The Department of Italian‘s ‘Meet the Author’ series continues with a double visit from two authors, Andrea Tarabbia and Carlo Carabba, on Monday 7 April.
Andrea Tarabbia has published several novels, including La calligrafia come arte della guerra [The calligraphy as an art of war] (Transeuropea, 2010), Il demone a Beslan [The Demon in Beslan] (Knopf, 2011), and most recently the e-book La ventinovesima ora [The twenty ninth hour] (Mondadori X, 2013). He has also published the essay Indagine sulle forme possibili [Survey of possible forms] (Arachne, 2010) and a translation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s Diavoleide (Voland, 2012), and serves on the editorial team of the magazine First Love.
Carlo Carabba is and author and poet, and since 2008 has been the editor-in-chief of the Italian magazine ‘Nuovi Argomenti’ [‘New Topics’]. In 2011 he won the Carducci prize for his poem Canti dell’ abbandono [Songs of abandonment] (Mondadori, 2011).
During the event the authors will read extracts of their works in English and engage in a public debate.
The event has been organised by Dr Raffaello Palumbo Mosca, Early Career Research Fellow in Italian, and it will run in the evening from 6pm in Cornwallis North West, Seminar Room 5.
For more details, please see the event page here:
www.kent.ac.uk/secl/italian/events/