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Librissimi virtuale 2020 May 9 - 1 to 5 pm

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Book Presentation “La Nuda Eleganza”: un viaggio fotografico

nella memoria Festival letterario IDEA Boston

Saturday May 9th - 1 pm

“La Nuda Eleganza nasce dal rimpianto”, dice il fotografo Romeo Civilli, “di non aver mai chiesto a mia madre di parlarmi della sua giovinezza”. Questo ha spinto Civilli a raccogliere testimonianze di persone che gli hanno aperto non solo la porta di casa, ma del loro cuore. Ne è emersa una raccolta che rende onore ai nostri anziani, destinata alle generazioni future e alle comunità italiane nel mondo, che in quegli uomini e donne fondano le proprie radici.

Romeo Civilli, originario di Pontecagnano, Salerno, è un fotografo e artista multiforme, che viaggia per il mondo catturando con il suo obiettivo quelle che lui definisce pure ‘emozioni’. Da anni si dedica a reportage a sfondo umanitario, come ad esempio quello nei campi profughi Sharawi. Tra un viaggio e l’altro, in cinque anni ha realizzato il libro fotografico “La Nuda Eleganza”, una raccolta di immagini e pensieri di 100 persone vissute durante la seconda guerra mondiale.

Nicola Orichuia è giornalista e imprenditore culturale. Nel 2015 ha fondato la libreria italo-americana I AM Books, nel quartiere North End di Boston, e nel 2018 ha lanciato il festival letterario “IDEA Boston”, che celebra letteratura e cultura italiana e italo-americana. Tra il 2012 e il 2016 è stato direttore del Bostoniano, una rivista cartacea mensile rivolta alla comunità italo-americana di Boston, di cui era stato anche il fondatore. Originario di Roma, Nicola si è trasferito negli Stati Uniti nel 2008.

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MODERATOR Michela Di Marco, nata a Salerno e residente a Toronto dal 2013, consegue la prima laurea in Scienze Politiche, seguita dal Master in Relazioni Internazionali presso l’Università di Toronto. Dal 2017 è Presidente del Com.It.es di Toronto, e dal 2019 Presidente dell’Intercomites Canada. Lavora nel campo del not for profit, e siede nel Cultural Council Board di Villa Charities Inc. Opera al servizio della comunità canadese con passione e ardore. CON LA PARTECIPAZIONE DI Daniela Sanzone, giornalista e educatrice. Nel 2017 è stato pubblicato suo primo romanzo, La Guerra secondo Michele, Ed. Pagine. Oltre a teorie e pratiche pedagogiche alla York University di Toronto, Daniela insegna all’Istituto Italiano di Cultura e fa parte del Board of Directors dell’Accademia dei Ragazzi. Nel 2000 si è trasferita da Roma a Toronto, dove ha lavorato al Corriere Canadese e al telegiornale OMNI News come anchor, on-air host e producer.

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PANEL Queer and Italian Canadian

Saturday May 9th – 2 PM



Four writers discuss their experiences as members of the LGBTQ+ Italian-Canadian community and the importance of writing and literature in their lives. These writers also appear in the documentary Queer and Italian Canadian. The Association of Italian Canadian Writers (AICW) and the Queer Studies in Quebec Research Group (ÉRÉQQ) have joined forces to present this panel, which aims to broaden the understanding and increase sensibility towards queer identities and everyday lived realities.

Elena Basile teaches at York University and the University of Toronto, collaborating regularly with artists and academics in Italy, France and Canada. Her poetry is featured in Three Women: Adapting Lives Adopting Lines (Monti, 2010). Among her inter-media collaborations is the TiP Lab, an affective mapping of the city (Crocker Gallery, 2015; Myseum Intersections Festival 2018).

Domenic Beneventi is a Professor of English and Comparative Canadian Literature at the Université de Sherbrooke. He is the director of the Queer Studies in Quebec Research Group (ÉRÉQQ) and co-editor of Contested Spaces: Counter-Narratives and Culture From Below (UToronto Press, 2017) and La lutte pour l’espace (PULaval, 2017).

Christopher DiRaddo is the author of The Geography of Pluto (2014) and If We Were Fathers, out next year from Véhicule Press. Over the last five years he has worked to create a space for LGBTQ literature in Montreal—producing and hosting the Violet Hour reading series, as well as programming Violet Metropolis, the LGBTQ leg of Montreal’s Blue Metropolis Literary Festival.

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MODERATOR Elio Iannacci is an award-winning journalist, editor and writer. His work has been published, among others, in Maclean's, The Globe and Mail, Quill & Quire, Elle France, Xtra and The Hollywood Reporter and he has been an editor for magazines such as FASHION, FLARE, and INSIGHT. Included in his list of profiles are Aretha Franklin, Sophia Loren, Camille Paglia and Karl Lagerfeld. He has also served as a jury member for the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers.

