The Taobuk, Taormina International Book Festival, arrives at the Lima Book Fair (underway until August 6) which sees Italy for the first time as a guest of honor. Two appointments dedicated to the Festival. The first «to build culture. Festivals, visions and literature of the present “(tomorrow in the Italian pavilion) with Antonella Ferrarapresident and artistic director of the Festival, Alfio Bonaccorso executive director, e Silvia Vallini, Director of the Italian Institute of Culture of Lima.
A reflection, starting from the experience of Taobuk, on the role of the festivals such as spaces of dialogue and comparison, capable of giving shape to a cultural vision that intertwines looks, identities and urgent themes of the present, in a cultural project that has always had a formidable international reach, while remaining rooted in the territory. This will also be an opportunity to present the celebratory volume “Beyond the borders of a dream” (Giulio Perrone Editore), edited by Paolo Di Paolowith unpublished contributions from Nino Rizzo Nervo, Massimo Sideri, Elvira Terranova, Matteo Collura And Antonio Spadaro. A choral book that crosses fifteen years of the festival history, including words, images and memories, through the testimonies of great narrators such as PAul Auster, Isabel Allende, Amos Oz, Ian McEwan, Elizabeth Strout, David Grossman and Nobel prizes Jon Fosse, Annie Ernaux, Mario Vargas Llosa.
In the second appointment, «exceed borders. From the Apennines to Sicily “(Wednesday) Antonella Ferrara, Alfio Bonaccorso And Claudio Pozzani, Director of the International Poetry Festival of Genoa – Words wide open, moderate by Silvia Vallini They will compare the experience of two festivals on the two sides of Italy. At the center the enhancement of diversity, multidisciplinarity, the ability to welcome figures of maximum importance, to combine excellence with beauty without diverting eyes from the most important commitment: the quality of the editorial and programmatic choices.
“In Peru – said Antonella Ferrara – not only to tell who we are, but to celebrate a true dialogue between sister cultures, united by the” Latin bonds “, but actually universal. We bring with us the dreams of written pages, living and shared memories that have crossed the Mediterranean and the ocean to become bridge between worlds ».