2023-12-01 12:37:32
From 6 to 10 December Rome returns to be the capital of the word with the 22nd edition of Più libri liberi, national fair for small and medium publishing. Organized byItalian Publishers Association (AIE), the event will once again find space among the spectacular windows of La Nuvola dell’Eur where 594 exhibitors, coming from all over the country, they will present their news and their catalog to the public.
In five days more than 600 appointments to follow including presentations, readings, lectio magistralis, comparisons and debates, as well as meeting opportunities for professional operators, for an event which sees the support of the Center for books and reading of the Ministry of Culture, Lazio Region, Roma Capitale alongside the AIE , Rome Chamber of Commerce and ICE-Agency for the promotion abroad and the internationalization of Italian companies, with the contribution of SIAE. Created in collaboration with the Rome Library Institution, ATAC, EUR Spa and Dior, Più libripiù liberi 2023 takes advantage of Rai’s Main Media Partnership with the Giornale della Libreria and participates in Aldus Up, the European network of book fairs co-financed by European Union.
The theme for 2023 is NAMES THINGS CITIES ANIMALS, the title of a children’s game that invites maximum creativity, but the concrete scenario is that of small and medium-sized Italian publishing houses which in 2022 published 47,850 new releases, a slight decrease compared to the previous year (-0.6%), equal to to 59.3% of the overall editorial offer. There are now 5,022 active micro, small and medium publishing houses, -0.9% compared to 2021. The market share in 2022 was 49.2%.
The news
The curator Chiara Valerio recounted the themes of the event in “One letter leads to another”, the podcast produced by Zampediverse in 6 episodes, each dedicated to a letter, from which we started to play Nomi Cose Città Animali and talk about books, publishing and authors. Also new is the format “A not always fun thing I do every year”, reportage by Emmanuel Carbé who will travel around La Nuvola giving his impressions of the fair day after day. A news story that will become a story in Il Post.
Also arriving from Testo, the fair organized by Pitti in February at the Stazione Leopolda in Florence, is Radio Gridolini (Cloud version) created by Todo Modo. A broadcaster to tell what happens at the fair through interviews and insights.
UNIVERSITY STUDENTS! #piulibri23 offers a program aimed at you!
Bookable meetings on contemporary themes, including reflections and lectio magistralis, featuring some well-known faces from the world of culture.
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— More free books (@piulibri23) November 27, 2023
Giveaways and participants
Also in 2023, Più libri Più libero will pay homage Andrea Camilleri with an unpublished reading by Neri Marcorè, while a series of meetings will be dedicated to Italo Calvino on the occasion of the centenary of his birth. Even memory dGigi Projects will find space through the presentation of a docu-book by Claudio Pallottini. To close the fair, a meeting will remember the figure of Michela Murgia with the video testimonies of the Purple Squares and the personal ones of many writers who will talk about her, her books and the themes that were dearest to her.
Among the most anticipated foreign guests at the fair are the Brazilian documentary maker and author Eliane Brum, the Mexicans Brenda Navarro and Anabel Hernandez, the Dutch Ian Brokken, the Americans Christopher Paolini and Margo Jefferson, the Croatian Robert Perisić, the Ghanaian Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah , , the English Sally Bayley and Maggie Nelson. A treat will be offered by Merlin Holland, the only direct descendant of Oscar Wilde, who will present the book Being the Son of Oscar Wilde written by his father Vyvyan Holland.
Given their very high number, it is impossible to mention the names of all the Italian participants/guests, but in the guise of presenters of their own texts or speakers of other people’s works in the rooms of La Nuvola, among others, writers such as Alessandro Barbero, Luciano Canfora, Paolo Giordano, Erri de Luca, Edoardo Nesi, Nicola Lagioia, Marco Malvaldi will speak. , Antonio Manzini, Paolo Di Paolo, Giulia Caminito, Alessandro Mari and Melania Mazzucco; journalists/authors such as Corrado Augias, Adriano Sofri, Marco Damilano, Gian Antonio Stella, Luca Telese and Marino Sinibaldi; cartoonists such as Zero Calcare, Gipi, Fumettibrutti and Disegno; rappers like Rancore and transversal personalities like Patrick Zaki, Elly Schlein, Vittorio Sgarbi, Maurizio Landini, Roberto Gualtieri, Giovanni Maria Flick, Massimiliano Fuksas, Claudio Gregori (Greg), Valerio Lundini and Serena Dandini Events | More free books (plpl.it).
The more words you have, the fewer hands you raise!#25November2023 pic.twitter.com/smoNRg7eZK
— Libraries of Rome (@BibliotecheRoma) November 25, 2023
Insights
Among the sections of the program, “Writers talking about writers” is a new formula for describing the authors we love through the words of their “colleagues” (Mario Desiati will talk about Fleur Jaeggy, Djarah Kan about Franzt Fanon and Joseph Conrad, Nadia Terranova about Jane Austen, Gaja Cenciarelli about Margaret Atwood, Marina Pierri about Elena Ferrante, Carola Susani by Alberto Moravia, Viola Ardone by Julio Cortázar, Teresa Ciabatti by Joan Didion, Vanni Santoni by Roberto Bolaño, Donatella Di Pietrantonio by Emmanuel Carrère, Serena Dandini by Eve Babitz and Elena Stancanelli by Jean Rhys).
Con University More free books will be enriched with a series of meetings dedicated to young people on the in-depth study of academic topics, while for the strip Science Italian and foreign experts will lead the public along those paths of awareness of the rules of the world that allow the elevation of human consciousness. Finally, the big meetings of the section Parole (ranging from Maria Grazia Chiuri of Dior to Teresa Cremisi, from Marco Bellocchio to the rapper Piotta), and also the events of Utopia, Newspapers, Rome, Comics and Graphic Novels, Ragazzi, Premi, up to those of the Institutions and the Professional Center .
The event is chaired by Annamaria Malato and directed by Fabio Del Giudice. The program is curated by Chiara Valerio.
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