FLORENCE, ITALY – The French literature festival is back, from October 22 through November 26, with 40 events and 15 authors across 16 Italian cities. The face of this sixth edition will be Teresa Cremisi, a leading personality in international publishing. The sixth edition is organized by the French embassy in Italy and the Institut Francais in Bari, Bologna, Florence, Lucca, Milan, Naples, Padua, Palermo, Parma, Piacenza, Pietrasanta, Pisa, Rome, Turin, Venice, Verona.
The event will focus on the many aspects of francophonie: from Africa and South America to the Middle East and South-East Asia. The program will open with an evening dedicated to 2014 Nobel in literature , Patrick Modiano, with Teresa Cremisi, Mauro Covacich and Marino Sinibaldi.
The 2015 edition of the Festival will explore the territories of graphic novels, an emerging genre in France. Five top authors will meet the Italian public: Nine Antico, Alessandro Tota and Pierre Van Hove (Coconino Press), Guillaume Long (BAO), tienne Davodeau (Porthos edizioni).
From drawings to authors ”from elsewhere” – who are not native speakers but chose French to describe their literary universe -the festival will include Lebanon’s Wajdi Mouawad (Fazi), French novelists Francois Weyergans (L’Orma), member of the dell’Académie Francaise and winner of the prestigious Goncourt prize in 2005; Véronique Ovaldé (minimum fax), or ric Chevillard (Del Vecchio Editore).
The aim of the festival, promoters said, ”is not only to get the Italian public acquainted with the many aspects of French narrative that is most appreciated at home, but also to support each year the Italian publishers who choose, translate and publish francophone authors”.
The meetings will be held at the Institut Francais of Rome, Milan, Florence, Naples, Palermo and at the Academy of France at Villa Medici in Rome as well as book stores, libraries, universities, literary clubs and other places across Italian cities and regions putting books, reading and readers at the center of their activities to sponsor culture.
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