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There are almost 2 thousand meetings held from 9 to 13 May at the Lingotto, on the occasion of the Turin Book Fair, directed for the first time by a woman, Annalena Benini, in addition to the 500 that the Salone Off program has spread across the territory surrounding.
To the usual pavilions (1,2,3 and Oval) another one has been added, the fourth, temporary, which was built outside, and will be dedicated to training, experimentation and exchange between generations. Furthermore, as last year, some meetings will take place on the roof of the building, in the “Pista 500 space” which has adapted the historic track used by the Fiat factory for car testing and its access ramp. Among these are the «Lessons on the roof of the Salone» such as the one with Domenico Scarpa and Jasmine Trinca, dedicated to Natalia Ginzburg who is responsible for the title of this edition, «Imaginary Life», taken from one of his lesser-known books.
In order not to get lost in the multitude of events which will also involve two Nobel Prize winners, the Turkish Orhan Pamuk and Abdulrazak Gurnah – born on the island of Zanzibar and who arrived in England as a refugee in the 1960s, we have selected ten not to be missed.
10 May, 2.15pm-3.15pm, BookLab, pavilion 4, Nicola Gardini presents his book Studying for love Joys and reasons for an infinite enchantment (Garzanti), a hymn to knowledge in which the writer, poet, Latinist, painter and teacher of Italian and comparative literature at Oxford, he takes the word “study” out of the classrooms, stripping it of its inferior meanings which are still more in vogue today: freed from the sense of duty and imposition, the student becomes a scholar, finally able to recognize in study the passion, the intimate research, the gift of innumerable possibilities.
10 May, 5.00pm – 6.00pm, Sala Azzurra, Pavilion 3, Elizabeth Strout, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who was also entrusted with the inaugural lesson of the Salon (Thursday 9th at 2pm in the Sala Oro, Pad. Oval) entitled The very slow start of my very fast career, will talk with Susanna Basso and Marco Balzano about his latest novel Lucy in front of the sea’ (Einaudi) set in the time of the pandemic.