The Italian novelist and children’s writer, Nadia Terranova, was born in Messina on the coast of northeast Sicily, and it’s this specific geography that inspires her latest nov
Family secrets, a doorbell ringing in the dead of night, a funeral, a curse, an unhappy marriage, and a daughter who succeeds academically, moves up socially and ends up working as
Elena Ferrante, with the publication of her first book, Troubling Love in 1992, announced to her publisher that she would do nothing to promote the book – that she would not be p
In 2018 the Strega prize for best Italian fiction was awarded to Helena Janeczek, a Polish-German novelist writing in Italian, for La Ragazza con la Leica. Janeczek’s Italian is
Anna Maria Ortese’s Evening Descends Upon the Hills is a book that, Atlas-like, seems to bear on its shoulders the weight of the most overwhelming human sorrow – but also the b
The latest novel from one of Italy’s most prolific and popular contemporary writers appears on its surface to be a fantastical romance. An eighteen-year-old woman arrives at a co
In Italian, Emanuele Trevi’s Something Written is a spectacular centaur of a book – part essay, part novel – about the agrodolce vita, the sweet and sour life, of Rome in the
Tuesday 22 March 2015, 7pm – 8pm | Free, booking essential The Italian Cultural Institute, 39 Belgrave Square, London, SW1X 8NX Jhumpa Lahiri will discuss her latest book, In
Elena Ferrante’s novels have gripped the imagination and, with the fourth and final book in the Neapolitan series published this autumn, we are thrilled to announce an evening of
