(Scorrere per la versione italiana) A dystopic world where Venice is the last safe place in Italy and a referendum to decide whether to blow up the Ponte della Libertà and to stop the current of refugees coming to Venice from across the country. This is the initial setting of the play directed by the … Leggi tutto The dystopic Venice of Albert Ostermaier
Igiaba Scego – biography
Igiaba Scego was born in Rome. After graduating in "Foreign Literature" at the La Sapienza University in Rome, she obtained her doctorate in pedagogy at the Third University of Rome. At present, she is writing and doing research on the dialogue between cultures and the question of migration. She collaborates with many magazines that deal with migrant … Leggi tutto Igiaba Scego – biography
Mayank Austen Soofi – biography
Indian writer, photographer, blogger and journalist http://www.thedelhiwalla.com Soofi was born in Nainital in the mountains of Uttarakhand and moved to Delhi around 2004. He uses 'Austen' as his middle name as a tribute to the author Jane Austen, about whom he often blogs.His writings were featured in Volume 4 of "Penguin Book of New Writing from India" published … Leggi tutto Mayank Austen Soofi – biography
Nataša Dragnić – biography
Born in 1965 in Split, Croatia. When she was six she wrote her first poem. When she was eighteen she moved away for the first time to pursue a degree in German and Romance studies in Zagreb. In 1995 she earned a master’s degree in literature. She also completed a degree in diplomacy in Zagreb and … Leggi tutto Nataša Dragnić – biography
Billy Kahora – biography
KENYAN WRITER AND EDITOR BASED IN NAIROBI. Billy Kahora is the Managing Editor of Kwani?. He also writes fiction and completed an MS.c in Creative Writing with distinction at the University of Edinburgh as a Chevening Scholar in 2007. Before that Billy studied and worked in South Africa for 8 years and in between worked as an … Leggi tutto Billy Kahora – biography
Serena Nono – biography
Born in Venice, Italy in 1964. and in 2006 she starts to make some films. She lives and works in Venice. In 1982 to she moved to London where she attended Kingston University, receiving a degree in Fine Arts (Sculpture) in 1987. In 1989 she returned to live in Venice. She has shown in many Italian and European cities. In … Leggi tutto Serena Nono – biography
Hanif Kureishi – biography
British Pakistani playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker and novelist. Kureishi started his career in the 1970s as a pornography writer, under the pseudonyms Antonia French and Karim. He went on to write plays for the Hampstead Theatre, Soho Poly and by the age of 18 was with the Royal Court. He wrote My Beautiful Laundrette in 1985, a screenplay about a gay Pakistani-British boy growing … Leggi tutto Hanif Kureishi – biography