HOST Licia Canton has published 12 books, including The Pink House and Other Stories (2018) and Almond Wine and Fertility (2008), published in Italy as Vino alla mandorla e fertilità (2015). A literary and self-translator, her writing appears in French, Chinese, Italian and dialect. Co-founder of Accenti Magazine, she holds a Ph.D. from Université de Montréal and an M.A. from McGill University.

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In Conversation with Nino Ricci

Saturday May 9th – 3 pm

Nino Ricci’s first novel, Lives of the Saints, garnered international acclaim, appearing in 17 countries and winning a host of awards, including the Governor General's Award for Fiction. It formed the first volume of a trilogy that was adapted as a miniseries starring Sophia Loren. Ricci is also the author of the novels Testament, winner of the Trillium Award, and The Origin of Species, which earned him a second Governor General’s Award, and of the biography Pierre Elliott Trudeau, part of Penguin’s Extraordinary Canadians series. His most recent novel is Sleep, winner of the Canadian Authors’ Award for Fiction. Ricci holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Windsor and is a past president of PEN Canada. In 2011 he was appointed a member of the Order of Canada. He has taught at institutions across North America, including Colorado College and Princeton University, and is currently the inaugural holder of Western University’s Alice Munro Chair in Creativity.

Between the first and the most recent of Nino Ricci’s novels takes shape the trajectory of an exploration of humanity and Italian Canadian identity. From little Vincenzo’s troubled voyage to Canada in Lives of the Saints to David Pace’s descent into darkness in Sleep, tormented characters vividly reach out to the readers shaking comforting notions of family and society.

MODERATOR Happie Testa is the Founder and Artistic Director of Librissimi – Toronto Italian Book Festival. In 2010 she opened her first bookstore followed in 2015 by Librairie Mosaique French bookstore. She is a member of Com.It.Es Toronto and serves on the Board of Directors of Accademia dei Ragazzi, and of Salon du livre de Toronto. In a previous life she was a journalist, writer and marketer.

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Book Presentation: The Transaction

Saturday May 9th – 4 pm

THE TRANSACTION by Guglielmo D’Izzia Guernica Editions, 2020 A property harbouring a gruesome secret goes up for sale. Two men--perhaps, the wrong men--are shot in plain daylight. Nothing is what it seems. And matters do not turn out as anticipated. De Angelis, an inscrutable northerner, is travelling to a small town perched somewhere in Sicily's hinterland to negotiate a real estate transaction, only to find himself embroiled in a criminal conspiracy.

Guglielmo D’Izzia hails from Sicily. He’s an actor and a writer. His artistic pursuits have led him to some of the greatest cities in the world: Rome, New York, and eventually Toronto, where he now resides. The Transaction, his debut novel, won the 2016 Marina Nemat Award.

MODERATOR Giuseppe Cafiso, nato a Toronto e vissuto in Italia e in Canada, si è laureato all’Università di Toronto in Storia e ha conseguito il Master in Italiano. Ha insegnato Storia, Diritto e Letteratura inglese per il Toronto Catholic District School Board, assumendo poi l’incarico di Vice-preside e Preside in diverse scuole. Attualmente è Direttore dell’ICFF Youth, festival annuale di cinema internazionale per ragazzi.

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Book Presentation Where Angels Come to Earth, an evocation of the

Italian piazza Saturday May 9th – 5 pm

Longbridge Books, 2019 Where Angels Come to Earth, an evocation of the Italian piazza – Vincenzo Pietropaolo and Mark Frutkin. A unique volume combining photographs by a highly respected documentary photographer and lyrical prose by an award-winning author. The presentation will offer a series of screens showing a selection of photos from the book by Pietropaolo. While these are on screen, Frutkin will read texts appropriate to each photo, offering a clear view of the book.

Mark Frutkin has published seventeen books of fiction, poetry and nonfiction, including The Rising Tide (Porcupine’s Quill, 2018). His novel, Fabrizio’s Return (Knopf), won the Trillium Award and the Sunburst Prize, and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize. His novel, Atmospheres Apollinaire, was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award.

One of Canada’s pre-eminent documentary photographers, Vincenzo Pietropaolo is recognized internationally for his work on social justice issues. He has authored or co-authored twelve books of photographs, and his photography is a feature exhibition at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. He was born in Calabria, Italy, and raised in Toronto, where he still lives.

MODERATOR Domenic Cusmano is a journalist, communication professional and educator. He is founder and publisher of Longbridge Books, dedicated to the publication of works of fiction and non-fiction that promote cultural diversity. He is also a co-founder of Accenti Magazine. He is currently working on a short story collection.

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