The Italian Institute of Culture takes part to the International Literature Festival Dublin 2022 with two prestigious events sponsored and co-organized by this institute, taking place on Saturday May 28th.
The first appointment, titled “Fragments of the Whole: Marta Barone & Claire-Louise Bennett”, will take place at the Le Fanu area in Merrion Square at 1.45pm.
The two writers will explore the ways in which memories, images, and literature itself – shape the lives of their characters.
We tell stories in order to survive – and we remember in order to live. The female protagonists created by two authors, Marta Barone and Claire-Louise Bennett, are painfully, compelling evocative of this, as they learn to read the traumas of their experiences and memories. In Marta’s Sunken City, a young woman searches for the story of her elusive father’s life, lost in one of the darkest periods of Italy’s national history. In Checkout 19, Claire-Louise’s latest novel, another young woman reflects on the incidental yet pivotal moments that have shaped her life, and the ways in which books have saved her.
Marta Barone is Turin-born translator and editor. Sunken City has been shortlisted for the Strega Prize, and has won the Vittorini and Fiesole Prizes. Marta is also the author of several books for children.
Claire-Louise Bennett studied literature and drama at the University of Roehampton before moving to Ireland. Her debut work, Pond, was published in 2015 and was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize the following year.
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