International Book Fair – Turin, Italy

Turin, 10 May 2012
International Book Fair – Turin, Italy
25th edition
Lingotto Fiere
via Nizza 280, 10126 – Turin, Italy
From Thursday 10 to Monday 14 May 2012
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The 25° Book Fair – Salient Facts and Figures
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The twenty-fifth edition of the International Book Fair, is being held from Thursday 10
May to Monday 14 May at Lingotto Fiere (via Nizza 280, 10126 – Torino). With its
exhibition stands and installations, the Fair takes up four pavilions of Lingotto Fiere: nos. 1,
2, 3 and 5.
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Hours: Thursday-Sunday-Monday from 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.; Friday-Saturday from
10:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. Ticket rates: regular €10.00, discounted €8.00.
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The Book Fair is promoted and coordinated by Fondazione per il Libro, la Musica e la
Cultura (the Foundation for Books, Music and Culture). President of the Foundation is
Rolando Picchioni. Editorial Director of the Book Fair is Ernesto Ferrero. Organisational
and commercial management is by Lingotto Fiere – Gl events Italia.
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Some 1,200 exhibitors are present, some of them with a stand of their own, others within
collective and institutional spaces. More than fifty are the newcomers making their debut
at Lingotto Fiere, thanks to the ever-faster growth of the special projects: 23 new publishers
are showcasing their work in the Incubator and 25 in the Dimensione Musica area. Of the
71 start-up publishers that attended the last two editions of the Incubator, 24 have come
back to the Turin Fair this year with booths of their own.
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Also worth mentioning is the debut of three great international players, i.e., Amazon,
Nokia and Trekstor, playing a star role in the Book to the Future section.
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Presentations, meetings and debates will be housed in various areas including 26 rooms of
different sizes, ranging from the 35 seats of the Ivory Room to the 1,900 seats of the
Giovanni Agnelli Auditorium. New areas reserved for conferences and debates include
Piazza di Spagna, Sala Romania, Spazio Clinic Dimensione Musica, and Spazio
Sant’Anselmo.
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Starting this year, the Salone is on Twitter to give everyone a chance to learn about, and
comment on, the main events taking place at the fair in real time. You may become a
follower: @SalonedelLibro. Take part in the discussion and tweet using the official
hashtags of the 2012 Book Fair: #SalTo12 and #SalToff.
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The theme of the current edition is “Digital Spring”, which was also the leitmotif of the
2012 communications campaign: the changes that “living in the net” have brought about
in the way people read, write, communicate and store information, and the ways culture is
affected.
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For the first time in its history, the Salone has two guest countries: Romania and Spain,
both of which have come to Turin with a significant delegation of authors and cultural
representatives. The traditional focus organised jointly with the Chamber of Commerce of
Turin will provide an overview of the challenges that Romania offers players in the
financial and publishing sectors.
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The 25th anniversary of the Turin Book Fair coincides with a far-reaching transformation of
the city and its role. To this metamorphosis, the Salone dedicates a special exhibition: La
Città Visibile. Torino, 1988-2012 (The Visible City. Turin 1988-2012). Set up in Pavilion
5, it was conceived jointly with the Reader’s Circle and was organised by Luca Beatrice in
collaboration with Roberta Pagani. From the logos of the Salone to the Thyssen ruling, from
the Mp3 to the common rail engine, from the Olympic torch to tricolored Superga sneakers,
the twenty-five objects chosen to symbolise Turin over the last quarter of a century are
displayed and narrated individually in the words of a writer.
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At this year’s edition, well-established features are flanked by a multiplicity of novelties.
Dimensione Musica, in Pavilion 1, is an area devoted to Italian-made music products, e.g.,
highly prestigious music instruments, all sorts of publications in the field of music, HiFi
audio technologies, record labels and even the most exquisitely artistic productions
(concerts, festivals, events). Book to the future is a space in Pavilion 2 fully devoted to the
technologies for the fruition of cultural resources: e-readers, tablets, digital reading
devices, distributors, portals, online book stores.
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All the other sections that visitors liked best are present again this year, starting with
Lingua Madre (Mother Tongue), an area devoted to cultural hybrids, with the competition
by the same name for foreign women writers in Italy. Tentazione e meditazione
(Temptation and Meditation) showcases the best chocolatiers of Turin and Piedmont
according to a rich programme of meetings with great chefs and maîtres à penser of taste,
coordinated by food critic Paolo Massobrio.
