she published the historic novel La lunga attesa dell’angelo (Rizzoli, lit. “The Angel’s Long Wait”) on Venetian painter Tintoretto, and his biography the following year (Jacomo Tintoretto e i suoi figli. Storia di una famiglia veneziana, Rizzoli, 2009, lit. “Jacomo Tintoretto and His Children: The Story of a Venetian Family”). Art was also at the heart of Il museo del mondo (Einaudi, 2014, lit. “Museum of the World”). Her books have been translated in more than 20 territories.
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After beginning his career in distribution, in 1962 Romano Montroni (Bologna) began working with the Feltrinelli Bookshops, which he directed until 2000. An adjunct professor of the Umberto Eco Print and Multimedia Publishing Master at the University of Bologna, he has taught masters and specialized courses at the Umberto and Elisabetta Mauri School for Booksellers since 2001, and is also a member of the organizing committee. In July 2005 he partnered with Coop to create the Libreria Coop chain of bookstores in diverse city and shopping centers. His published books include Vendere l’anima. Il mestiere del libraio (lit. “Selling the Soul: The Craft of the Bookseller”, Laterza, 2006), Librario per caso. Una vita tra autori e lettori (lit. “The Accidental Bookseller: A Life Among Authors and Readers”, Marsilio, 2010) and I libri ti cambiano la vita (lit. “Books Change Your Life”, Longanesi, 2012). He has presided over the Italian Center for the Book and Reading since 2014. He has selected and trained over 600 booksellers and inaugurated 705 bookstores. www.cepell.it
Hailing from three generations of publishers, Federico Motta (Milan, 1954) is chairman of the Italian Publishers Association (AIE), the trade association of publishers of books, magazines and digital publishing products that is part of the Confindustria group. Elected in September 2015 at the Assembly General Meeting in Milan, he returns to helm of the association after having previously led it from 1997 to 2009. He is the publisher of the Italian publishing company Forma Edizioni. He also served as chairman of the Federation of European Publishers (FEE-FEP) from 2008-2010 and of Sistema Cultura Italia, the federation of the Italian cultural industry, from 2007-2009. www.aie.it
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Andrea Mugavero is Executive Chef of Roberto’s, the highly successful Italian restaurant in Dubai. He was a pioneer of quality Italian Cuisine in Dubai and in the UAE: before he was the Chef of Bice in the Hilton Hotel, where he arrived after four years in Istanbul and two in Marbella (Spain), always with the Bice group. He was still young but had plenty of experience: from the first jobs in his native Sicily he went to Montecarlo, where he had the responsibility of the first brigades. www.robertos.ae
Deeply attached to her native lands, Michela Murgia (Cabras, Oristano) made her debut in 2006 with Il mondo deve sapere (ISBN), upon which director Paolo Virzì based his film Her Whole Life Ahead. Since then, Murgia’s eclectic literary path has included novels, blogs, travel guides (Viaggio in Sardegna, undici percorsi nell’isola che non si vede, Einaudi, 2008, lit. “Traveling to Sardinia: 11 Trips on the Unseen Island”), novellas (L’incontro, Einaudi, 2012, lit. “Encounter”), theological non-fiction (Ave Mary. E la chiesa inventò la donna, Einaudi, 2011, lit. “Ave Mary: And the Church Invented Women”) and even plays. In 2009 she published the novel Accabadora (Einaudi), winner of the Campiello, Dessì and SuperMondello awards. Her latest novel, Chirù (Einaudi, 2015), confirmed the Sardinian writer’s relevance on the national literary landscape, as well as her role as an avant-garde experimenter of new literary languages. www.michelamurgia.com
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Fortunato Ostacolo, aka Spino, has been working as a chef for over 20 years. After travelling through Australia, US, North Africa and Spain, for the past 9 years he has been managing a restaurant in Panarea (Eolie Islands, Italy), where he mixes his native Neapolitan style with the local Sicilian cuisine. In Dubai, Spino works as Executive Chef at Lounge Café Italiano since it first opened: he serves traditional Italian dishes and the best classic Neapolitan pizza in Dubai. www.loungecafeitaliano.com
