(ANSA) - ROME, OCTOBER 04 - 'Insieme', the unique event that brought books, authors, readers back to the capital, sold out for most of the events and satisfaction from the publishers , from 1st to 4th October.
A bet won, in this moment of health emergency, for a festival born from the collaboration between the three main Roman literary events: Più libri più libero, Libri Come e Letterature, canceled due to the pandemic, and edited by an editorial committee composed of Silvia Barbagallo, AndreaCusumano, Michele De Mieri, Lea Iandiorio, Rosa Polacco and MarinoSinibaldi.
The great event, in presence and in streaming, with 168 stands, meetings, readings and artistic and musical performances, ends on October 4 with Francesco De Gregori on the stage with Sandro Veronesi and Enrico Deregibus, curator of Francesco De Gregori.
The texts' (Giunti) and with the concert of the Extraliscio band, with readings by Ermanno Cavazzoni, to whom Elisabetta Sgarbi has dedicated her new documentary film.
Among the great guests who for four days animated the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome and the Archaeological Park of the Colosseum, the presence of the Nobel Prize Winner Wole Soyinka, the literary case Valerie Perrin with her 'Changing the water aifiori' (and / or) , by Manuel Vilas with 'La gioia, suddenly' (Guanda) and by Salman Rushdie with his 'Quichotte' (Mondadori), in direct connection.
And among the Italians of Antonio Scurati in dialogue with Lucia Annunziata on 'M The man of providence' (Bompiani), the second part of the exceptional trilogy that started with 'M.
The son of the century ', winner of the Strega Prize 2019. And another Strega Prize, Edoardo Albinati, with the new' Desiderideviati '(Rizzoli), Maurizio de Giovanni with' Too cold for September '(Einaudi), Erri De Luca and Zerocalcare who announced the arrival of two new books.
The festival, organized by the Italian Publishers Association, the Institution of Libraries of Rome, the Music Foundation for Rome and the Zètema Progetto Cultura, and promoted by the Mibact Center for Book and Reading, by the Lazio Region and by Roma Capitale, took place in compliance with all protocols. safety.
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