2021 Programme
Event #14
Edoardo Albinati
War to retoric
The 2016 Strega Prize writer reviews the ways and places in which our public and private speeches become vague or threatening, demanding at all costs to move or persuade or intimidate others, and avoiding representing things as they are.
Edoardo Albinati, writer, has taught for over thirty years at Rebibbia prison in Rome, an experience he chronicled in his diary Maggio selvaggio (Mondadori, 1999). He has participated in humanitarian missions with UNHCR and INTERSOS in Afghanistan, Chad, Niger, and Serbia, and has collaborated on screenplays with filmmakers including Matteo Garrone and Marco Bellocchio. Among his more recent publications are Cuori fanatici (Rizzoli, 2019), Desideri deviati (Rizzoli, 2020), La tua bocca è la mia religione (Guanda, 2022), Uscire dal mondo (Rizzoli, 2022), and I figli dell’istante (Rizzoli, 2025). In 2016, he was awarded the Premio Strega for his novel La scuola cattolica (Rizzoli). Together with Francesca d’Aloja, he is also the author of Otto giorni in Niger (Baldini+Castoldi, 2018) and Vite in sospeso. Migranti e rifugiati ai confini d’Europa (Baldini+Castoldi, 2022).
