Three days on the voices of Italian Literature and their representation on paper and on screen: the third edition of “Multipli Forti” in New York is spread across multiple locations, April 10-12.
This transatlantic window on major literary trends of Italian fiction, with the participation of authors, editors, translators and readers, is organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in New York In collaboration with
FUIS (Federazione Unitaria Italiana Scrittori – THE BRIDGE Prize – Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò NEW YORK UNIVERSITY – CUNY Hunter College – CIMA – RIZZOLI Bookstore.
Panel discussions, presentations and screenings will be at the Italian Cultural Institute, at CUNY Hunter College, at Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò NYU, at CIMA, at Rizzoli Bookstore.
The complete festival program is here.
Participants are Francesca Archibugi, Annalena Benini, Matteo B. Bianchi, Giulia Calenda, Giulia Caminito, Giancarlo De Cataldo, Viola Di Grado, Alain Elkann, Emily Greenhouse, Isabella Hammad, Rea Hederman, Lorenza Honorati, Daniele Mencarelli, Andrea Molesini, Carmen Pellegrino, Tommaso Pincio, Saif Raja, Loretta Santini per Ada D’Adamo, Nadeesha Uyangoda, Alice Urciolo, Marina Valensise, Massimo Vallerani, Carlo Vecce.
The Festival will be opened on April 10 at 10 am at the Italian Cultural Institute by Fabio Finotti, Director of the Italian Cultural Institute in New York, and Fabrizio di Michele, Consul General of Italy in New York.
At 6 pm, also at the Institute, Andrea Turini will play at the piano, in honor of Maurizio Pollini.
Thursday April 11, Annalena Benini, newly appointed Director of Salone Internazionale del Libro di Torino, in conversation with Fabio Finotti and Michael Reynolds, will reveal the program of the upcoming edition of Italy’s largest public-facing fair.
Benini, in a round table with Lorenza Honorati (Rights Centre coordinator) and Luca Briasco, will also discuss some of the international events from among the Turin Book Fair’s countless initiatives: the Rights Centre, a publishing rights trade market with an exciting fellowship program of its own, as well as l’Autore Invisibile and Dall’Italiano al Mondo, two pioneering programs curated by Ilide Carmignani and involving translators worldwide. Followed by a Q&A with the publishers, editors, translators and journalists in attendance.
Also on April 11, Casa Italiana will host the American premiere of the first two episodes of the television series on La Storia by Elsa Morante, produced by RAI Fiction and Picomedia. The screening will be preceded by a round table on the theme Literature and Audiovisual Languages in Italy Today, and later by an introduction by director Francesca Archibugi and screenwriter Giulia Calenda, with a short talk by Ann Goldstein and Jenny McPhee, current translators of Elsa Morante’s books in America.
April 12 will be a day of multiple round tables (including Tommaso Pincio – Carmen Pellegrino – Matteo B. Bianchi – Michael Moore – Isabella Livorni – Alessia Valfredini – Giulia Caminito – Saif Raja – Hope Campbell Gustafson – Aaron Robertson – Alessandro Giammei – Clara Ramazzotti – Giancarlo De Cataldo – Daniele Mencarelli – Octavian Macewen – Alice Urciuolo – Chiara Benetollo – Luca Briasco), plus a visit to the exhibition dedicated to Nanni Balestrini at the CIMA (Center for Italian Modern Art), and the presentation of the Bridge Prize with the 2023 winners – Loretta Santini for Ada D’Adamo, Isabella Hammad, Alison Cornish – the director of John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Anthony Tamburri and representatives of the institutions supporting the prize. Nominees for the 2024 edition will be announced.
