Incroci di civiltà

Festival Internazionale
di Letteratura a Venezia
2 5 aprile 2025

Tiziano Scarpa Italy

Saturday April 5  - 7.00 pm

Auditorium Santa Margherita - Emanuele Severino

Tiziano Scarpa

Roberto Ferrucci (Italy)

converse with Alessandro Cinquegrani (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)

In collaboration with Giulio Einaudi Editore, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici

The conversation will be in Italian

Tiziano Scarpa, born in Venice in 1963, is a novelist, playwright, poet and performer. He published his first novel, Occhi sulla graticola, in 1996; since then he has written about 30 works including novels, collections of short stories, essays, poems, and dramas. His best-known books are Stabat Mater (2008), which won the Strega prize in 2009, his poem Groppi d'amore nella scuraglia (2005), the collection of aphorisms, Corpo (2004), his literary guide Venezia è un pesce (2001; new and updated edition, 2020), and his collections of poems, Le nuvole e i soldi (2018), Una libellula di città e altre storie in rima (2018) and La verità e la biro (2023). His works are translated in most European languages, as also in Chinese, Japanise, Russian, Arabic, Jewish, and Turkish. He contributed to several newspapers; authored radio programmes such as Pop corn (1997) and La musica nascosta (2008); founded the cultural sites Nazione indiana in 2003 and Primo amore in 2006. He worked on a stage and in public performances as play reader, also accompanied by musicians such as Debora Petrina, Massimo Donà, Banda Osiris, Enrico Rava, Marlene Kuntz, Laura Catrani, Stefano Bollani.

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