Clara Caverzasio in conversations with authors © Ilaria Passano
Clara Caverzasio in conversation with authors
Friday 9 February 2024, 18.00 · Biblioteca Cantonale di Lugano, Sala Tami
The Beyond Hesse - LetteraTalk series greets the new year with new collaborations, continuing to explore the theme of climate change in italian language literature and focusing on the theme of ecopoetry with two new guests.
Clara Caverzasio, journalist and science communicator, will meet writers Prisca Agustoni, from Ticino who lives and works in Brazil, Swiss Literature Prize 2023 with Verso la ruggine (Novara, Interlinea, 2022), and Yana Lucila Lema Otavalo, an Ecuadorian from the indigenous Kichwa community, who writes in Spanish and Quechua, to talk about ecopoetry while discussing their works. Marcel Henry, director of the Museo Hermann Hesse Montagnola, and Stefano Vassere, director of the Bibioteche Cantonali, will intervene at the event.
In collaboration with Biblioteca cantonale di Lugano and Translation House Looren
In italian
Entrance fee: «Pay What You Want» principle
Yana Otavalo
Clara Caverzasio
Prisca Agustoni