Missed words: warning signs of the couple crisis
with Camilla Baresani and Diego De Silva
Presents Giovanna Di Giorgio
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Music:
- Domenico Ingenito (electric violin)
- Paolo Sessa (guitar)
- Where: Sala Pasolini
- When: 29 October, h 20:00
Description
Between words and music, the writers Camilla Baresani and Diego De Silva will talk with the journalist Giovanna Di Giorgio on the theme of the crisis and on the complex universe of romantic relationships, accompanied by Domenico Ingenito’s electric violin and Paolo Sessa’s guitar.
Guests Bio
CAMILLA BARESANI
Born in Brescia, she lives between Rome and Milan. She wrote the novels Il plagio (2000),
Sbadatamente ho fatto l’amore (2002), L’imperfezione dell’amore (2005), Un’estate fa (2010, Hemingway Award and Selection Award Rapallo), Il sale rosa dell’Himalaya (2014, Città di Vigevano Award and Cortina d’Ampezzo Award), Gli sbafatori (2015). She is also the author of the essay Il piacere tra le righe (2003), of the stories of TIC. Tipi Italiani Contemporanei (2006), of La cena delle meraviglie with the gourmet critic Allan Bay (2007) and of Vini, amori with Gelasio Gaetani d’Aragona (2014). Collaborates with the “Corriere della Sera” and with “Grazia”. She teaches creative writing at the Molly Bloom School.
DIEGO DE SILVA
Writer, successful screenplay writer, journalist, a past as a lawyer. Diego De Silva is one of the most interesting voices of contemporary Italian literature. For Einaudi he has published the novels La donna di riserva (2001), Certi bambini (2001, Campiello prize selection), Voglio Guardare (2002), Da un’altra carne (2004), Non avevo capito niente (2007, Premio Naples – Book of the year; Strega award finalist), Mia suocera beve (2010), Sono contrario alle emozioni (2011), Mancarsi (2013), Terapia di coppia per amanti (2015), Divorziare con stile (2017), Superficie (2018), I valori che contano (avrei preferito non scoprirli) (2020).
Certi bambini became a film in 2004 directed by Andrea and Antonio Frazzi, a film winner of the European Film Award and of two Davide di Donatello; from Terapia di coppia per amanti in 2017 a homonymous film was directed by Alessio Maria Federici.
His stories have appeared in the Deserters, Crimes and Italian Crimes anthologies. A collection of mystery stories was released in 2014 entitled Criminal Games, where his text Patrocinio gratuito appears alongside those of De Giovanni, De Cataldo and Lucarelli.
He collaborates with the newspaper Il Mattino, the weekly magazine L’Espresso and the cultural insert Tuttolibri of the newspaper La Stampa. He is working on new projects in the field of television drama.
His books are translated into England, France, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Greece, Israel, Serbia, USA.