Larger and widespread, returning literature of Rome International Festival that in the 2025 edition, dedicated to the theme “Returns” will see among the great guests Azar Nafisi, Eshkol Nevo, Ali Smith and the Booker Prize Jenny Erpenbeck, Georgi Gospodinov, Laszlo Krasznahorkai and Benjamin Labatut. You are the evenings, one more than 2024, on 8-9-11- 13-15 and 16 July at the Palatine and on July 19 at the Ostia Hydroscalon with Nicola Lagioia.
Special tributes to Andrea Camilleri who will be remembered on the centenary of the birth, on July 13 by Chiara Valerio, Antonio Franchini and Alberto Manguel with readings by Michele Riondino and a special surprise. “For the first time, an unprecedented poem of Camilleri, written in 1944, made available by the Camilleri Fund and we will also show images of the manuscript” anticipates Simona Cives, curator of the Festival, will be presented.
Even the tribute to Flannery O’Connor, on the centenary of the birth, will see the reading, on July 15, of an unpublished text created by the actress Isabella Ragonese. “It will be a song from an unpublished diary of the US writer published in Italy by Minimum Fax,” Cives explains. “This year the dates of the Festival are more, we move on to six, to which is added that of 19 July to the Ostia hydroscal. The previews are underway – this evening there will be the one at the jazz house with David Grossman – who recorded extraordinary participation around the city because our goal is to make the festival more and more widespread. The cultural offer is constantly growing. We will also present a nice initiative in July: the free buses to reach the places where the meetings take place “explained the mayor of Rome Roberto Gualtieri to the presentation. “The appointment of 19 July at the Idroscalo is a bit of a passage of witness that will lead us to the days that we will dedicate to Pier Paolo Pasolini 50 years after the murder” explained the councilor for the culture of the Municipality of Rome Massimiliano Smeriglio.
Another important appointment is that of 11 July, exactly thirty years after the Srebrenica massacre. The evening at the Palatine will be open by the writer Elvira Mujcic, born in Yugoslavia and emigrated to Italy during the war in Bosnia Herzegovina, of which the new novel “The season that was not there” is arriving at the end of August.
The poet Mariangela Gualtieri with some compositions on the theme of the return, the Hungarian author Krasznahorkai, Ali Smith and Paolo Nori, in the five of the Strega 2025 prize, will open the festival on the evening of 8 July. On July 16, on July 16 at the Palatine is entrusted to a great poet, Vivian Lamarque, who will read an unpublished and will pay homage to Pier Paolo Pasolini a Fifty years from death. Then it will be the moment of Eshkol Nevo and Nadia Terranova in the race for the victory of the Strega 2025 prize with what I know of you. To conclude the evening, the great Iranian writer Azar Nafisi, the author of reading Lolita in Tehran.
The musical contributions of the evenings will be edited by the Mokadelic (sonorous columns of Gomorra-The series, Django, Romulus and on my skin).
Waiting for July 9 the winner or winner of the Strega 2025 award, who will be proclaimed/or on 3 July at the Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia, on an evening at the Palatine who will also see Tommaso Ragno on stage who will recite some steps of the Odyssey, the Dutch playwright Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer who with Alcibiades (Ponte alle Grazie) has sold over 150 thousand copies and the American author and the American author Liz Moore published in Italy by nn publisher.
