School of Languages,Literatures and Cultures

Italian Studies

Narrative and Poetic Explorations between Body and Mind: An Encounter with Valerio Magrelli

Programme

6:00 pm: Welcome (Professor Paolo Bartoloni, NUIG, Head of Italian Studies)

6:10 pm: Introducing Valerio Magrelli (Mario Inglese, NUIG, Research Scholar, Italian)

6:20 pm: Conversation on the Challenges of Translating Valerio Magrelli (Clarissa Botsford,

Translator of Nel condominio di carne, Einaudi, 2003 and Parlor Press, 2015)

6:50 pm: Nel condominio della prosa (In the Condominium of Prose) (Valerio Magrelli, Poet and

Novelist)

7:30 pm: Q & A Session

Light Refreshments

The event will take place in English and Italian. Selections of Valerio Magrelli’s works will be read in English and in the original.

ALL WELCOME

For more information please contact mario_inglese@yahoo.com