The theme is “Air”, the issue is number 24. Scrittorincittà is preparing to return to Cuneo with the usual summary of meetings with nationally and internationally renowned authors for five days at various locations in the capital, dates reserved for schools, prison inmates and accompanying initiatives. The full program was presented to the press today (Wednesday 2nd November) at Villa Tornaforte Aragno, where Ernesto Ferrero, long-time director of the Turin Book Fair, intervened on the occasion. Tomorrow at 6 p.m. it will be presented to the public at the Monviso cinema with Gek Tessaro as a guest. On Wednesday November 16, after various appointments for schools, Scrittorincittà will inaugurate the 2022 edition at 5.30 p.m. in the Blue Room of the Provincial Meeting Center. Luciano Violante, in dialogue with City Councilor Cristina Clerico, will analyze the current situation based on the consequences of Clean Hands and the mafia massacres. Title of the meeting: «It is not time for revenge». In the same place, at the same time at 6 p.m., in the Rossa and Falco rooms, «Trees like me» are planned with Andrea Mati and Fabio Marzano, while the star of the national rugby team, Maxime Mbandà, talks about his experience « On and next to the Place”. At the same time in the Ferrero room at the Confindustria headquarters, one of the new locations this year along with the Rondò dei Talenti, Francesco Oggiano will speak on social networks. The first day ends at 9.15 p.m. on the stage of the Toselli Theater in the company of the journalist and music critic Ernesto Assante, who will tell in his own way about the great Bolognese artist in “My meeting with Lucio Dalla” to whom Roberta Giallo will propose some songs. Admission 5 euros. Among the meetings on the second day, Thursday, November 17, at 6:00 p.m. in the Falco room of the Meeting Center, Björn Larsson, after he made us feel sea air, travel and great adventures like no other writerHe will analyze the biggest mystery: In his latest novel “In the Name of the Son” he just talks about himself. At the same time, Enrico Galiano leads the audience in the Blue Hall together with the young people to rediscover love, courage and freedom. Also at 6 p.m., Ameya Gabriella Canovi explains emotional addiction in the multipurpose room. At 6 p.m. in the Ferrero Room, Antonio Padoa Schioppa will be the protagonist of the meeting “European Union at a crossroads, risks and opportunities in times of crisis”. At the same time, at the Open Baladin, Luca Iaccarino with «Appetiti. Tales of Food and Passion »will propose a journey through tastings that taste of adventure. End of the day at 9:15 p.m. at the Toselli Theater with “Our friend Giovanni Falcone”: On the thirtieth anniversary of the Capaci massacre, Pietro Grasso, Falcone’s companion in many fights against the Mafia, rit will record the life, words, desires and actions of a wide-eyed judge who has given his existence for legality.
Peter Grasso
Third day, Friday 18 November, under the banner of the City of Cuneo Prize for the First Novel, at 10.30 a.m. in the Blue Room: the reading committees will meet the authors recommended in the 2021/2022 edition: Oriana Ramunno, Tommaso Scotti and Raffaele Notar . Participant Marie Vingtras, author selected by the Festival du premier roman de Chambéry. At 5 p.m., at the Toselli Theater, the director of La Stampa Massimo Giannini will have the task of answering the question: “What is the air in the country?”. The editor of Cuneo de La Stampa, Massimo Mathis, will speak to him. At 6.30 p.m. in the Blue Room it will be the turn of the series “Voices set in ice”: the Turin mountaineer and journalist Enrico Camanni will get to know the Ice Age habitat where the writer and journalist Gabriele Romagnoli set the powerful and visionary novel which through a Family and three generations told about the disappearance of the most important Italian glacier. Moderated by Irene Borgna. At the same time, Stefano Baldini, Olympic Champion in the Falco Marathon, will be speaking in the Falco Hall about a career and a life “with wings on your feet”. Also at 6.30 p.m., Vittorio Emanuele Parsi will speak in the Ferrero room on “Air of War”. At the same time, the City of Cuneo Prize for the first novel is awarded to the Club ‘L Caprissi. At 6.30 p.m., Ezio Mauro, journalist and former editor of Repubblica, will speak with Massimo Mathis on the Toselli stage about fascism since the 100th anniversary of the March on Rome.
