2023-04-21 11:47:40
Modena BUK Festival returns with its 16th edition on Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 May, in the heart of the city at the Chiostro di San Paolo, and celebrates its new spring of bibliodiversity with great news, the awarding of the BUK Festival 2023 Special Prize to writer Maurizio De Giovanni, celebrated signature of the Italian thriller and beloved author for the many characters who have sparked the imagination and touched the hearts of readers, successfully projecting themselves into a television dimension that has made them extraordinarily popular, from Commissioner Ricciardi to Mina Settembre.
«An Award – explains the artistic director of BUK Festival Francesco Zarzana, president of the ProgettArte Cultural Association which promotes and organizes BUK – which looks primarily at the writing of Maurizio De Giovanni, capable of giving shape, vividness and depth to the characters and plots, defining them with intense lightness and through an unmistakable style. A Prize, then – the reasons state – which recognizes the peculiar, and wholly authorial ability to reserve for its readers a privileged observatory from which to follow the evolution of each figure in the plot, from inner dialogues to encounters, choices and trials that life constantly presents and around which we are all called to question ourselves. A multifaceted stage that transforms the reader into the writer’s companion, making him feel, page after page, an empathetic apprentice of a masterful demiurge of words, emotions and feelings.
The BUK Festival Special Prize, which in the past edition was awarded to the writer Donatella Di Pietrantonio, will be delivered to Maurizio De Giovanni on the occasion of the BUK Festival 2023 Preview event, the Gala Evening scheduled for Thursday 4 May, at 8.30 pm in the holm oak room. For the occasion, the writer will talk about his works and his protagonists with the author Giusella De Maria.
Maurizio De Giovanni was born in Naples in 1958. He wrote the bestselling series of Commissario Ricciardi, Bastardi di Pizzofalcone and Mina Settembre. His latest books are “The Equation of the Heart” (Mondadori, 2022) and “Caminito. An April of Commissioner Ricciardi” (Einaudi). The Councilor for Culture of the Municipality of Modena Andrea Bortolamasi underlines that «the season of cultural festivals in the city continues: BUK is now a consolidated appointment, which allows small and medium-sized publishing to find an important limelight and offers the city moments of meeting with authors and writers”.
Promoted as always by ProgettArte under the artistic direction of Francesco Zarzana, on the weekend of 6 and 7 May, at the Chiostro di San Paolo in Modena, BUK will host a selection of publishing houses representing small and medium national publishing, and will propose a of meetings with authors from all over Italy, dedicated to the new seasonal releases.
Also this year BUK Festival is realized thanks to a large team of institutions, with the support of the Modena Foundation, the Municipality of Modena, Alda (Association Européenne de la Democratie Local based at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg), Bper Banca and Cna, with the patronage of the Emilia Romagna Region, the Chamber of Commerce, Assicoop and Modenamoremio, under the auspices of the Center for Books and Reading of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage. Afterwards, in the first half of July 2023 in Modena and Sassuolo, the 4th edition of the BUK Film Festival will take place, with new proposals, productions and hospitality between feature films and shorts.
During the two days of Buk Festival, from 11.30 to 20, the local Major Tom, partner of the festival, will host Daniele Reponi from Modena. Part innkeeper, part butcher, the non-chef of Modena sandwiches will prepare tasty specialties for all those who come to the venue for the event. Furthermore, on Saturday 6th, Buk will be a stage for the Lambruscolonga Brunch, an initiative connected to the famous wine-sensory itinerary that winds its way through the streets of the historic center and among the most prestigious clubs for two days.
MODENA BUK FESTIVAL 2023, I TEMI EI PROTAGONISTI
The news of small and medium-sized national publishing, the latest releases from Progettarte Edizioni, but not only. Modena BUK Festival will, as always, be an observatory on the themes and trends of writing in our time, on the “new springs” – this is the thematic thread – which stimulate knowledge and reflections. Special attention will be dedicated to women and gender issues throughout the world, with a European conference on the theme “Femme et diversite. Inclusion, rights and gender equality”, promoted by Alda, the European Association for Local Democracy Conference with the participation of Camilla Vedovato, projet manager Thematic Hub “Gender, Inclusion and Human Rights”, of Vittorina Maestroni of the Women’s Documentation Center and of Leila Aoujdad, President of “Femme et Diversité”. A bridge between Italy and France to understand what actions are being carried out in Europe on gender equality and women’s rights.
