2023-05-18 17:19:01
Time.news – The last one for Nicola Lagioia, who worked at the Lingotto for seven years, the first as “directress in pectore” for Annalena Beniniwhich is preparing to take up the baton in 2024. The 35th edition of the International Book Fair of Turin is, like every year, an event of impressive proportions: it will see a succession of presentations and meetings until Monday 22.
Dedicated this year to Theme from “Through the Looking Glass”inspired by the fantasy world ofAlice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, the largest Italian book publishing fair brings together Italian and international writers in Turin, making it a meeting point for readers – very many, in 2022 there were about 168 thousand -, writers, publishers, and exponents of the foreign markets which in Turin as in Frankfurt on the occasion of the Buchmesse negotiate the copyright for translations.
The event was dedicated precisely to the fantastic, to the imagination and to Alice as a guide in the territories of fantasy which, as per tradition, anticipated the Salone from the Rai Auditorium in Turin on Wednesday with the show “Climbing on mirrors – music and words for Alice” by Stefano Bollani, Alessandro Baricco and Valentina Cenni. Svetlana Aleksievi, Nobel Prize for Literature in 2015, inaugurated the opening of the event.
Two of the authors are also foreigners most anticipated: Emmanuel Carrere and Peter Cameron, both published in Italy by Adelphi. The French Carrere, as is known, followed the trial held in France for the attack on the Bataclan, and wrote about it in V13. On Sunday 21st, in room 500, Carre’re will talk about what emerged from the trial involving the accomplices of the attack and the sole survivor of the 2015 massacre, and how this constituted material for his book.
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The French writer Emmanuel Carrere
Cameron, American author of “One day this pain will be useful to you” and of “Things that happen at night (all Adelphi)”, returns to Italy with Cosa fa la gente tutto il giorno? Saturday 20. Writers of high social and political impact are still expected among the foreigners: the Kurdish journalist and dissident writer Behrouz Boochani will address the issue of denied rights on Monday 22, while the Nobel Prize for Literature Wole Soyinkawho returns to the novel after 50 years, will present “Chronicles from the happiest land in the world” on Sunday 21 May, inspired by a Nigerian setting.
© ULF ANDERSEN / AURIMAGES VIA AFP Peter Cameron
From Spain, Fernando Aramburu will bring his new novel Figli della favola (Guanda) to Turin on Sunday 21st. Among the Italians, it is predictable and right that the greatest number of applauses will be Michelle Murgiathe Sardinian writer who has strongly linked her name to a political commitment, and who recently told in a touching interview with strength and joy given to Corriere della Sera that she is suffering from a cancer that will not leave her much to live.
© Mimmo Frassineti / AGF Michelle Murgia
Instead of making it an occasion to lament, the writer has drawn from it material not to fight – a reading she has not declared that she does not appreciate to tell the story of the disease – but rather to continue to tell: it was born Three Bowls, a novel in the form of a short story published by Mondadori, which will be presented in the Sala Oro on 19 May. With Chiara Tagliaferri Murgia will present the new edition of the podcast by Morgan.
Equally predictable, because it is a true tradition of the Salon, the queue of readers who will besiege Michele Reich, in art Zero limestone, who every year confirms himself stachanov of dedications, giving away a drawing to all the fans who crowd the Bao Publishing stand. Still on the subject of unwritten but drawn literature, Milo Manara will also be present at the Salone, with an illustrated version of The Name of the Rose.
© AGF Zero limestone 
Without a doubt, the professor is among the most awaited Italians Alessandro Barberoa much-loved popularizer bordering on idolatry, who will be the protagonist of various events, including the presentation of his Brick for Stone (Sellerio) on Saturday 20. Instead, he will dialogue with the two-time Witch Award Sandro Veronesi – another eagerly awaited author – on Sunday 21.
This year’s guest country is Albania, whose premier, Elva Margariti, wanted to express the closeness of her people to the Italian one. “It is a great occasion – she said – to show our Italian brothers literary Albania”.
There are 115 thousand square meters of exhibition space, divided between 573 stands, 48 rooms and 13 laboratories. More than 1,600 events planned at the Lingotto in Turin, plus the 600 that make up the Salone Off program. The first to inaugurate the different areas were respectively the President of the Senate Ignazio La Russa, who inaugurated the event in the Oval room together to the minister of culture Gennaro Sangiuliano, and the jurist Sabino Cassese who at 10.45 inaugurated the Bookstock arena, the space dedicated to children.
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