{"id":2216,"date":"2014-02-21T14:47:52","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T14:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=2216"},"modified":"2015-09-01T16:56:54","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T15:56:54","slug":"italian-author-antonio-franchini-comes-to-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2014\/02\/21\/italian-author-antonio-franchini-comes-to-kent\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian author Antonio Franchini comes to Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday 24 March, Italian author Antonio Franchini will be visiting the University as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/italian\/index.html\">Department of Italian<\/a>\u2019s \u2018Meet the Author\u2019 series.<\/p>\n<p>Antonio Franchini is one of the most interesting Italian writers of today. He is the author of more than ten books of fiction and non-fiction, including <i>Gladiatori<\/i> (Mondadori, 2005) and <i>L\u2019absusivo <\/i>(Marsilio, 2009). In 2003 he won the <a href=\"http:\/\/premiomondello.it\/it\/home\/\">Premio Mondello<\/a>, one of Italy\u2019s most prestigious literary prizes, and his work has been translated into many languages. He is also the main editor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mondadori.com\/\">Mondadori<\/a>, the biggest European publishing house.<\/p>\n<p>During his talk he will read extracts of his works in English and engage in a public debate.<\/p>\n<p>The event has been organised by Dr Raffaello Palumbo\u00a0Mosca, Early Career Research Fellow in Italian, and it will run in the evening from 6pm in Cornwallis North West, Seminar Room 5.<\/p>\n<p>A Facebook group has been set up for the &#8216;Meet the Author&#8217; series here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KentMeetTheAuthor\">www.facebook.com\/KentMeetTheAuthor<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Essays, video links about Antonio Franchini have been posted on the University&#8217;s Italian blog here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/letteraturaevita\/\">blogs.kent.ac.uk\/letteraturaevita\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For any queries, please contact Raffaello via <a href=\"mailto:R.Palumbo-Mosca@kent.ac.uk\">R.Palumbo-Mosca@kent.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday 24 March, Italian author Antonio Franchini will be visiting the University as part of the Department of Italian\u2019s \u2018Meet the Author\u2019 series. Antonio &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2014\/02\/21\/italian-author-antonio-franchini-comes-to-kent\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":2219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[135858,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2216"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4818,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions\/4818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}