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The Ibf - International Book Forum is back, with its eleventh edition to be held at the
Lingotto Conference Centre, from 10 through 12 May. This is the business area of the
Salone where publishing and movie & TV rights are negotiated. Organised with the support
of the new Agency for the Promotion Abroad and the Internationalisation of Italian
Companies, and that of the Turin Chamber of Commerce, it will be attended by about 600
professionals from 20 countries.
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The Salone will end with the habitual year-end rendezvous with the writers of the project
Adotta uno scrittore (Adopt a Writer). Thanks to this initiative supported by Fondazioni
delle Casse di Risparmio Piemontesi, during the course of the school year, 30 writers
visited middle and high school classes throughout the region of Piedmont, as well as reeducation centres and juvenile reintegration communities. It also provides for free
admission to the Book Fair for 12,000 students.
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During the same period as the Salone (8-14 May), the Salone Off leaves the premises of
Lingotto Fiere. Over 150 meetings, all of them admission free: presentations by great
international authors, theatrical performances, games, film screenings and readings, held at
various venues in five different districts of Turin (nos. 3, 4, 7, 8 and no. 2, Santa Rita2
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Mirafiori Nord, a new entry), as well as along the river and at water venues in the city (for
the Hydropolis project), at the Settimo Torinese Biblioteca Multimediale Archimede
multimedia library and at the Reader’s Circle.
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Thanks to a partnership with Gtt – Gruppo Trasporti Torinesi, people in possession of a
public transport ticket stamped during the day, holders of weekly or monthly season tickets
and Gtt employees are admitted to the Fair for €8; holders of an annual or multi-month
ticket for just €6.
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In collaboration with Lingotto Fiere, [To]Bike has set up a temporary structure across from
the entrance on via Nizza, so as to offer visitors an opportunity to use the bicycles of the
municipal bike sharing service to reach the venue. [To]Bike registered users may profit
from the €8 discount ticket by showing their personal service card at the ticket counter.
Furthermore, a discount ticket covering the entire five-day period has been specially
created for this 2012 edition of the Salone. For information: www.tobike.it.
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Turismo Torino, the Tourist Office of Turin and its Province, present on the Terrazza
Torino in Pavilion 2, has planned and organised many initiatives to help people coming
from out of town to visit and get to know Turin: Torino+Piemonte Card, the Books on the
bus: writers aboard tours, guided visits to two centres of excellence in the cultural industry
of Piedmont: the Alberto Tallone Editore Print Atelier in Alpignano, and the historic
archives and editorial offices of La Stampa.
Great international guests
As is customary, the Salone will be attended by many international guests of great standing. We
begin on Thursday May 10 with Henning Mankell, a master of Swedish crime fiction, known
throughout the world. U.S. writer Elizabeth Strout will also come to Lingotto Fiere to collect the
International Mondello Award given to her by sole juror Paolo Giordano, who looks to her as his
model, and will explore with her the secrets of a literary laboratory.
We should also mention Tahar Ben Jelloun, who will speak about the Arab Spring, Indian writer
Amitav Ghosh, and young American author Christopher Paolini, whose fantasy novels have
kindled enthusiasm in millions of young readers, British novelist Patrick McGrath, who explores
the subterranean continents of human folly in his books, and the man who is regarded as modern
Germany’s most interesting and most acclaimed author, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, in Turin
with his latest book Meine Lieblings-Flops.
Also attending will be Swedish author Björn Larsson, who has written a satirical novel about
Sweden’s celebrated mystery writers, whom he accuses of “gloominess”; Australian author Margot
Steadman and Chilean novelist Carla Guelfenbein. Also returning to Lingotto is Luis Sepúlveda
with a new collection of short stories.
From the U.S. comes Mark Allen Smith, screenwriter, investigative reporter and TV investigation
director, with a surefire bestseller, Information Retrieval, that explores the darkest aspects of data
gathering activities by multinational corporations, government agencies and organised crime.
Digital Spring. Life in the Net,
is the theme of the 2012 Book Fair
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Superslim computers, tablets and smartphones, digital technologies increasingly portable, powerful
and cheap, able to ensure constant connectivity, are radically changing our ways of thinking,
writing, communicating, printing, publishing, reading and selling. Equally affected are the
production, the distribution and acquisition of intellectual products: from newspapers to books.
The Digital Spring is a phenomenon that goes well beyond the future of e-books, or the destiny of
paper publishing, to affect society as a whole.
