(May 2nd, 2016) “The giraffe’s heart is far from its thoughts. She fell in love yesterday, and still does not know it”: a quote, among the countless opportunities, to exemplify the irony of Stefano Benni, one of the most important contemporary authors. The author from Bologna will be engaged in a series of events in Austria: on May 2nd in Vienna at the Hartliebs bookstore and on May 3rd at the Italian Cultural Institute of Vienna, which organised a encounter with the author (19:00) and a conversation in Italian with Barbara Mica, in collaboration with the University of Vienna and the Hartliebs bookstore. Benni has experimented with different literary genres through which he makes an excursus starting from the novel that launched him to the general public, “Sports Bar” (1976) and the his other well-known works in the field of poetry and theatre, until his recent collection “Dear Monsters (2015) from which he will read some stories. Many of his works have been translated into Germany by Wagenbach publisher. On May 4th Benni will be in Salzburg, hosted by the Dante Alighieri Society.
