On 4 December in the presence of the Minister of Culture, Dario Franceschini and the Mayor of Rome Roberto Gualtieri, the national fair of small and medium publishing ‘Più libri più liber’, which returns in attendance until 8 December at the Nuvola dell ‘Eur, in Rome.
At the opening of the most important publishing event in the capital, also the councilor for Economic Development, Commerce and Handicraft, University, Research, Start-Up and Innovation Paolo Orneli and the sheikh Bodour Al Qasimi, president of the IPA – International Publisher Association .
The mayor of Rome Gualtieri will also be the protagonist of a special event with the mayor of Warsaw, Rafał Trzaskowski dedicated to “Capitals of Europe: more environment, more rights, more culture”, moderated by Rai journalist Giancarlo Loquenzi.
Promoted and organized by the Italian Publishers-Aie Association, Più libri più liber, chaired by Annamaria Malato, directed by Fabio Del Giudice, with a program curated by Silvia Barbagallo, turns 20 and celebrates them with an edition dedicated to Freedom. Alessandro Baricco will speak about the liberating power of books on the first day in a lectio magistralis in the Auditorium.
About 500 appointments between debates, readings and exhibitions, during the 5 days of the Fair with the Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa among the great guests and for the first time the opening, during the days of the event, of the Auditorium della Nuvola. Among the protagonists of the opening day, the journalist and writer Nadeesha Uyangoda, born in Sri Lanka who has lived in Brianza since she was six, with the essay-memoir ‘The only black person in the room’ (66thand2nd) in which focus on “black Italians”. A topic that she will also talk about with the British journalist and author Reni Eddo-Lodge with her new book ‘Why I don’t talk about racism with white people anymore’ (E / O).
At the Cloud on 4 December also the Turkish journalist and activist Ece Temelkuran with ‘Trust and dignity’ (Bollati Boringhieri) and the Spanish philosopher, essayist and novelist Fernando Savater who will discuss with Giuseppe Laterza on how to ‘Learn freedom’. Among the meetings the one with Marino Sinibaldi and Paolo Di Paolo who will talk about the value of reading during the pandemic in the meeting “The reader’s suitcase. Because despite everything we continue to love books”, with the readings by Valerio Aprea.
And, after the forced stop for the pandemic, the professional center is back with a wide calendar of 25 meetings and spaces and services on 500 square meters, in collaboration with Aldus, the European network of book fairs coordinated by Aie and co – funded by the European Commission under the Creative Europe program.
To close the Fair, on 8 December, will be the reading by Luca Zingaretti, who also directs the correspondence of the young Andrea Camilleri with his parents Giuseppe and Carmela Fragapane, a unique and unpublished source on the writer’s life. The event, in the Auditorium, “Mamma Carissima – Unpublished letters from the Camilleri archive”, presented, in collaboration with Più libri più gratuito, by Eur Spa within its own cultural and artistic season Eur Culture for Rome, will be opened by a memory of the Maestro by Maurizio De Giovanni. Among the most anticipated appointments in the Auditorium della Nuvola also Zerocalcare in dialogue with Chiara Valerio in an excursus on all her works up to the recent animated series ‘Strappare along the edges’, produced by Netflix. (HANDLE).
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