Through storytelling, poetry and prose, four widely published Italian Scottish women writers will describe their diverse journeys of navigating, rooting and belonging.
This performance is inspired by the innovative research of Professor Manuela D’Amore of University of Catania, which highlighs the distinctive features of Scottish Italian literature within the broader context of the Italian diaspora.
Chaired by Cav. Ronnie Convery, President of Italian Scotland and Honorary Consul of Italy in Glasgow.
Throughout the performance, visual projections of the writers' families wil be displayed.
Featured Writers:
- Professor Manuela D’Amore, author of Literary Voices of the Italian Diaspora in Britain: Time, Transnational Identities and Hybridity.
- Cavaliere Mary Contini OBE, Director Valvona & Crolla; one of Scotland’s best-known Italian cooks; author, broadcaster and journalist. Her books include Dear Francesca, Dear Olivia, Dear Alfonso and Valvona & Crolla, A Year at an Italian Table.
- Hilda De Felice, creator of two plays, Loving The Enemy, and The Badly-behaved Poets’ Society; an after-life encounter between Rabbie Burns and the Italian poet Giovanni Pascoli.
- Ann-Marie di Mambro, playwright and television screenwriter; author of Tally’s Blood, an option on the SQA English curriculum, and Brothers of Thunder.
- Dr. Anne Pia, poet, essayist, food writer. Her work includes award-winning Language of My Choosing, Keeping Away the Spiders, Magnaccioni: My Food My Italy and The Sweetness of Demons, translations and responses to Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal.
