The DH Lawrence International Travel Literature Festival takes place every year in Mandas and is dedicated to the famous English writer who lived between the 1800s and 1900s and was also a poet, essayist and painter. Lawrence in 1921 described the journey to the island aboard the Green Train in the book "Sea and Sardinia": after a long time in Alta Trexenta his memory is celebrated with a cultural review in which emerging and established authors of the panorama participate every year international literature.
Today the fifteenth edition of the Lawrence Festival gets underway which, this year, is centered on the theme “Beauty. Mandas meets Costa Smeralda”. The preview of the Festival was actually held a few days ago with the participation of an exceptional guest, the television presenter Roberto Giacobbo who inaugurated the museum itinerary of the new Mandas Historical Museum (MaHMu).
This evening, Saturday 26 August, at 19 in the conference room of the former Convent of San Francesco, an appointment with "Journey to Italy between judicial cases and mysteries" with the participation of Carmelo Abbate , commentator of Quarto Grado and Pomeriggio Cinque.
Friday 1 September, evening with the singer-songwriter Raffaello Di Pietro (with Andrea Bocelli he recorded the song "Il Mistero dell'amore"; he wrote lyrics for Gianni Morandi, Anna Oxa, Gigi D'Alessio, Riccardo Fogli and Il Volo). Saturday 2 September, before the awarding of the Lawrence Prize for literature, the journalist Cristina Bigongiali (Porta a Porta) talks with Silvana Giacobini on the great interviews. Sunday 3 September, at 8.45 in the railway station "On the road, to tell us better" with Daniela Carta and at 9 the departure of the Green Train. At 6 pm Andrea Atzeni and Alessandro Garau present the book "Musica, Dimónios!: The story of the first Chief Music Officer of the Sassari Brigade", followed by the assignment of the Lawrence Prize for journalism to Enrico Pilia of L'Unione Sarda.
