FFW Replay Fast Forward

From 15th May 2008, every Thursday at 6pm at the Fondazione Claud io Buziol in Venice, a series of meetings in which six contemporary Italian authors are invited to "bare their souls" for the public, with readings of unpublished works and works in progress. This new formula will open the doors directly onto the "writer's workshop", capturing him or her in the middle of creation and revealing tricks and idiosyncrasies useful for understanding the mechanism of writing and narrative technique.
Niccolo' Ammaniti will inaugurate the series of events, followed by Elena Stancanelli, Antonio Moresco, Mauro Covacich, Romolo Bugaro and Carola Susani.

These appointments with six authors, some of the most interesting on the contemporary Italian scene, have been organised with the collaboration of Roberto Ferrucci, Marco Franzoso and Tiziano Scarpa, who will comment on the unpublished works together with the authors and the public.

This project has been supported by

Veneto Banca

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Programme in detail
15th May: Niccolo' Ammaniti
22nd May: Elena Stancanelli
29th May: Antonio Moresco
5th June: Mauro Covacich
12th June: Romolo Bugaro
19th June: Carola Susani

Niccolo' Ammaniti was born in Rome in 1966. He debuted in 1994 with the novel Branchie (Ediesse; republished by Einaudi in 1997), followed by the collection of stories Fango (Mondadori, 1996) and the novels Ti prendo e ti porto via (Mondadori, 1998), Io non ho paura (Einaudi, 2001) and Come Dio comanda (Mondadori, 2006), winner of the Strega Prize in 2007. He is also the author of work and screenplays for the cinema. His books have been made into successful films, including Io non ho paura, directed by Gabriele Salvatores in 2003. A new film, drawn from his latest book and directed by Salvatores, is currently in progress.

Elena Stancanelli was born in Florence in 1965 and lives in Rome. She is the author of the novels Benzina (Einaudi, 1998) and Le attrici (Einaudi, 2001); of autobiographical, literary and investigative stories, Firenze da piccola (Laterza, 2006) and A immaginare una vita ce ne vuole un'altra (Minimum fax, 2007). Her novels have been made into two films, directed by Monica Stambrini. She contributes to many magazines and newspapers.

Antonio Moresco was born in Mantua in 1947 and lives in Milan. He is the author of narrative works, plays and essays. His work includes the novels Gli esordi (Feltrinelli, 1998), Canti del caos (the first two parts of which have been published and the third is to come out shortly) and La cipolla (Bollati Boringhieri, 1995); the stories Clandestinità (Bollati Boringhieri, 1993) and Le favole della Maria (Einaudi, 2007); the plays La santa (Bollati Boringhieri, 2000) and Merda e luce (Effigie, 2007); autobiographical and literary essays Lettere a nessuno (Bollati Boringhieri, 1997), Il vulcano (Bollati Boringhieri, 1999), L'invasione (Rizzoli, 2002), Lo sbrego (Rizzoli, 2005), Zio Demostene (Effigie, 2005) and Scritti di viaggio, di combattimento e di sogno (Fanucci, 2005). He is one of the founders of the magazine Il primo amore.

Mauro Covacich was born in 1965 in Trieste and lives in Rome. He has produced several radio documentaries and the radio play Safari for the RAI. For about ten years he has been a reporter for some of the leading Italian dailies. He was awarded the Abraham Woursell Prize for new European literature by the University of Vienna in 1999. Covacich has published several narrative works including the recently completed Trilogia delle stelle: A perdifiato (2003), Fiona (2005) and Prima di sparire (2008) with Einaudi.

Romolo Bugaro was born in Padua, where he lives and works. He made his debut in 1987 with two collections in the anthology Belli e perversi, edited by Piervittorio Tardelli for Transeuropa, Ancona. In 1998 he published La buona e brava gente della nazione, which won a Campiello selection award. He then published Il venditore di libri usati di fantascienza (Rizzoli 2000) and Dalla parte del fuoco (Rizzoli 2003). His latest romance, Il labirinto delle passioni perdute (Rizzoli 2006) also won a Campiello selection award.

Carola Susani was born in 1965 in Veneto and lives in Rome. She writes novels and books of short stories. In 1995 she published Il libro di Teresa and in 1998 La terra dei dinosauri (Feltrinelli). She has also published the children's books Il licantropo (2002) and Cola Pesce (2004) with Feltrinelli. 2005 saw the publication of Il rospo, two radio plays for per Gaffi. In September 2006 Minimum Fax published her book of stories Pecore vive. In 2008 L'infanzia è un terremoto was published by Laterza. She is the editor of "Il maleppeggio" and "Nuovi argomenti". She contributes to the Rome news pages for "La Repubblica".