PORDENONE – On Sunday 17 September, the final day of the Pordenonelegge festival, a variety of books will be presented.
Viola Ardone comes to the festival with “The Great Miracle” (Einaudi), an emotional story about young Elba and Dr. Meraviglia, who will bring her back to life outside the psychiatric hospital: a dialogue between the writer and curator Pordenonelegge Alberto Garlini, 11.30 i Capitol; Writer Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt says in dialogue with Lorenzo Fazzini: “The challenge of Jerusalem. Journey to the Holy Land” (and/or with Libreria Editrice Vaticana), 19:00 Vendramini Auditorium; Corrado Agias reads “Paolo, the Man Who Invented Christianity” (Rai Libri) with Marco Frittella, 6 p.m., Teatro Verdi; Vittorino Andreoli arrives in Solferino with the words: “Together we will win. The power of cooperation in our lives”, 16:00 Piazza San Marco; Dante Spinotti for “The Ship of Theseus” together with Nicola Lucchi signs “The Dream of Cinema. My Life, One Movie at a Time” and talks about it with Riccardo Costantini, Capitol, 5:30 p.m.; Giorgio Vallortigara talks about his book Pulcino di Cant (Adelphi) with pordenonelegge artistic director Gian Mario Villalta; Renato Mannheimer and Giorgio Pacifici together with Michela Nicolussi Moro present “Ovest. New Society” (Jaca Book), 19:00 Confindustria Alto Adriatico. International screenings with Sally Hayden “And for the Fourth Time We Drowned” (Bollati Boringhieri), interview with Luana De Francisco, 17:00 “Audience of the Region”; Lidi Salvair presents “Conference” (Prehistorica) with Alessandro Mezzena Lona, 15:00, Palazzo Montereale, Mantica; Nguyen Phan Qui Mai talks about his new novel Where the Dust Flies (Nord editions) with Federica Augusta Rossi, 19:00 Auditorium Largo San Giorgio. First Italian presentation of Philippe Forest in a bookstore with the book “Io resto re dei mie sadness” (Fandango), which he looks through in the company of Fabio Gambaro, 11.30 Auditorium Largo San Giorgio. And again the preview of “What We Are Not” by Gianni Biondillo (Guanda), meeting with the author Andrea Molesini and Martina Delpiccolo, 12:00 Piazza della Motta; Marcello Veneziani talks about “Vico Deimirali” (Rizzoli) 19:00 Spazio Gabelli; Natalie Tocci talks to Elisabetta Pozzetto about her new book for Solferino, Fuori dal Tunnel. How Europe can overcome the great crisis”, 17:00 Spazio Gabelli; together with Sandrone Dazieri and Alessandro Mezzema Lona Piergiorgio Pulixi talks about “Stella di mare” (Rizzoli) 11:00 PalaPAFF!; Antonio G. Bortoluzzi presents “Vajonte the Welder” for Marsilio with Piero Ruzzante and Chiara Valerio, 10 a.m., Auditorium Region; conversation with Antonio Riccardi, Franco Faggiani at the Gelso Company festival (Aboca), 15:00 Audience of the region. September news on pordenonelegge: Mauro Corona signs “Le Swings” for Mondadori: presents it with Marilena Rossi, 19:00 PalaPAFF!; Roberta Scorranese will talk about her book It Serves the Body (Bompiani) with Giorgio Nisini and Alessandra Tedesco, 17:00 Ridotto at the Teatro Verdi; Emanuele Trevi presents “La casa del mago” (Ponte alle Grazie) in dialogue with festival curator Alberto Garlini, 15:00. Spazio Gabelli and Tiziano Scarpa introduce us to the pages of “Truth and Hands” (Einaudi), 19:00, monastery. San Francesco.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate and historian Irina Shcherbakova, founder of Memorial, will take part in the festival dedicated to Russia, which bravely resists, thanks to the cooperation of the Historical Association of Friuli. With Andrea Gullotta and Irina Shcherbakova. Presented by Tommaso Piffer, 10:00, Auditorium Istituto Vendramini.
Evening in honor of the Campiello Prize 2023, 18.30 Piazza della Motta, meeting with the winner of the 61st Prize. With Chiara Fenoglio and Mariacristina Gribaudi. Presented by Gian Mario Villalta, artistic director of the festival.
Tomorrow Rai Kids will take part in Pordenonelegge 2023 with the show “Amico Libro Live”, on stage which will see Lorenzo Branchetti, famous character of children’s television, former protagonist of “La Melevisione” and currently playing in the cast of “La Melevisione”. Posta di Yoyo” on Rai Yoyo. Meeting from 10.30 in Piazza della Motta.
The curtain falls on the XXIV edition of Pordenonelegge with twenty-year-old poets. Pordenonelegge Poesia Prize 2023, dedicated to collections of poems by poets under thirty years of age. With Diletta D’Angelo, Lorenzo Pataro and Antonio Francesco Perozzi. Presented by Roberto Cescon, Azzurra D’Agostino, Tommaso Di Dio, Massimo Ghezzi and Franca Mancinelli.
Meeting at the Poetry Library of Palazzo Gregoris, 21:00.