Incroci di civiltà

Festival Internazionale
di Letteratura a Venezia
2 5 aprile 2025

Selby Wynn Schwartz United States

Thursday April 3 - 10.30 am

Auditorium Santa Margherita Emanuele Severino

Sappho's daughters: women's multiple identity

Selby Wynn Schwartz (United States)

converses with Mena Mitrano (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)

In collaboration with Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Culturali Comparati, Garzanti, THE NEW INSTITUTE Centre for Environmental Humanities (NICHE)

The conversation will be in English

Selby Wynn Schwartz, an activist and author of numerous literary criticism articles, holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley. She currently teaches creative writing at Stanford University. After Sappho is her debut novel. Hailed as “the best novel of the past year” by The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Independent, it was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2022. The novel tells the story of remarkable women in search of freedom and independence, who defy societal norms to pursue their dreams. Among them are Virginia Woolf, Natalie Barney, Romaine Brooks, Sarah Bernhardt, Isadora Duncan, Nancy Cunard, Gertrude Stein, and Radclyffe Hall.

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