Incroci di civiltà

Festival Internazionale
di Letteratura a Venezia
prossima edizione: 15 18 aprile 2026

Programme

Opening Ceremony

Wednesday April 2

- 5.30 pm

Auditorium Santa Margherita - Emanuele Severino

Institutional Greetings

  • Premio Cesare De Michelis
  • Premio giovani Incroci - Albero d'Oro
  • Premio Incroci - Musei Civici di Venezia

to follow

Hanif Kureishi online (Great Britain)

The conversation will be in Italian and in English

 Thursday April 3

- 10.30 am

Auditorium Santa Margherita - Emanuele Severino

Sappho’s daughters: women’s multiple identity

Selby Wynn Schwartz (United States)

The conversation will be in English

- 12.30 pm

Auditorium Santa Margherita - Emanuele Severino

The free voices of Afghani women

Zainab Entezar (Afghanistan)

The conversation will be in Dari-Farsi

to follow

Screening of the docufilm Shot the voice of freedom by Zainab Entezar

- 3.00 pm

‌‌Palazzo Barbarigo della Terrazza - Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani

Books make civilization

Juergen Boos (Germany)

The conversation will be in English

-  5.30 pm

Auditorium Santa Margherita - Emanuele Severino

Publishing: the pillar of democracy

Luiz Schwarcz (Brasil)

The conversation will be in English

- 7.30 pm

Auditorium Santa Margherita - Emanuele Severino

Politics, technology, and dictatorship in the contemporary world

Asma Mhalla (Tunisia - France)

Alexander Baunov (Russia)

The conversation will be in English

Friday April 4

- 9.30 am

Auditorium Santa Margherita - Emanuele Severino

Poets at Incroci: The free word

Rodolfo Häsler (Cuba)

José María Micó (Spain)

Nouri Al-Jarrah (Siria)

to follow

Nikola Madzirov (Macedonia)

Alan Whitehorn (Canada - Armenia)

- 3.00 pm

Auditorium Santa Margherita - Emanuele Severino

Books for loving

Manuel Vilas (Spain)

The conversation will be in Spanish

- 5.00 pm

Auditorium Santa Margherita - Emanuele Severino

Narrating at the borders

Esther Kinsky (Germany)

Federica Manzon (Italy)

The conversation will be in English

- 7.00 pm

Hotel Aquarius Venice

Geography – Culture: Introduction to the magazine “Mappe” (Touring Club Italiano)

Franco Farinelli (Italy)

The conversation will be in Italian

- 7.30 pm

Fondaco dei Tedeschi - DFS

Plural Africa

Fatin Abbas (Sudan - United States)

Elgas (France - Senegal)

The conversation will be in English

Saturday April 5

- 10.00 am

Fondazione Querini Stampalia

The Balkans and the agonies of History

Igor Štiks (Croatia)

The conversation will be in Croatian

- 12.00 pm

Fondazione Querini Stampalia

Laplands enchantments and sufferance

Petra Rautiainen (Finland)

The conversation will be in English

- 3.00 pm

Auditorium Santa Margherita - Emanuele Severino

Writing into the stone and harshness of World

Pierre Adrian (France)

The conversation will be in Italian

- 5.00 pm 

Auditorium Santa Margherita - Emanuele Severino

On the run: looking up at war and violence

Mathias Énard (France)

The conversation will be in Italian

- 7.00 pm 

Auditorium Santa Margherita - Emanuele Severino

The World that he has made: Daniele Del Giudice

Roberto Ferrucci (Italy)

Tiziano Scarpa (Italy)

The conversation will be in Italian

- 9.00 pm 

Auditorium Santa Margherita - Emanuele Severino

Of fathers and ghosts

Enrico Fink (Italy)

Ottavia Piccolo (Italy)

The conversation will be in Italian