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Sangiuliano, 'we will give a book to every unborn child'

2023-05-28T12:10:18.055Z

Highlights: Gennaro Sangiuliano says he is convinced that the Frankfurt Book Fair 2024 is "a great opportunity for Italy and I am very happy" The minister tells some of the ideas he is trying to implement in the law on the book that he is developing. He says he has imposed the discipline of reading at least one book a month, even at the expense of the gym that would do him good. The other objective of SangiULiano with the new law is to avoid the depopulation of the libraries of the historic centers.


La Buchmesse great opportunity, we need a high pluralist profile (ANSA)


ROME - The fact that Italians do not read much for Gennaro Sangiuliano - who calls himself "almost a fanatic" of books - "is almost a pain" and one of his missions at the helm of the Ministry of Culture is "to bring people back to reading", especially the very young. And it is for this reason - he tells his speech at the Trento Festival of Economics - that he says he is convinced that the Frankfurt Book Fair 2024, of which our country will be the guest of honor, is "a great opportunity for Italy and I am very happy". On the resignation of the extraordinary commissioner Ricardo Franco Levi has no doubts: "Now we will look around, also because the appointment is up to the government in its collegiality and we will find a high-profile person who can organize a presence that is pluralist, democratic and able to represent all the experiences of our publishing and our literature". The minister tells some of the ideas he is trying to implement in the law on the book that he is developing: first of all to involve potential readers already from the cradle.
"We think - he says - to give a book to every newborn.
Now we will see in what formula, giving with a voucher, perhaps through computer tools, the Spid and so on, to families who can buy a book for their unborn child and then give it to him when he is old enough to read ". Sangiuliano explains that reading "is a fact of education and a fundamental role is played by schools but also by families, we must bring people back to reading. I don't criminalize anything, even the platforms on which you see television series have their role, we can't stop progress and have a Luddite approach to the new things that come to us. The world goes on, but the value that a book gives you is priceless..." "Even now that I have to work much more - he says - I have imposed the discipline of reading at least one book a month, even at the expense of the gym that would do me good".
The minister then says he is convinced that the paper format will never decay: "It is a bit like what happened on the radio, it was said when television arrived it would disappear and instead it remained and found its dignified dimension.
I think that the paper format will always survive, I prefer it after a day in front of the video...".
The other objective of Sangiuliano with the new law is to avoid the depopulation of the libraries of the historic centers. "There is in fact - he explains - the theme of rents, it is clear that today we prefer to rent to a brand that can pay you reckless figures instead of to those who have to keep the account of a bookstore. How are we going to do this? Also imposing with a compensation mechanism to the Municipalities, which very often are owners of historic premises in urban centers, or other public bodies to give the bookseller the opportunity to rent the property at fair rent ". And he continues: "Another measure that we will try to put in place is on the model of the project of a few years ago called Impresa Donna which gave non-repayable resources to women who wanted to start a business. We would like to do it with booksellers and then give a fund to young people under 35 to open a bookstore (today there are also courses for booksellers that go very well, with many young people who have this great passion that I fully share) and in this case preferably in the suburbs ".


Source: ansa

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