Lucia Panini (Modena, 1969) is on the board of directors of Franco Cosimo Panini Editore. She inherited her passion for antique books from her father Franco Cosimo, the company’s founder, and entered the world of collectors and bibliophiles at a very young age. In 1991 she opened the Lucia Panini Antiquarian Bookshop, and attended the most important international fairs. From 1995 to 2000 she lived in London where, in glamorous Old Bond Street, she sold antique books while promoting extraordinary works of Italian publishing. At the publishing company she oversees facsimiles with great care. Thanks to her previous experience in this field, she heads the committee to find illuminating manuscripts to reproduce, thereby continuing her father’s dream of creating the Biblioteca Impossibile, a remarkable collection of publications dedicated to the most significant codices of the great noble houses of the Renaissance. www.francopanini.it
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Elena Pasoli (Bologna) studied Classic Literature at the University of Bologna and in 1982 began working as a publicist. In 1982, she joined the Special Events department of the BolognaFiere, where she worked until 2001, when she was appointed Project Manager of the Bologna Children’s Book Fair. She left BolognaFiere in 2006 to head the University of Bologna Foundation’s Communications unit until 2011. She later worked as a consultant with BolognaFiere and eventually rejoined the company in 2014 as Group Product Manager in the Culture Business Unit, whose main event is the Bologna Children’s Book Fair. www.bookfair.bolognafiere.it
Analytical precision and passion are the distinctive characteristics of the Quartetto di Venezia, inherited quality of two basic schools of quartet interpretation: the “Quartetto Italiano” under the guidance of Maestro Piero Farulli, and the Mid-European School of “Vegh Quartet”. In addition to annual appearances throughout Italy, the Quartetto di Venezia has toured extensively in Europe and the United States, along with Canada and South America. The repertoire of the Quartet of Venice is extremely rich and includes, apart from the most well-known ones, rarely performed works like the quartets of G.F. Malipiero. Pushed by the pleasure of playing together, the ensemble has collaborated with world artists of worldwide fame as Bruno Giuranna, “Borodin Quartet”, “Prazak Quartet”, Herbert Kefer “Artis Quartet”, Piero Farulli, Paul Szabo, Oscar Ghiglia, Danilo Rossi, Dieter Flury, Pietro De Maria.
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Raffaella Riva spent over 14 years handling sales and licensing for leading entertainment companies such as DreamWorks and Marvel. She currently works for the international transmedia company Atlantyca Entertainment, based in Milan. Founded in 2006 upon the worldwide publishing success of the celebrated children’s book series Geronimo Stilton, Atlantyca’s main mission is education and entertainment. The company is divided into four departments: animation, licensing, publishing and foreign rights. Riva sells translation rights Middle Eastern and North African countries for children’s and YA fiction titles and art books published by Piemme (Mondadori Group), De Agostini, Einaudi, Electa, 24 Ore Cultura and other important Italian and foreign publishing companies. She lives with her family in her native city of Milan. www.atlantyca.com
Born in 1975 in Nogara (Verona), a three-time winner of the Premio Andersen for children’s literature (in 2006 for Hai mai visto Mondrian?, Artebambini, lit. “Have You Seen Mondrian?”; in 2009 for Best Illustrator; and in 2014 for Fiume lento. Un viaggio lungo il Po, Rizzoli), Alessandro Sanna today divides his time among creating illustrated books, writing for newspapers and magazines and teaching (at the Fine Arts Academy of Bologna). His print illustrations quickly developed into a personal, highly evocative style in which images alone support a story’s structure, with no need for words. His “silent books” include Fiume lento, which was published in English as The River and garnered great reviews in the US from The New Yorker and Brain Pickings. www.alessandrosanna.com
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Liborio Stellino joins the diplomatic service in 1990 and is assigned to the Sub-Saharan Africa Desk in the Department of Political Affairs of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Deputy Head of Mission to the Embassy of Italy in Nicosia and later Chief of the Economic and Commercial Office of the Italian Embassy in Rabat, in 2001 he is appointed to the Unit for Relations with Parliament in the Cabinet of the Minister of Foreign Affairs (Rome). First Counselor and Chief of the Press Office at the Embassy of Italy in Moscow (2002) and Consul General of Italy in Boston (2006), back in Italy Stellino is Diplomatic Advisor to the Commissioner General for EXPO Milan 2015 and, as Minister Plenipotentiary, head of the Unit for Russian Federation, Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rome). He is currently Ambassador of Italy to the United Arab Emirates.
