Literature
Barry McCrea, professor of comparative literature and English at the University of Notre Dame, presents his new book: Languages of the Night: Minor Languages and the Literary Imagination in Twentieth-Century Ireland and...
20 Nov. The Open Door Bookshop presents a reading and book-signing of The Disobedient Wife by Annika Milisic-Stanley on Friday 20 November at 19.00.
Organisers say that guests can enjoy a glass of wine in an informal...
27 Oct. The St Stephen’s Cultural Centre Foundation presents a bi-lingual (English and Italian) poetry reading with Charles Simic, the 2007 US Poet Laureate, on Tuesday 27 October at 19.00.
Simic is the author of near...
21 Oct-4 Nov. Prices at library's book sale begin at 50 cent.
The S. Susanna Library, Rome's English-language lending library, is holding a new and used book festival from 21 October until 4 November.
The prices of...
23 Sept-1 April. John Cabot University in Rome has selected The Bluest Eye by Nobel Prize-winning American author Toni Morrison as the subject of this year’s Italy Reads, its annual community-based English language readi...
16 Sept. John Cabot University presents the tenth edition of InVerse - Italian Poets in Translation at 20.00 on Wednesday 16 September.
Founded in 2005 by JCU professors Brunella Antomarini, Berenice Cocciolillo and R...
11-13 Sept. This interesting festival is dedicated to the art of travel literature in its various forms: books, films, photographs, drama and blogs, and is organised by the Italian Geographical Society and Federculture....
9-30 June. Rome's Festival of Literature takes place in two locations this year — Piazza del Campidoglio and Casa delle Letterature —from 9-30 June.
The popular initiative celebrates the written word with a host of au...
Prices at book sale begin at 50 cent.
The S. Susanna Library, the English-language lending library in Rome, is holding its next sale of used books from 17-23 June. The sale takes place on Wednesday 17 and 24 June (15....
26 May. John Cabot University presents a reading by the award-winning Australian writer Kevin Brophy on 26 May, from 18.30-20.00.
Currently writer-in-residence at the Australia Council B. R. Whiting Studio in Rome, Br...
11-25 May. Literature festival dedicated to eight classics by great South American writers of the 20th century.
The evenings last about an hour each, beginning with a brief biographical introduction of the author, an...
14 April. The Institute for Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Rome’s John Cabot University presents a poetry reading by David Starkey, on Tuesday 14 April from 18.30-20.00.
Among the collections of poems by...
The Keats-Shelley House in Rome presents Perfumed Melodies: Tracking Literary Scent Memory from Shakespeare to Michael Field, a talk by Catherine Maxwell, on Thursday 26 March at 18.30.
A significant part of the talk...
A concert for the Keats-Shelley House on Thursday 28 May at 19.30 at S. Maria del Priorato in the Aventino district of Rome.
A rare opportunity to experience a suite of songs which together attest to the influence of...
19 March. The Almost Corner Bookshop in Trastevere presents a reading by Carlos Dews on Thursday 19 March at 18.00, as part of its Meet the Author programme of events.
Dews, one half of writing duo Sam Cabot, will rea...
Prices at upcoming sale begin at 50 cent
The S. Susanna Library, the English-language lending library in Rome, is holding its next sale of used books from 18-29 March.
The sale takes place during normal library hou...
The Institute for Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Rome's John Cabot University presents Documenting the Beats: A Conversation with Bill Morgan, Beat Friend, and Archivist, on Tuesday 3 March from 18.30-20.00...
The Almost Corner Bookshop presents Living in a Foreign Land, a reading by Rome-based author Sari Gilbert on Friday 27 February, at 19.30.
Gilbert, who moved to Rome from New York in 1972 to work as a foreign correspo...
The Institute for Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Rome's John Cabot University presents Shebooks: Publishing Women in the Digital Age, a joint reading and presentation by Paula Derrow and Elizabeth Geoghegan...
The Institute for Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Rome's John Cabot University presents its Spring 2015 readings at its Guarini campus in Trastevere.
3 Feb. Reading by Serbian Writer Andrija Matic.
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