(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 29 - The Mantua Literature Festival turns 25 and celebrates them, from 8 to 12 September, returning to the streets and squares with an edition, after the restrictions for the pandemic, which sees more live appointments than in 2020 .
An edition that tries to tell our time with over 250 authors and authors present including Colum McCann, Icelandic Jón Kalman Stefánsson, English Ruth Padel, Milo DeAngelis, Antonio Scurati up to Carlo Verdone writer.
Among unprecedented dialogues between authors, shooting of highly successful formats, such as blackboards and the letterbox bench, spaces for confrontation between humanistic and scientific knowledge (Scienceground), "transformation" paths of the city, an art house and literature for children, experiments started in 2020 like the poetic van, balcony square and Radio Festivaletteratura, some new features arrive like the Dante Jukebox and poetic fishing.
The great international authors are also back, live and in video link for those who want to follow them from afar, with among the most anticipated names Alice Walker, iconic voice of African American culture, the American activist and writer Rebecca Solnit and Bernhard Schlink, one of the greatest exponent of contemporary German fiction. There are also writers who have recently attracted the attention of readers all over the world such as Benjamin Labatut, Mariana Enriquez, SantiagoRoncagliolo, Fouad Laroui and Aleksej Ivanov and economists such as Gaël Giraud, Anne Case and Angus Deaton, Nobel Prize 2015.
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