The director of La Stampa Massimo Giannini
Finally, at 9:15 p.m., the meeting “Margherita Hack, a star among the stars” is scheduled again at the Toselli Theater. Federico Taddia takes the audience to the sky of astrophysics with live music by singer-songwriter Marquica (vocals), Giovanni Ghioldi (guitar) and Marco Brioschi (trumpet and flugelhorn). Saturday 19 November, after the many meetings in the morning with Chiara Codecà, Beatrice Cristalli and Andrea De Benedetti, Saverio Simonelli, Franco Aliberti, among others, at 2.30 p.m. in the Blue Room, Duilio Gianmaria will speak on Afghanistan, while Edoardo Boncinelli ( in context) and Antonio Ereditato will try to answer the question: what is energy? At 3 p.m. at the Open Baladin, starting from the idea that philosophy is not an abstract discipline but serves to solve problems and purify the mind of mistakes, Paolo Pagani will propose an original experiment: he will address 19 great philosophers of the past , from Socrates to Heidegger, the hottest questions of our time. At 4.30 p.m. in the Blue Room, dialogue between Amedeo Balbi and Piero Bianucci on space flights. At the same time Bonnie Garmus introduces her latest novel on the microphone of Petunia Ollister. Also at 4.30 p.m. at the Monviso cinema, Corrado Augias will lead the audience on the discovery of Christian Rome, while director Daniele Vicari will talk about the current situation of cinema. At 6.30 p.m. in the Blue Room guided tour through the mysteries of the pharaoh boy Tutankhamen with Valentina Santini; At the same time, in the Varco auditorium in Piazza Foro boario, there will be a debate on nuclear energy with Luca Romano and Silvia Kuna Ballero. At 6.30 p.m., at the Toselli Theater, a permanent presence of the literary festival returns to Scrittoincittà: Michela Murgia. At 9.15 p.m. on the same stage «Dialogues on change» with cartoonist, designer, cartoonist and TV writer Makkox and actor Valerio Aprea.
Michele Murgia
Sunday November 20, last day of the event, a tribute to Beppe Fenoglio at 9.30 in the Red Room with the actor Luca Occelli. An hour later in the Falco room. Stefania Chiavero, Dora Damiano, Piero Dadone, Roberto Martelli and Tiziano Tani will interview the protagonists of many experiences that together tell a year in Cuneo. At 11 a.m. Francesco Battistini and Annalisa Camilla declare war on Ukraine in the Blue Room. At the same time, the philosopher Matteo Saudino is the protagonist at the Open Baladin. At 2.30 p.m. in the Blu Room, «New Air in Italian Crime» with Marco Malvaldi and Samantha Bruzzone, while in the Red Room it is the turn of the great Canadian writer Miriam Toews. Also at 2.30 p.m., meetings with Telmo Plevani, Antonio Di Bella and Alessandra Minello respectively in the Falco room, the Monviso cinema and the Varco auditorium. At 3pm, at Casa Galimberti, dialogue with the authors of the mother tongue contest Fedoua El Attari, Sofia Spenacchio, winner of the special prize at the Torino Film Festival, and Miriam Tahri. At the same time, at the Open Baladin, a journey into the world of beer with Teo Musso, Laura Pranzetti Lombardini and Sualzo, while in the Rondò dei Talenti Matteo B. B. Bianchi and David Valentini explain “what blows in the air” to those who want to write books. At 4.30 p.m., Piergiorgio Odifreddi will speak about the beauty of mathematics at the Monviso cinema; The crime writers Marco Bosonetto and Davide Longo are also among the Varco guests. At 6.30 p.m. Benedetta Tobagi will speak in the Blue Hall about “Women’s Resistance”, Olivia Laing in the Red Hall “The best version of ourselves”. At the same time, Domenico Quirico, again in the Meeting Center, in the Falco room, talks to Massimo Mathis about «A thousand reasons for a senseless war»; at the same time, at the Monviso cinema, “The dilemmas of a troubled country” based on Paolo Pagliaro at the microphone of Paolo Griseri. Again at 6.30 p.m. in the Ferrero Room it is the turn of “The Alphabet of Nature” by Roberto Battiston.
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Grand finale at 9:15 p.m. on the Toselli stage with Pif, based on his book “The Desperate Search for a Poor Idiot’s Love” closes the exhibition with a journey around the world in search of love. With him Matteo Corradini. The meetings are free with reservation or with tickets between 3 and 5 euros. All information and the complete program on www.scrittorincitta.it