“CANCELED due to epidemiological emergency Covid-19“
The Italian Cultural Institute of Montreal, in collaboration with the École de langues de l’Université Laval, is pleased to present the conference “Scrittori Pigri: laboratorio di scrittura creativa on-line” by Barbara Fiorio. The writer will talk about her experience as a tutor of the Gruppo di Sostegno Scrittori Pigri, a creative writing online course addressed to those people who wish to become more aware of narrative mechanisms, of the style and the tools available to write with effectiveness, ranging from short stories to novels. Furthermore, the conference will be an opportunity to discuss some writing strategies linked to her novels Vittoria (Feltrinelli, 2018) and Qualcosa di vero (Feltrinelli, 2015).
Monday, March 23rd 2020 – from 6:30 pm to 8 pm
École de langues
Université Laval, Pavillon Charles-De Koninck, 1431
1030 Avenue des Sciences Humaines
Québec, QC G1V 0A6
The conference will be held in Italian
Barbara Fiorio was born in Genoa. She teaches communication and she holds writing workshops, such as the Gruppo di Supporto Scrittori Pigri (GSSP), which is now at its 10th edition. She debuted in 2009 with C’era una svolta (Eumeswil) and then she wrote several novels: Chanel non fa scarpette di cristallo (Castelvecchi, 2011), Buona fortuna (Mondadori, 2013 – Spanish edition for Suma de letras, 2014), Qualcosa di vero (Feltrinelli, 2015 – German edition for Thiele-Verlag, 2016) and Vittoria (Feltrinelli, 2018).
She published for Einaudi the tale La gattara (from the anthology Gatti. I racconti più belli, 2015), for Morellini she wrote Noi eravamo quelli che…, a short story about the 2014 flood (in the anthology Genova d’autore, 2017) and for Il Canneto she published the story Laura e Carlo (from the anthology Il ponte, a sostegno della Valpocevera dopo il crollo del Ponte Morandi di Genova, 2018). In 2019 she came back to her first work, extending and updating it, and she published with Morellini the second edition of C’era una svolta. Cosa hanno in comune Andersen, i Grimm e Perrault con Disney? Niente.