(31 October, 2016) Two evenings devoted to the life and work of Luigi di Ruscio (Fermo, 1930 – Oslo, 2011). Thursday November 3 and Saturday, November 4 at the Italian Cultural Institute in Oslo will be about the Italian poet and novelist Luigi di Ruscio, recognized as an aggressive and irreverent writer who has rid himself of the label of ‘worker-poet’ in order to build a powerful, swirling literary adventure that begins in Italy after the war. The first evening will contextualise Italian immigration to Norway in the 1950s by Professor Monica Miscali. The author’s literary work will then be presented by Professor Angelo Ferracuti, editor of Ruscio’s Feltrinelli edition. These talks will be held in Italian. The second evening will consist of a screening of the documentary “Neve nera” (black snow), dedicated to Ruscio, introduced by the director Paolo Marzoni. Di Ruscio, studied classic American, French and Russian, Greek philosophy, sagas of Nordic mythology and the work of Benedetto Croce on his own. In 1953, a jury chaired by Salvatore Quasimodo awarded him with the premio Unità. In 1957 he moved to Norway, where he worked for forty years in a metalwork factory. (Red)