Fiammetta Terlizzi (Naples) lives and works in Rome, where she has directed the Angelica Library since 2009. She began her career at the Ministry of Culture as head of the Fondo Antico, coordinating numerous cataloguing projects about ancient books. Together with the Urbania Council Library and Alessandrina University Library in Rome, she collaborated on the conception and bibliographic recreation of Francesco Maria II della Rovere’s library. She has been a scientific consultant on several exhibitions and has also authored numerous publications, including Comete. Immagini e storia nei libri dell’Angelica (Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, 1986, lit.”Comets: Images and Stories in the Volumes of the Angelica Library”); Legature di pregio in Angelica. Secoli XV-XVIII (Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, 1991, lit. “Fine Bindings in the Angelica Library: 15th-18th Centuries”); and Libri e cultura nella Roma del Borromini (Retablo, 2000, lit. “Books and Culture in Borromini’s Rome”). www.bibliotecaangelica.beniculturali.it
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“This is an anti-scrapping exhibit, if scrapping implies erasing that which our forefathers created. I believe the Biennale has an obligation to preserve Italy and present it to the eyes of the world”, said Vincenzo Trione at the unveiling of Codice Italia, the national pavilion he curated at the 56th Venice Art Biennale, to the media. For the Neapolitan professor and critic, the 2015 Biennale was the culmination of a career still on the rise, and the manifesto of a vision in which grandeurs of the past and present-day vitality are inimitable ingredients of the same cultural recipe. Trione is a professor of art and new media and president of the Faculty of Art, Tourism and Markets at the University Institute for Modern Languages (IULM) in Milan. He contributes to Corriere della Sera. His latest book is Effetto città. Arte cinema modernità (Bompiani, 2014, lit. “City Effect: Art, Cinema, Modernity”). Licia Troisi is the best-selling Italian fantasy author in the world today. Her novels have been translated in 18 languages and she has already published three complete sagas: Mondo Emerso (three trilogies of nine novels, 2004-2010, lit. “Overworld”), the five installments of Ragazza Drago (2008-2012, lit. “Dragon Girl”), and the tetralogy I regni di Nashira (2011-2015, lit. “The Realms of Nashira”). In 2014 she inaugurated a new cycle, Pandora, with the eponymous novel, followed by the second installment in 2016, Il risveglio di Samael (published, like all of Troisi’s books, by Mondadori, lit. “Samael’s Awakening”). In 2015 the author made her non-fiction debut with Dove va a finire il cielo (lit. “Where the Sky Will End”), a science book for young readers on Troisi’s - who studied physics and astrophysics - other great passion: the universe. www.liciatroisi.it
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Chiara Valerio (Scauri, 1978) lives in Rome and works for the nottetempo publishing company. Her latest novel is Almanacco del giorno prima (lit. “Almanac of the Day Before,” Einaudi, 2014). Editor of Nuovi Argomenti, she writes for Sole 24 Ore’s Domenicale (Sunday) magazine and contributes to the Radio 3 program Ad alta voce and the television show Pane quotidiano. She translated and edited Flush, Freshwater and Tra un atto e l’altro (Between the Acts) by Virginia Woolf.
An avid reader from childhood, a hunter of lost books in second-hand bookstalls, Marco Zapparoli decided to devote himself to literature after discovering and devouring Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing (Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts) by Joseph von Eichendorff. He started frequenting the publishing industry by translating Novalis, Kleist and Dürrenmatt. In 1981, at the age of 21, he founded Marcos y Marcos with Marco Franza. After a period of revival of the great writers of the past - including Toole, Vian, Fante and Lem - today Marcos y Marcos is one of Italy’s most dynamic publishing companies. With Claudia Tarolo he now steers both Marcos y Marcos and Letteratura rinnovabile, a cultural association that promotes book and reading culture in inventive and original ways, including large collective events and workshops such as Letti di Notte and Booksound. www.marcosymarcos.com
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