The conspicuous mutations underway are the leitmotif of the 2012 edition of the International Book
Fair. On Thursday 10 May, a round table discusses the new strategies that are forced upon the
publishers by digital technologies. Among the participants we should mention Gian Arturo Ferrari,
President of the Centre for Books, publishing companies Mondadori (Riccardo Cavallero),
Feltrinelli (Dario Giambelli), Rcs (Alessandro Bompieri), Gruppo Gems (Stefano Mauri), and
Martin Angioni, Country Manager of Amazon Italia. The debate is introduced by Andrea
Rangone and Vincenzo Russi, and coordinated by Luca De Biase.
In what ways are the free choices of publishers being affected by globalisation? This issue is
addressed by Giuseppe Laterza and two authoritative European publishers, Gallimard (Eric
Vigne) and Penguin (Stuart Proffit). Fernando Savater looks into the ethics of intellectual creation
in the time of the Internet; the opportunities and the hazards associated with different copyright
regulations, e-books and selfpublishing practices are the focus of a meeting, led by Marco
Belpoliti, with Ferrari himself, author Christian Raimo, and critics Francesco Cataluccio and
Andrea Cortellessa.
The new practices of reading and writing online are the theme of a meeting with Gino Roncaglia
as well as a meeting with Beppe Severgnini and Francesco Piccolo (“Disconnected vs.
hyperconnected”), organised by Fondazione Corriere della Sera. Severgnini will give a “Twitter
Lesson” as a “toothbrush for mental hygiene”, while conversely Ermanno Cavazzoni explains his
clever strategies to avoid getting trapped in the Network. Politics and democracy in the time of the
Internet are the focus of a conversation between Matteo Renzi and Luciano Canfora, while
Beppe Grillo and Gianroberto Casaleggio will talk about how to change politics via the Web. the
digital strategies of Italian Protesters are described in a new book by Jacopo Iacoboni, while
Francesco Pizzetti, Chairman of the Privacy Guarantor Authority will hold a lesson on the control
of personal data and the right to confidentiality.
The genetic mutations of the written word at the time of the social media are investigated by
Massimo Gramellini, Giacomo Poretti and Gianni Riotta in the course of a debate organised by
La Stampa, which will also pay homage to Anna Lisa, the blogger who courageously narrated her
battle with cancer and her love for life, touching the hearts of readers (with Mario Calabresi, Anna
Masera, Umberto Veronesi). The duty of memory, the right to oblivion is the theme of the round
table that takes its cue from a book by Maurizio Molinari Governo ombra (Shadow Cabinet), in
which the history of Italy during the so-called “years of lead” is revisited through the lens of US
secret documents (with Marco Belpoliti, Mario Calabresi and Agnese Moro).
“Philosophy on the Web” (and on TV) is the theme addressed with Maurizio Ferraris by Mario De
Caro and Gianluigi Ricuperati. Philippe Daverio talks about art in digital formats, with Vincenzo
Trione. Linguist Raffaele Simone examines the effects of the “digital revolution” on our
relationship with the world, while Alessandro Schiesaro compares the digital revolution currently
underway with similar technological turning points in ancient times.
Thousands of people have adhered to the Manifesto for Culture launched by daily newspaper Il
Sole 24 Ore. What are the concrete steps leading to a system able to restore culture to its central
role in promoting growth? Thursday 10 May this issue will be discussed, with Roberto
Napoletano, editor of Il Sole 24 Ore, and Armando Massarenti, by archaeologist Andrea
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Carandini, historian Sergio Luzzatto, the President of Teatro Stabile di Torino Evelina
Christillin, mathematician Alberto Conte, the President of AIE (the Italian Publishers
Association), Marco Polillo, Francesco Micheli.
Spain and Romania, Guest Countries
At this edition marking its 25th anniversary, the Salone has not one but two guest countries:
Romania and Spain: two countries located at the geographical extremes of the Latin language
and culture area, both of them present at Lingotto Fiere as Guests of Honour, with a sizeable
stand, and with authors, publishers, meetings.
As customary, both countries will offer an overview of their creativity and cultural liveliness, and a
broad array of elements characterising their societies, from memory to material culture and daily
life to the human landscape. Their respective linguistic communities present in Turin and Italy in
general will also be involved.
