December Literary turns ten this year, and will be on stage from June 25 to September 5 with nine summer preview events . The Festival, conceived and curated by the Jane Austen Club , in addition to celebrating its tenth edition, this year also celebrates the 250th anniversary of the writer's birth . The chosen theme is full of suggestions and meanings: "Inhabiting books, inhabiting places, inhabiting time" . This common thread invites the spectator to reflect on how literature not only tells the story of the world, but also builds it, inhabits it and transfigures it, offering readers a refuge and a compass to orient themselves between past, present and future. All these suggestions will be the subject of meetings, debates, presentations and workshops starting from the strategic locations of the Jane Austen club: Cagliari, Galtellì, Nuoro, Sassari and Villacidro.
It starts in Villacidro on June 25th with Enrico Pandiani and his novel published by Rizzoli “Rimorsi”, followed by Maria Francesca Chiappe who on July 4th in Ussaramanna will present “Uguale per tutti” published by Castelvecchi. The next day, July 5th, the literary journey continues in Sassari with Maria Grazia Calandrone, a meeting with the author that promises to give many surprises. In Cagliari instead the show “Sei per Austen”, idea and direction by Giuditta Sireus, the appointment is for July 13th at the Teatro Doglio. On July 17th in Baradili it is time to talk about a truly important female figure in society a while ago, “La Levatrice” written by Bibbiana Cau, published by Nord.
On July 18 and 19, a double event in Sanluri and Cagliari with the writer Alessia Gazzola “Miss Bee” and the corpse in the library, published by Longanesi. In Galtellì, Marilù Oliva will talk about the “Bible told by women”: the precise backdrop will be the town’s church of San Pietro, frescoed with stories from the old and new testaments. Nuoro will welcome Piergiorgio Pulixi on August 27 with the newly printed book “L'uomo dagli occhi tristi” published by Rizzoli. Also in Nuoro, the preview of the Festival will close on September 5 with Maria Pierri with “Gotico Salentino” published by Einaudi. "The Festival was imagined and built to respond to the chosen theme: books are the tools from which we start, the settings are carefully chosen spaces, familiar places that tell stories and at the same time welcome spectators in an embrace - underlines the artistic director Giuditta Sireus -, the names of the authors are among the most important in the panorama of contemporary narrative, national and international. The Club has in fact chosen to give a wide range of contemporary literary production to explore different genres and themes. The choice of locations was particularly carefully chosen and studied so that it perfectly corresponds to the initiative it hosts".
This special edition of the Festival will not lack a special look at the 250th anniversary of the birth of one of the most beloved and immortal authors of world literature: Jane Austen. With her unmistakable style and her penetrating analysis of the human soul, Austen taught us how books can become welcoming homes, capable of reflecting the places and times that generate them and at the same time transcending them.