October 15th, 2015 – Giuseppe Catozzella, winner of the Premio Strega Giovani 2014 with “Non dirmi che hai paura”, will be in Montreal and Quebec City for a series of meetings organized by the Italian Cultural Institute in Montreal, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in Toronto and the Dante Alighieri Society of Laval. The book will be presented, in the presence of the author, at the Italian Cultural Institute of Montreal on Monday, October 26 at 6:30pm, during an evening organized under the auspices of the European project “Performigrations. People are the territory”. The evening will be devoted to the award-winning bestseller, which has sold only 100,000 copies in Italy and has had 12 editions, and the other works of the young author. On Tuesday, October 27, Catozzella will be in Quebec City, guest of the Department of Political Science at Laval University and the local Dante Alighieri Society. The meeting with the Italian writer will be led by prof. Francesco Cavatorta and will take place as part of the official celebrations of the Ministry of International Relations and Francophonie, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of cultural relations between the Canadian province of Quebec and Italy. The evening, which will be held in Italian and French, from 7pm to 9pm, at the French Museum of America, will see the participation of the Ambassador of Italy, Gian Lorenzo Cornado, and the Deputy Minister of Culture and Communications of Quebec, Marie-Claude Champoux. The celebrations will then continue on Wednesday, October 28 with a lecture in French entitled “Dual look,” during which the Italian ambassador and other participants, including the representative of the Delegation of Quebec in Rome, will discuss the flourishing cultural and academic links between Italy and Quebecers, as well as the important political and economic relations built over the years. (Red)
Literature: Giuseppe Catozzella is the guest of honor in Quebec
