Name: Andrea Bajani: Calvino and the Cold Warmth of Exactitude
Start: 2023-10-16T18:00:00-07:00
Location: Italian Cultural Institute

Andrea Bajani:  Calvino and the Cold Warmth of Exactitude

The Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles is an overseas office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation dedicated to the promotion of the Italian culture in the United States.

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Writer and poet Andrea Bajani on Calvino’s language. In English.

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Andrea Bajani is one of the most respected and award-winning novelists and poets of contemporary Italian literature. He is the author of four novels and three collections of poems. His novel, If You Kept a Record of Sins, published in the US by Archipelago and translated by Elizabeth Harris, won the Super Mondello Prize, the Brancati Prize, the Recanati Prize and the Lo Straniero Prize. His latest novel, Il libro delle case (The Book of Homes) was finalist for the Premio Strega and the Premio Campiello, and is being translated in seventeen countries, by the most prestigious publishing houses, such as Gallimard, Anagrama, Fraktura, Kampa, Humanitas. He is currently writer in residence at Rice University, in Houston, Texas.This event is part of the 23rd edition of the Week of Italian Language in the World – the Italian Language and Sustainability, with a specific focus on the work of Italian writer Italo Calvino (1923-1985), celebrating the 100th anniversary of his birth.The event is also part of Six Memos for the Present 1923-2023, an interdisciplinary lecture series celebrating Italo Calvino’s centennial, curated by USC Professor Gian Maria Annovi. Each lecture will expand Calvino’s text in different directions with the goal of fostering a discussion on the role of literature in today’s society.  Download the<a href="https://iiclosangeles.esteri.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Six-memos-Lectures.pdf" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> full program.</a>

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