The woods and the solitude of the Nuoro mountains, themes dear to the writer Grazia Deledda, dialogue with the places of origin of Orhan Pamuk, one of the greatest contemporary Turkish novelists: the European shores of Istanbul that look with melancholy on the Asian coasts in the Strait of Bosphorus. Two prestigious names in world culture, both winners, 80 years later, of the Nobel prize for literature: in 1926 Grazia Deledda, in 2006 Orhan Pamuk. Authors who are now confronted in the second edition of the "The Nobel meets the Nobel" event promoted by the regional ethnographic institute (Isre) of Nuoro with a series of events from December 2019 to May 2020.
An international edition after last year that saw the Nuorese writer "talk" with Dario Fo, the last Italian to receive the Nobel Prize for literature. The festival starts on December 10th with a conference entitled "Sense of place, memory and nostalgia" by Dulio Caocci, University of Cagliari, for the session dedicated to Grazia Deledda, and by Tina Maraucci, of the University of Florence , for the one dedicated to Orhan Pamuk. In the middle a round table coordinated by the Turkish journalist Esma Cakir, former director of the foreign press in Italy. It then continues in March with the preparation of the exhibition on the Isre's premises taken from the Museum of Innocence in Istanbul and focused on the book of the same name by Pamuk.
The exhibition will be open until May, when a visit to Nuoro by the Turkish Nobel Prize is scheduled. "Between Grazia Deledda and Orhan Pamuk there are many more similarities than can be imagined - Francesco Muscau, creator and artistic director of the event tells ANSA - both writers draw on their own poetry and stories from their own places of origin. For Pamuk the symbolic place is Istanbul, for Deledda is Nuoro and Sardinia, themes that we will address in the conference.The event will continue in March when we will inaugurate here in Isre a part of the Museum of Innocence of Istanbul, built by the same Pamuk is inspired by the novel of the same name by the writer, altogether 87 showcases containing hundreds of small objects, furnishings, clothes, photos, newspaper clippings, documents, condense all the meaning of the book: an intense love story between Kemal and Fusun.
In the month of May, then - confirms Muscau - we will have Orhan Pamuk in Nuoro ". The artistic director, who also curated the first edition of" The Nobel meets the Nobel ", explains the sense of" dialogue "between writers awarded the prestigious award . "In the various editions of this review, Grazia Deledda accompanies us to let us meet other writers who, like her, have received the Nobel Prize. In this case he introduces us to Pamuk and with him all the events that filled a recent piece of history in Istanbul, the meeting point between the West and the East.
At the same time the Sardinian writer leads us to better discover her places of origin: the rural village of Nuoro and the countryside of Galtellì, the traditions and the deep identity of central Sardinia, aspects that are very well known in Turkey that in 1935 he dedicated a stamp to Grazia Deledda, translated and studied in their universities. Distant and very close themes - insists Muscau - that make us understand how the stories of a great metropolis or a microscopic village can become universal history ".
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Isre Nuoro
