AND Alessandro D’Avenia with the book He resists, heart – the Odyssey and the art of being mortal (Mondadori) to inaugurate Tuesday, June 17th to Nardò the fifteenth edition of the “Salento Book Festival” which stops this year in Thirteen Salento municipalities Until September.
The itinerant literary event organized by the National Book Cultural Association is conceived and directed by the journalist and TV author Gianpiero Pisanello, This year with the collaboration of Antonella Lattanzi and Massimo Bernardini.
They have chosen to offer their gaze to the Salento Book 2025, a festival they know and follow from the first editions and of which they have already been guests in the past. This time, as artistic co-director, they will sign appointments in particular, also leading them: Antonella Lattanzi On 20 September he will present the book Annalena (Einaudi) of the writer, journalist and director of the Turin International Book Fair, Annalena Benini, and Massimo BernardiniInstead, he will lead the evenings of June 24 with Myrta Merlino and Marco Tardelli and on June 25 with Federico Baccomo.
The Apulian review linked to books, throughout the summer (and beyond!) It will bring between squares, gardens, castles and belvedere on the sea some of the most loved writers and writers, but also professionals and personalities from the world of journalism, culture, music, sport, entertainment that present their editorial works.
This year “The book festival, the nightlife of readers” makes a stop to Aradeo, Castrignano dei Greci, Collepasso, Corigliano d’Otranto, Cutrofiano, Galatone, Gallipoli, Muro Leccese, Nardò, Neviano, Racale, Specchia and Tricase, All in the province of Lecce, to which is added a special appointment in the historic Candido 1859 stores of Maglie (LE) and another outside Salento, at the headquarters of the Puglia Regional Council, in Bari, in November.
The SBF is characterized from the origins for a program capable of reaching different public and alternating the reflection on the most discussed issues of the year, on social and civil rights, on politics, on more or less recent history, and entertainment.
AND “A festival for all and for everyone “, As the Claim 2025 recalls, remembering the story of an iconic review and with an always simple and recognizable format that leads to the public squares, books, authors and stories.
The authors 2025
As Alessandro D’Avenia who explores the adventure that each of us is called to do in search of his own Ithaca too Nicola Lagioia Through literature, it goes into the folds of the human soul, scandling the most inclined part to destruction with “war as a disease of the species”.
We continue to talk about conflicts with Gad Lerner who in his book “Gaza. Hate and love for Israel” (Feltrinelli) enters the heart of suffering that has been accompanied by Israelis and Palestinians for decades. On the thread of history also the book of Lorenzo Tosawhich tells “The train of memory” (De Agostini) with the founder of the project that has brought the boys and girls to Auschwitz Paolo Paticchio, and the novels of Walter Veltroni and Chiara Francini, Centered on two valiant female figures of the Resistance.
To women, the SBF dedicates a full -bodied space: Myrta Merlin he collected the rumors of those who challenged the storm, Federico Baccomo he imagined what would happen if the abortion law was canceled, Serena Dandini and Annalena Benini they focus on the life of two girls who grew up one in the 1960s and the other in the seventies, while Concita De Gregorio and Chiara Maci They turn on a light in the relationships between mothers and daughters.
Of brothers and sisters, on the other hand, deals Massimo Recalcati, Psychoanalyst and essayist. Among the guests also the world champion with the 1982 football national team Marco Tardelli, the actor Alessandro Gassman, actively engaged for the environment, Antonio Caprarica with a new chapter on the royalty of England, e Luca Bianchini, Historical presence at the SBF, which pending the publication of the new book, retraces the successes of the previous ones between stories, characters and emotions.
Space for justice with the testimonies of the magistrates aNtonio Ingroia, Francesco Mandoi, Pietro Grasso and Nicola Gratteri, At the forefront in the fight against crime and the mafia, with its intertwining with the policy also present in the novel of Maurizio MannonI, where it lengthens the tentacles in the dynamic dynamics of power in television journalism. And the plots of the novels of Chiara Valerio, Gabriella Genisi and Ilaria Ferramosca.
There is no lack of lightness in this edition with the comedy of Luciana Littizzetto, Federico Basso and the couple Nuzzo and Biase Together on the SBF stage with “Living life is a child game? Beppe Severgnini accompanies readers in the art of aging with philosophy.
From philosophy to spirituality with Aldo Cazzullo who enters the life of Francesco d’Assisi, with the bishop Vito Angiuli in that of Don Tonino Bello and with Don Luigi Epicoco, which proposes a journey through the pages of the Gospel of Marco.
We think of cyberspazio, artificial intelligence and disinformation with Michele Zizza, of communication, manipulation and complexity of reality, on the other hand, with Simona Ruffini. With Massimo Cannoletta Around the world is made, with Massimo Andolfi In a Naples without stereotypes and with GIancarlo de Pascalis In Galatina, in the Basilica of Santa Caterina.
We remain in Salento with Mavi Ferramosca and Antonio Serravezza who present their fantasy, Carlo De Michele who leads readers between body and body and Fabio Manni who tells the stories of those who continue the school during hospitalization.
