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Programme looking at new fiction and non-fiction books

Programme looking at new fiction and non-fiction books, talking to authors and publishers and unearthing lost classics

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Mariella Frostrup

Francesca Melandri

Nadia Dalbuono

Francesca Cristoffanini

Guiliana Piera

Open Book: Reading Europe: Italy

Reading Europe: Italy

31/07/2016

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, Reading Europe: Italy

Mariella Frostrup presents a programme exploring contemporary literature from Italy.

In a special edition of the programme, Mariella Frostrup explores contemporary literature from Italy and talks to those on the inside of the Italian literary scene.

In a special edition, Mariella Frostrup explores contemporary literature from Italy, what Italians are reading and why. She talks to author Francesca Melandri about her novel Eva Sleeps which has just been translated in to English. Anglo Italian crime writer Nadia Dalbuono, Milanese publishing guru Francesca Cristoffanini and Professor Guiliana Piera from Royal Holloway University of London. They explore the literary dominance of Italian Crime, the importance of regional themes in literature and the world wide phenomenon of Elena Ferrante.

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