Nicola Gardini
XIV Settimana Della Lingua Italiana Nel Mondo
This year the World Italian Language Week (Settimana della Lingua Italiana nel Mondo), has been chosen by the Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs to promote the Italian Language throughout the world focusing on the theme: Scrivere la nuova Europa: editoria italiana, autori e lettori nell’era digitale.
Eugenio Montale famously stated that there is no Italian for poets to rely on. Every would-be poet must start all over again. Expanding on this extreme statement and focusing on his own experience as a writer and a teacher of literature at Oxford, Nicola Gardini will devote his talk to the beauties and challenges of Italian as a national and international language for writers today.
NICOLA GARDINI is the author of numerous books (novels, memoirs, poetry collections, literary essays, and translations from English, Latin and other languages). His novel Le Parole Perdute di Amelia Lynd received the prestigious Viareggio Prize in 2012, and will appear in America next year. His essay Lacuna, a very original discussion of omissions and silences in literature, is going to be published at the end of September. He teaches Italian Literature at the University of Oxford and is a Fellow of Keble College.
His official website is www.nicolagardini.com
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