Journalist and writer Annalena Benini takes us on a journey through the Lazio region, where she interviews some of the most interesting and appreciated authors of contemporary Italian literature, several of whom have won the prestigious Strega award for literature. They each talk about how the places they have lived in have influenced their identities as writers and as people.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Valeria Parrella talks about her intense and contradictory bond with Naples and the neighborhood she lives in. The full-time innovative Donna Assunta school overlooks the sea, but faces Nisida, the juvenile detention center. Naples, she says, is not a city you can just live in and ignore, and has become for her an inexhaustible source of literary inspiration.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Valeria Parrella talks about her relationship with Naples and her way of writing about it, based on direct observation and listening to people, far from the usual stereotypes. Her writing stems from an "intermediate" point of view, close to everyday reality.
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