link: www.incrocidicivilta.org
Join the Venice literary festival (May 19/22 2010), where writers from all over the world talk of their works, cultures and experiences with scholars, journalists and common readers.
Héctor Abad, André Aciman, Hoda Barakat, Tishani Doshi, Marcello Fois, Antonio Franchini, Jennifer Johnston, Randal Keynes, Alberto Manguel, Anthony Phelps, Yu Qun, Alka Saraogi, Tiziano Scarpa, Vikram Seth, Masahiko Shimada, Mikhail Shishkin, Ko Un, Fariba Vafi, Zhu Wen, Zoë Wicomb, Jeanette Winterson, Hong Ying
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The Comune di Venezia is thus making its expertise in reception, hospitality and culture available for the third consecutive year, and Ca’ Foscari University is placing its academic excellence and the cosmopolitan breadth of its studies at the service of the public: an important, joint effort to promote an international event. Writing is the starting point for discussing the most urgent topics of contemporary life within the global perspective that typifies Venetian history, confirming the city’s role as a virtuous interchange for numerous trajectories and creative experiences, and meetings and exchanges between societies. This third festival is again confirmed as a place for the study and comparison of different cultures: 22 guest writers from 16 countries who, over four days, will contrast cultures, writing, physical and mental geographies, drawing up a fascinating and highly articulate map of the meetings of civilisations and of individual and collective experiences.
