Posts Tagged ‘scritture giovani’

Riluoghi: Festivaletteratura in Mantua

-> Riluoghi: Festivaletteratura in Mantua

The Literature Festival in Mantua (Italy) just started. Among the many meetings between writers and public (more than 200) and the myriad of initiatives that will be taking place in only 5 days in Mantua (from September 7th to 11th) a pivotal role in this special event is played by the places. Every single corner of the city is full of history a...

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4am: a creative hour?

-> 4am: a creative hour?

4am. The middle of the night. Or of the morning, depending how you look at it. The darkest hour, the hour most people are likely to be asleep (unless they are insomiacs or architects, in which case they are up working). 4am is the theme assigned for the 2009 “Scritture giovani”, a young writers’ prize supported by illy and a project of...

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1000 strokes

Magazine -> #6 Orientation

illy offers its support to Scritture Giovani and the Festivaletteratura Mantova with the aim of providing opportunities, stimulating discussion and encouraging dialogue. “Do you think one is willing to cross conventional boundary lines when their objectives that lies beyond is clear?” Border crossing is actually easier tackled when what lie...

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Scritture giovani, a new generation of european writers

Magazine -> #2 Creating Opportunities

Four young writers talking about writing's timetables and scoreboards. WHEN DO YOU WRITE, IN YOUR DAILY LIFE? DO YOU CUT OUT A FIXED PERIOD OR DOES WRITING END UP MERGING WITH YOUR DAILY ACTIVITIES? Davide Longo - I'm a teacher and during the school year I write very little, a couple of novels at the most, something for the radio, I help out ...

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  • "Where I am, makes me what I am"

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    Martin Luther King

  • "Liberty is about our rights to question everything".

    Ai Wei Wei

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Twenty thousand leagues under the sea by Jules Verne (1825-1905). This book is the answer to my thoughts on travel. It certainly anticipated the saga...
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