All online the new edition of Pisa Book Festival. It will be live from Palazzo Blu

From December 3 to 6, 2020, the Pisa Book Festival, a traditional Pisan event dedicated to reading and independent publishing now in its eighteenth edition, returns, and this year it moves live to Youtube and Facebook channels. A new entirely online format and four days of live broadcasts from Palazzo Blu: from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., eight daily meetings, sixty big names among authors and translators, and a variety of book pills and guided tours.

A rich program of virtual appointments with conversations, debates, readings and book pills. Partners and supporters of the event are the Pisa Foundation, Palazzo Blu, the Region of Tuscany, the City of Pisa and the Chamber of Commerce.

“An online festival cannot create the joyful atmosphere of being together, the cultural exchange, the stimulus to creativity that only so many people gathered in one space can give,” said Festival Director Lucia Della Porta, “but what we have created, thanks to the wonderful collaboration of the Palazzo Blu team, will be something very special, a sense of community that we could take to faraway places where we have never been. Thanks to the support and cooperation of our generous supporters, we were able to come up with this new formula in a very short time.”

The host country for this edition will be Italy. The opening day will be opened at 10 a.m. by Alberto Casadei’s Lectio Magistralis, entitled Nel segno di Dante. In the following days other appointments not to be missed: Lina Bolzoni and Nicola Gardini, who will talk about art and reading in the Renaissance; the conversation with Salvatore Veca, who will present the memoir volume Prove di Autoritratto (Mimesis), written with Sebastiano Mondadori; the meeting with Michele Marziani, the philosopher writer who will talk about his latest book Lo sciamano delle Alpi (Bottega Errante Edizioni).

Then there will be a debate between philologists Luca Serianni and Fabrizio Franceschini on Fiammetta Papi’s handbook, La lingua italiana in 100 dates (Della Porta Editori). The history of Italy peeps out with Valeria Palumbo, who recounts the twentieth century through the works of Italy’s greatest women writers in the volume Non per me sola (Laterza), while historian of antiquity Arnaldo Marcone reconstructs the Italian cultural atmosphere at the time of the transition from fascist dictatorship to democratic republic in the volume Dopo il fascismo. The youth question according to Antonio La Penna (Della Porta Publishers). A journey of exploration far back in time is what the Atlas of the Mysterious Places of Antiquity that Massimo Polidoro wrote for Bompiani offers us, illustrated by Francesco Bongiorgi’s beautiful plates.

Women’s writing is the focus of conversation with Valentina Durante, author of Enne (Voland), and Alice Urciuolo, who makes her debut with Adoration (66thand2nd). Family stories and relationships between generations are discussed with Nicoletta Mondadori, who presents her latest book Una madre svagata e altre storie (La Vita Felice). While with Tijana Djerkovic, a writer with two souls, Italian and Serbian, the theme of migrant literature is addressed with her latest book La regina dei cornetti salati (Besa).

Italy with its translators and the great masters of international literature will be the figurehead of a special day, Friday 4, dedicated to translation. There will be Caterina Garzonio, with her translation of a great classic, Michail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita; the voices from Turkey of Giulia Ansaldo and Tina Maraucci, Italian interpreters of Sema Kaygusuz and Kemal Yilmaz; Veronica Raimo, the Italian voice of Octavia Butler and Ali Smith.Poetry will also have its space, with Roberto Francavilla and the verses of Ruy Duarte de Carvalho, Paola Del Zoppo and the poetic ’landscapes’ of Marion Poschmann, Enrico Terrinoni and the writings from prison of Irish revolutionary and hero Bobby Sands. Great return to the Pisa Book Festival for Ilide Carmignani, the Italian voice of the great authors of Hispanic-American literature, who presents the volume that came out posthumously and is considered the literary testament of Roberto Bolaño, L’Università Sconosciuta published by SUR.

Giallo and noir are now considered classic genres in Italian literature, and the Festival presents three new fall novelties again this year: noir wizard Marco Vichi with the latest new case of Commissario Bordelli, Un caso maledetto (Guanda); the fiction debut of an unexpected detective novelist, University of Pisa critic and classical philologist Guido Paduano, Il medico non curante (Pacini); and Michele Navarra’s new legal thriller, Solo Dio è innocente (Fazi), set between Sardinian Barbagia and the law offices of Rome.

The world of young people, in its various forms, will be the main theme of the conversation that Luca Murphy, a television actor, will hold with director Fernando Muraca, Simply Veronica (Città Nuova) and writer Patrizia Rinaldi, You Have My Word (Sinnos) on Saturday, Dec. 5, at 10 a.m. in a meeting especially dedicated to middle school students.

Young first-time writers will be addressed in the writing masterclass by Vanni Santoni, the Florentine writer who for years has led the successful Made in Tuscany column at the Pisa Book Festival. Scheduled for 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 5, the lecture Writing, Debuting, Publishing can be attended by university and high school students who want to learn about the mechanisms that govern the literary world and publishing in Italy.

The organizers of the main book festivals in Tuscany are also meeting at Palazzo Blu to talk about networking best practices. On the opening day, Thursday, Dec. 3 at 11:30 a.m., the new portal La Toscana dei Festival created by the Tuscany Region as part of the Pact for Reading will be presented. Osvaldo Bevilacqua (I colori del Libro - Bagni Vignone), Ernesto Ferrero (Von Rezzori Prize - City of Florence), Fabio Galati (Pisa Book Festival) and Sacha Naspini (L’anno che verrà - Pistoia) will participate as testimonials.

Once again this year, science finds space in the schedule thanks to the collaboration with the European Gravitational Observatory and its director Stavros Katsanevas, who has invited historian of science Stefano Gattei and astrophysicist Patrizia Caraveo to retrace together the stages, from Galileo to the present day, of the revolutions that have transformed our image of the Cosmos. Galileo, the Moon and Black Holes, which concludes the program Sunday at 6:30 p.m., is a meeting not to be missed.

Every day always on YouTube PisaBookFestival and on social media reading tips and book pills presented by authors live from bookstores in Pisa: La Feltrinelli, Blu Book, Pellegrini and the children’s bookstore Gli Anni in Tasca.

The Festival’s new online format includes four days of live broadcast from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on YouTube and Facebook channels with guests connected from all over Italy. A real live TV broadcast from an exceptional studio, the Palazzo Blu Museum in Pisa. This will also be an opportunity to offer visitors to the Pisa Book Festival guided mini-tours among the permanent collections and exhibitions set up.

To view the full program www.pisabookfestival.it

All online the new edition of Pisa Book Festival. It will be live from Palazzo Blu

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