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With Lisa Dierbeck, Nathacha Appanah, Susan Rosenberg, Doron Rabinovici, David Albahari, and Sandro Veronesi.
Free with purchase from the bar.

Sandro Veronesi is an Italian novelist, essayist, and journalist. He has published seven novels, one collection of poetry, and five non-fiction books.

With Andrej Blatnik, Emmanuelle Ertel, Asaf Schurr, and Sandro Veronesi; moderated by A.M. Homes

Sandro Veronesi is an Italian novelist, essayist, and journalist. He has published seven novels, one collection of poetry, and five non-fiction books.

The Force of the Past won the Viareggio-Repaci Prize and the Campiello Prize and was a Zerilli-Marimo finalist. In 2005, he won the Strega Prize for Quiet Chaos.

More than 100 writers from 40 nations will convene to New York City to celebrate the power of the writer’s voice as a bold and vital element of public discourse at the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature. Don't miss an exciting week of cross-cultural exchange, including panel discussions, one-on-one conversations, readings, performances, and much more

Margaret Mazzantini had a long career as an actress before publishing her first novel, Il Catino di Zinco, which won the Selezione Campiello Award in 1994.

Conversion is an explosive topic in Jewish life. Historically, Jews have alternately welcomed and discouraged converts. Jewishness itself has been variously defined by religion, peoplehood, and ethnicity, with differing implications for converts in each case. In our own day the borderlines of Jewish identity appear less fixed than ever, and the question arises as to what significance conversion still holds in a Jewish world increasingly marked by assimilation, intermarriage and cultural hybridity.

A young woman who thinks she has everything she needs (good career, nice family, caring and loving partner) suddenly finds herself embroiled in a passionate love affair with a married man she meets in a restaurant where he waits tables. Her well-ordered life is suddenly thrown into a spiral of secret meetings, stolen moments of happiness, growing anguish, and piles of lies. The waiter's wife becomes suspicious and the lovers are faced with a decision that neither of them is ready to make.

On the second anniversary of the tragic Abruzzo earthquake, Dr. Lucia Arbace, Commissioner for the Abruzzo Region’s Historic and Artistic Ethno-anthropological Heritage and Director of the project’s restoration, will illustrate the Region’s artistic legacy and its present state, after the catastrophic quake that shook the city of l’Aquila and Abruzzo on April 6, 2009.

MIBAC’s Director General, Mr. Mario Resca, will review and analyze the Ministry’s latest policies for the preservation and restoration of Italy’s artistic heritage.

The Italian Cultural Institute presents the youngest “Strega Prize” winner ever, Paolo Giordano, and his best selling debut novel The Solitude of Prime Numbers.

Hailed by the New York Times as “Mesmerizing…” and by the New York Times Book Review as “…a finely tuned machine powered by the perverse mechanics of need”, The Solitude of Prime Numbers explores the loneliness of human condition and how those who suffer it to the extreme survive.

While a great deal of scholarship has been devoted in recent years to the social and cultural history of women in early modern Venice, far less work has been done to date on women's lives in the same period in the cities of the Venetian terraferma. This workshop brings together the editor and two contributors to the forthcoming volume Donne a Verona (Verona, Cierre), to discuss this issue with special reference to Verona, using approaches drawn from social, cultural, and literary history.

 The sixth and final Adventure of this season will feature Sorpano Violeta Urmana, starring at the Met in Tosca and Ariadne Auf Naxos.

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