Maja Lunde at Incroci di civiltà Festival in Venice

Maja Lunde at Incroci di civiltà Festival in Venice

Maja Lunde at Incroci di civiltà Festival in Venice 800 800 Barbara Del Mercato

The Venice Center for the Humanities and Social Change supports the presence of  Maja Lunde at the literary festival Incroci di civiltà

Venice, 06/04/2019 at 2.00 p.m. 

Ocean Space, Chiesa di San Lorenzo, Campo San Lorenzo, Venice

Born in 1975, Maja Lunde lives in Oslo with her husband and their three children. A novelist and TV-screenplay writer, after numerous children’s books she became internationally known with her first novel The History of Bees (2015), which has been published in 32 countries. An international best-seller, The History of Bees won the Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize, becoming the first debut novel to receive the prize. Blue (2017) is the second book of the anticipated tetralogy on climate change.

(from the page of Incroci di civiltà. See full program here)

Maja Lunde will converse with

Sara Culeddu — Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia

Boris Ondreička — TBA21-Academy

Bibliography in Italian

La storia dell’acqua, trad. di Giovanna Paterniti, Marsilio, 2018;

La storia delle api, trad. di Giovanna Paterniti, Marsilio, 2017.

The conversation will be English (simultaneous translation available); free admission, booking required.

This event is sponsored by Center for the Humanities and Social Change, NORLA – Norwegian Literature Abroad, TBA21-Academy and Marsilio

In collaboration with Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Culturali Comparati

Maja Lunde