Borgo Propizio by Loredana Limone
Read in Irish by Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh
Words on the Street Thursday 15th of May @ 6.30pm-9.30pmEleven Countries, Eleven Voices, Eleven Venues, One Great EveningA bright spring evening wandering around Nassau Street and the surrounding areas in Dublin listening to well known Irish people evoking life in modern Europe – maybe stopping for a drink on the way … does that sound enticing?Words on the Street – European Literature Night will happen in cities across Europe on the same night.In Dublin well known Irish people will read contemporary writing from eleven European countries in eleven venues, many of which are unusual and not normally easily accessible to the public.Readings will take place every 30 minutes from 6.30pm to 9.30pmTo represent ITALY, a chapter from the novel Borgo Propizio from Loredana Limone – translated into Irish – will be read by the TV presenter and Gaeilgeoir Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh. The location of the reading will be the Freemasons’ Hall on Molesworth Street.Loredana Limone, Neapolitan by birth and Milanese by adoption, wrote a dozen books ranging from fairy tales tom gastronomy before making her debut in fiction with Borgo Propizio (Guanda, 2012 – TEA, 2013). Her novel received special mention at the 2012 Fellini Award, has been translated in Spain and is soon to be translated in Germany and Bulgaria. It is the first instalment in a trilogy, and its sequel is being published by Salani. Loredana set up and runs the creative gourmet-writing workshop Sapori Letterari, for which she has edited, and contributed to, the eponymous anthology featuring a preface by Allan Bay. Borgo Propizio has been defined as “a great literary fiction on Italian provincial life, human feelings and positivity”, a “therapeutic world-universe, a modern fairy-tale, a novel able to defeat bad mood”. Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh is a well known TV presenter and Gaeilgeoir. She has presented Echo Island, The Afternoon Show and Charity ICA Bootcamp. She was a judge in The All Ireland Talent Show and participated in Celebrity Bainisteoir.The Freemasons’ Hall was purpose-built in 1869 as a permanent home for the Grand Lodge of Freemasons of Ireland. With its rich decorative style, Freemasons’ Hall is one of Dublin’s best-kept architectural secrets.To access the text in Irish, please click here.To access the original Italian text, please click here.