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This year Lodi also has its own literary festival, and what a festival! From 13 to 16 June first edition of “The River of Books”, promoted by the Municipality of Lodi, which will be held in the central Piazza della Vittoria with a program that will see high-calibre authors. First event on June 13th at 7.00 pm with Giulia Ichino, editor of Bompiani, who will talk with Ilaria Rossetti, author of The Girls’ Factory, the story of the massacres of female workers in a munitions factory in Bollate in 1918.
The 2019 Strega Prize closes the evening at 8pm, Antonio Scurati with Fascism and populism. Mussolini today (Bompiani). Interviewed by Roberto Arditti, journalist..
We return to the square on Friday 14th with Chiara Valeriodirector of Più Libri Più Liberi – the national fair for small and medium-sized publishing – and today a finalist in the Premio Strega with Who says and who is silent (Sellerio), in dialogue with Riccardo Cavallero on the passions, anxieties, truths, enigmas, silences of the present and the din of the past that animate his latest novel. Following, at 8.00 pm, Maurizio De Giovanni, writer, playwright and journalist, presents his latest novel Rain (Einaudi).
The participation of the last Campiello Prize is expected on Saturday 15 June at 11.30 am, Benedetta Tobagi, interviewed by Luca Pagni, journalist. With his latest book The massacres are all a mystery (Laterza), we will try to understand the common thread that unites the darkest moments of our Republic, from Piazza Fontana to today.
At 6.30pm Lorenzo Rinaldi, director of The citizenwill present Mike Maric, with If I breathe I can (ROI editions). World record holder in freediving, he also trained champions such as Federica Pellegrini and Filippo Magnini. A nice opportunity to talk about water and to listen to an expert on the topic of improving one’s health starting from breathing. Also on Saturday at 7.00 pm there will be Roberto Saviano with We two belong together. Sex, love, violence, betrayal in the life of bosses (Out of scene). Men with a heart of darkness, women who no longer appear as simple followers of the boss on duty but are transformed from victims to executioners, from bringers of salvation to diabolical murderers. Roberto Saviano will talk about it with the director of Fanpage.itFrancesco Cancellato,
Sunday 16 June at 6.00 pm Tommaso Premoli and the writer Andrea Maietti will host an important meeting for the city of Lodi: “The Adda is the most beautiful river in the world: because it is beautiful and because it is mine”. A monologue by Fabio Genovesi, writer, screenwriter and translator. Literary voice of the Giro d’Italia and the Tour de France, Genovesi will talk about the world of cycling. The festival will close Fabio Volo with Everything is here for you. Desires, love, loneliness, getting involved. The author will talk about it with Riccardo Cavallero.