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Leonardo Sciascia in Dublin
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Leonardo Sciascia in Dublin

Categories: Culture and creativity -Literature and Publishing
A concert and a university conference in homage to the Sicilian writer, in the 100th year since his birth.
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In the year of the celebrations for the centenary of the birth of the Sicilian writer Leonardo Sciascia, the Italian Cultural Institute of Dublin proposes two unmissable events linked to the translation and first publication in English of the 1950 text ‘Favole della dittatura’.

In December 2021, thanks to a joint initiative of the Italian Cultural Institutes of Dublin, Edinburgh and London, a limited edition of ‘Tales from the Dictatorship’ will be published in the English translation specially edited by Ann Goldstein.

The text will be accompanied by an introduction from the Italianist Joseph Farrell and by a piece of writing entitled ‘Dittatura in fiaba‘ (Dictatorship in a fairy tale) by Pier Paolo Pasolini, which first appeared in the magazine ‘La libertà d’Italia’ on 9 March 1951.

In Dublin the following events will take place:

For more information, go to iicdublino.esteri.it

 

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