Programma Babel 2007

20:30 Cinema Forum

Cinebabel projection of the film, The Perfect Cirlce by Ademir Kenovic, with the presence of the scriptwriter and poet Abdulah Sidran.

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18:00 Palazzo Civico

Welcome, with a reading by Pietro De Marchi and Klaus Merz.

18:30 Palazzo Civico

Ornela Vorpsi, young Albanian writer and artist whose first book, written in Italian, won five major Italian literary prizes. In dialogue Fabio Pusterla.

20:30 barBabel

barBabel Balkanic dinner.

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09:30 Castelgrande

Giorgio Orelli talks about his translation of Geothe. In dialogue with Pietro De Marchi.

11:30 Castelgrande

Ivana Sajko, a young Croatian novelist and play-write, who in her texts combines tension and drama of real events with a complex intertwining of nightmare, enigma and phobia. In dialogue with Ljiljana Avirovic.

14:30 Teatro Sociale

Tomaz Salamun, irreverent, tragic and visionary, he’s the best-known Slovenian poet alive. In dialogue with his translator Darja Betocchi.

16:30 Teatro Sociale

Michael Krüger, narrator, poet and director of the publishing house Hanser, he’s a very important personality in contemporary German literature. In dialogue with his translator Federico Italiano.

18:30 Teatro Sociale

Ismail Kadaré, one of the greatest writers living, several times a candidate for the Nobel Prize for literature, is capable of giving a voice to the various spirits of the Balkan population. In dialogue with Michele Fazioli.

21:30 Teatro Sociale

Ljiljana Petrovic Buttler, the «Edith Piaf of the Balkans», accompanied by the Mostar Sevdah Reunion: a concert of Sevdah, one of the most antique and passionate forms of music from the Balkans

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09:30 Teatro Sociale

Dejan Ilic poet and translator, in dialogue with Giorgio Orelli and Fabio Pusterla, whose poetry he translated from Italian into Serbian-Croatian.

11:30 Teatro Sociale

Abdulah Sidran, poet who gave voice to the siege in Sarajevo, and was the scriptwriter of the first films by Kusturica. In dialogue with his translator Silvio Ferrari. With a reading by Claudia Cotti Zelati.

14:00 Teatro Sociale

Viceversa Letteratura, reading from the new Swiss magazine for cultural exchanges, published in three languages.

14:30 Teatro Sociale

Predrag Matvejevic, great intellectual and political figure, in his recent Breviario mediterraneo he speaks of the magic and dangers of different regions which touch upon the same sea. In dialogue with Sergej Roic.

16:30 Teatro Sociale

Helena Janeczek, poetess in German and narrator in Italian. In dialogue with Franco Buffoni.

18:30 barBabel

Closing drinks at barBabel