Sydney – Invited by the Sydney Italian Institute of Culture, Viola Di Grado, the youngest winner of the Opera Prima Campiello Award and the youngest winner of the Strega Prize, will participate in May in a series of unforgetable events in New Zealand and Australia. On May 19, at the Auckland Writers Festival, the writer will be interviewed on articles about unusual issues with George Saunders, Emma Neale and Jenny Powell, while the next day she will talk about her two novels translated into English with Jennifer Levasseur. At the Sydney Writers Festival, the twenty-two-year-old will talk with Lex Hirst about her second novel Hollow Heart to share with some of the most beloved writers at the Festival, Brit Bennett, Durga Chew-Bose, Anita Heiss, Chris Kraus and Nadja Spiegelman, Meaningful stories, life lessons, bits of wisdom and good advice in the SWF Gala: Advice from Nasty Women. Along with Brit Bennetts, finally, she will question the two driving forces of our lives – sex and death in a meeting animated by Sofia Stefanovic. (9colonne)
