Mucus Period A Week Early

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This initiative is well established since 2002. How did the idea? She was born the idea of \u200b\u200bdoing a festival but a short course meetings with twelve guests. The Passion has generated almost alone, in the year after, when the success of the first edition has become a considerably more robust and structured program. The place where the festival takes place, Villa Greppi with its space, and support of the Consortium which immediately understood the potential of this event, then gave us the opportunity to grow this event.

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This year is very strong presence of European authors: Hugues Pagan, Marc Pastor and Juan Aparicio-Belmonte will be in Italy for the first time, the exclusive guests of the festival. Together with them we plan Asa Larsson from Sweden, France and Dominique Manotti Jose Rodriguez Dos Santos from Portugal. The footprint of this eighth edition looks much noir for the Italians: Massimo Carlotto, Elisabetta Bucciarelli, Patrick Sheets and Valerio Varesi with noir ecomafia Edizioni Ambiente. We will also have the opening day of Mercedes Bresso, Marco Polillo, Michele Giuttari, the two "firsts" by Cristina Zagaria and Eugenio Tornaghi.

You will also see an aperitif and meetings at the restaurant. Because the public is attracted by the idea the banquet (culture and food)?

It 's a situation which last year was really liked, and that replicate and expand this year. This formula allows us to renew the encounter between author and audience through an unprecedented and diverse scenery, but also to show the audience a part of the territory that comes out of the house where the festival always takes place. The dinner is an event rather well established, for which we always choose a place of quality, able to hold this event at a cost affordable. This is the only event in the payment of the festival, but we try to ensure that it is still accessible to everyone.
What are the criteria for the selection of invited writers? The variety, first of all. Different names each year and an average of one representative from each publisher, to make the pass in many festivals and always different. On the other hand there are writers who, from the stage of the Passion, have established a good rapport with the audience Lecco, and we like to involve every year. Then the quality, the best of Italian and foreign genre fiction last year. There are also logistical and organizational policies that determine other choices, which have included 75 guests each year into an organic whole that brings together writers and moderators.


There are always events that enrich the program. This year, what are they? First Villa Greppi OCZ to become a BookCrossing, a drop zone of crime novels and noir. Only during the festival he withdrew about 200, but will continue throughout the year. We have also launched a competition for "poems back," compositions in lining up the spines of the books and the final person police. We have joined the initiative to live with slowness, which provides reading aloud of passages from the audience of the books they want. Finally on October 11, Sunday afternoon, the Carabinieri Unit Kennelclubs Casatenovo will perform a series exercises. There are more art exhibitions and literature, the latter dedicated serial investigators. Finally, a creative writing class held by the writer Elizabeth Bucciarelli October 9, a frequency free of charge.


There is a quick guide you past edition? Firstly I would mention the presence of Jasper Fforde, who open the festival with the first presentation of "There's something rotten." Norway Kjell Ola Dahl had come instead to close the seventh edition. Last year the theme was "tell at a glance", with meetings dedicated to short stories or novels that are developed in a few pages. With the authors have tried to make the point about the differences of style and subject, at work in Italy as the anthologies and the prospects for this dimension of the narrative.


You have chosen to dedicate a section for children, because the genre is also growing in terms of literature for children (just think of the Goosebumps series or Superbrividi Mondadori). There is a reversal of the trend among children? That is: while it is said that Italians in general read little, we can say that the Italian children read more than once? initiatives designed to involve children in reading have always been a great success. I "Small players" as we call them, are attentive and curious, follow us very well and show great passion for books. This year we launched before the summer, in the 130 libraries that follow the festival, an initiative that involves them in a face to face with the writer after reading the books of authors who will meet this year, they completed a card with questions to ask him the day of the workshop.


Well Paul, we'll see you there directly. Meanwhile, I make a big good luck and ask you to greet us with an invitation.
The invitation is for all to live this new edition of the Passion, of which we are particularly pleased, but also to stop a couple of days to breathe deeply the air of a place dominated by books, readings and readers. And finally to discover a country that still manages to retain its beauty despite the lie of overbuilding.