The female question will also reverberate in the books, of course, starting with the new collection by the French-Algerian poet Hamid Larbi, one of the most authoritative voices of international poetry: “The reflections of the verb” will be released by Progettarte Edizioni on May 6 and will be presented at BUK on the same day at 3.30pm. Hamid Larbi, an Algerian naturalized Frenchman, will talk about himself at BUK as a symbol of the commitment to women’s emancipation. In the translation by Lucrezia Lenti for Progettarte, Hamid Larbi’s verses will bring us back to the most vivid current events and to the cry of pain of many women in Afghanistan, Iran and elsewhere in the world. Hamid Larbi in January 2018 received the Concours International de Poésie, L’amour de la liberté from the European Academy of Sciences, Art and Words in France. He is a member of the Movimento Poetas del Mundo and in 2020, precisely for the collection “The reflections of the verb”, he received the Honor Award from the Society of Poets of France.
Bibliodiversity remains the key word of BUK, declined this year to women – but not only – through the focus with widely known writers such as Mariagiovanna Luini and Sara Bilotti. The first returns to speak of a theme that is dear to her with the book just given to the press for Mondadori, “Don’t speak (badly) of Love”: and she does it with all the necessary care, inspired both by her professional practice and from his spiritual path. No one dares to mention love in vain, the author explains, because words could limit its hidden power and healing intent. and because chatter and control are on the contrary enemies of love, underlines Luini who for years has been using his high medical-surgical and research skills to accompany readers and patients on a path that pursues healing through a self-centered approach. The very latest publication, the result of ProgettArte’s editorial commitment, is also following this path, the ebook “Make your life a work of art” by the martial arts expert and masso-therapeutic practice Luca Macovazzi. Coming out on April 19 and available to everyone in one click, the book is a real self-knowledge manual, a tool for removing the obstacles that complicate one’s own realization and the goal of a conscious and happy life. A BUK Festival will be presented on Saturday 6 May, at 7 pm in the Sala del Leccio, in a scenic conversation animated by the readings of the Italian-Argentine actress and director Marcela Serli. Again a focus on women with another great protagonist, the author Sara Bilotti, master of the psychological thriller, who has recently returned to readers with an overwhelming novel, “Eden” (HarperCollins), which presents itself on Saturday 6 May at 6 pm and which, page after page, he knows how to drag into the maelstrom of obsession and passion, erotic and artistic. And it is signed by the author Laura Daniele, for Kinetès, the collection of short stories “Mentite spoglie”, to be released on May 5 with a national preview at Modena BUK Festival: Festival du Premier Roman Chambery Award, Laura Daniele delivers to readers twelve short stories “of false appearances”, an extraordinary gallery of women and men of our time, suspended between irony and anguish, resentment and revenge, between fears, obsessions and flashes of ingenious survival.
Among the Modenese authors there is anticipation for two previews that will see the light in Buk, such as “The beak of the seagull”, a series of intrigues that intertwine in the new literary effort by Mario Ventura, and “The ten lives of Mister Urick ” by Sergio Greco, who tells how love for one’s dog becomes an opportunity to enter the magical world of pets. The two books are branded Progettarte Edizioni. Another interesting focus will be on disability on Sunday morning with the presentation of the book Gregorio’s Magic Antennas (among the authors the Modenese psychiatrist Camillo Valgimigli and Gregorio’s father, Gianni Ricci) who will talk about disability not only theoretically but also concretely through the reference to real experiences told by parents of special children. Also on Sunday morning, another international moment with a round table to be held in English entitled Home, a choral reflection on the home as a place that is dear to us and that welcomes us, through different voices, cultures and languages. By Modena International Friends. Alessia Marzotto, junior Project Manager of SHAPE “SHaring Actions for Participation and Empowerment of migrant communities and Local Authorities” of Alda will participate.
The novelty of the extension of Saturday hours will allow 8.30 pm to remember the teacher Adriana Querzè, in an evening of words and memories to keep alive the memory of a great woman who knew how to combine political commitment and attention to the world of school and young people .
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