TURIN - "What world do I dream of for post-Covid? I dream of a world that has learned its lesson, that has understood that alone you can't go anywhere, that to feel good you need others to feel good too. A world that, for example, understand that if the West vaccinates everything, but entire areas remain vaccinated, we have not solved anything.
I dream of a world with fewer inequalities, a true modern scourge. It is a radical thought, but Galileo was too. "The Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie thus opened the lectio with which she inaugurated the 33rd edition of the Turin Book Fair at the invitation of the director Nicola Lagioia. by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, certainly not by chance. A woman of color. A feminist writer who, even in Turin, reiterated the need for a more shared world, also to combat gender-based violence. , there is little knowledge of the human being. "One day, I was in America for a prize - he said - in a taxi. The taxi driver asked me what work I did.I replied that I was a writer and he told me that he did not read and that he would never read a novel by a black woman because he did not care. I understood at that moment that we are all 'closed' to certain worlds of others, for example I don't read science fiction books. And I am wrong because in every human work there is humanity. And if men stopped reading practically only men's texts for at least 50 years, I believe we would no longer have gender-based violence, because males would know women more and would no longer have so much desire to do violence to them, to annihilate them ".And if men stopped reading practically only men's texts for at least 50 years, I believe we would no longer have gender-based violence, because males would know women more and would no longer have so much desire to do violence to them, to annihilate them ".And if men stopped reading practically only men's texts for at least 50 years, I believe we would no longer have gender-based violence, because males would know women more and would no longer have so much desire to do violence to them, to annihilate them ".
The writer, welcomed in Turin by the warmth of an audience that applauded her several times, then signed copies of her books at the stand of Einaudi, her Italian publisher who has just published 'Notes on pain', dedicated to investigating her deeper feelings after the death of the father.
"Literature is my greatest love - he concluded - it is the lens with which I look at the world. I dream of a post-Covid world in which everyone read more literature and rejoice in the release of a book like and more than the release of a movie".
