Festival delle Lettarature
Rome's Festival of Literature takes place every year in the Basilica of Maxentius in the Roman Forums. It features a wide range of international and domestic writers, who present a piece of work specially written to the theme of the festival - previous years' themes have included "fear, hope" and "real, imaginary" . Entrance is free but limited to the number of seats.
The range of authors appearing is always an unusual one that caters to a wide variety of tastes - in the past Banana Yoshimoto, Paul Auster, Salman Rushdie, Susan Sontag, Doris Lessing, Jonathan Franzen and Gore Vidal have all appeared.
Festival delle Letterature in 2007
The Festival for 2007 is running from 18 May to 21 June. The theme for the year is "close, distant " and it's being interpreted by the following authors:
- 18 May - Isabel Allende
- 22 May - Ishmael Beah, Rita El-Khayat
- 29 May - John Banville, Catherine Dunne
- 31 May - Robert McLiam Wilson, Gregory David Roberts
- 5 June - Elif Shafak, Feridun Zaimoglu
- 7 June - Giancarlo De Cataldo
- 12 June - E. L. Doctorow, Roberto Calasso
- 14 June - Gianrico Carofiglio, Alicia Giménez-Bartlett
- 19 June - Scott Turow, Ildefonso Falcones
- 21 June - Vikram Chandra, Roberto Saviano