Spain is present with its stand in Pavilion 2. The Spanish “national team” includes writers that are
well known in Italy, such as philosopher Fernando Savater, the recipient of the 2011 International
Book Fair Award Javier Cercas, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Enrique Vila-Matas, Almudena
Grandes, Ildefonso Falcones, Clara Sánchez, José Ovejero, Antonio Soler, Julio
Llamazares, Rosa Montero, Félix J. Palma, Basque novelist Bernardo Atxaga, and Catalan
authors Alicia Giménez-Bartlett, Ricardo Menendez Salmón, Ignacio Martinez de Pisón. Many
of these authors are engaged in a close revisitation of the civil war years, looked at from outside
the idelological frameworks. Among the most important trend in contemporary Spanish narrative
we should mention the historic novel, as represented by the bestsellers authored by Falcones and,
more recently, by Jorge Molist and Susana Fortes, who are also present at Lingotto Fiere; and
the crime novel. Moreover, two sessions organised by Istituto Cervantes of Milan will be devoted to
emerging writers: Jordi Carrión, Pablo d’Ors, Agustin Fernandez Mallo, Alfonso Mateo
Sagasta, J.A. González Sainz and Olga Merino, presented by Victor Andresco.
Other events will include a homage to a great hispanist such as Angela Bianchini, a reading of
the parallel histories of Spain and Italy, with historian Giovanni De Luna and Julio Llamazares; a
round table on women’s role in democratic Spain, with Mercedes Cabrera, who served as Minister
of Public Education during the Zapatero administration, Emma Bonino, Gianna Pentenero and
Marcella Aglietti; a debate on historical memory and national reconciliation, with Ismael Saz,
Gabriele Ranzato, Aldo Ruffinatto, Javier Rodrigo and Alfonso Botti. The meetings with the
authors will be preceded and followed by readings from Don Quixote and readings of the best
pages of twentieth century Spanish poetry, selected by Davide Rondoni, with in between a
concert by guitarist José Luis Montón.
With about 260,000 citizens in Piedmont and the adjacent regions of Valle d’Aosta and Liguria, and
just under 80,000 in the city of Turin alone, Romanian nationals make up the largest foreign
community in the territory of the Book Fair. Not as well known in Italy as it deserves to be,
Romanian culture has produced some of the protagonists of the twentieth century: historian of
religions Mircea Eliade, playright Eugene Ionesco, philosopher Emil Cioran first and foremost.
Romania, present at the Lingotto since 2009, brings to the Salone (in Pavilion 3) a highly
evocative stand, with a strong visual impact, and has defined a rich programme, which, besides the
rendezvous at Lingotto Fiere, provides for meetings and events in the city, concerts, performances,
and a film cycle at the National Cinema Museum. Among the guests, worthy of notice is the
presence of novel and essay writer Norman Manea, recipient of the 2002 International Nonino
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Award. A dissident during the Ceausescu years, he found refuge in New York, the city of exiles par
excellence. With him: Mircea Cartarescu, poet and novelist who studied and toured extensively in
Western Europe and is a leading representative of the post-modernist movement; Liliana Lazar,
who lives in France at present and is the author of a novel highly appreciated by Nobel Prize
Winner Le Clézio, where the atmosphere of ancient fairy tales, and the dark years of Ceausescu
intermingle with the vicissitudes of a serial killer; and an appreciable number of novelists, essayists
and poets whose works are being translated into Italian, including Dan Lungu, Ana Blandiana,
Doina Rusti, Razvan Popescu, Matei Visniec.
La Città Visibile (The Visible City): on display at the Book Fair
the twenty-five icons of the metamorphosis of the city
Torino is known in the world primarily as the city of carmaker Fiat and football club Juventus. In
2006, it hosted the Winter Olympics, and in 2011, during the celebrations of the 150th
anniversary of the Unification of Italy, it was rediscovered by international tourism as the splendid
first national capital.
In 1988, when the Salone del Libro was born, Turin was first and foremost an industrial city. The
Lingotto itself was an immense empty structure, recently vacated and waiting to be given a new
purpose. And yet, it was the first signal in a chain reaction that in a few years’ time would change
everything. Areas and buildings left in disuse by the manufacturing industry are transformed into
socialisation and service places, gardens, avenues. New citizens from all over the world change
the social structure of the city as well as its colours, flavours, sounds, habits, rhythms. From the
shell of a city that was hyperspecialised in the production of goods there gradually emerges the
lively metropolis that creates and exchanges knowledge. Turin rediscovers ancient and new
callings: the fine arts, cinema, creativity, enogastronomy, show business, tourism.
Can this metamorphosis be narrated through the objects, the inventions, the turning points that
marked and determined its development? The exhibition La città visibile. Torino, 1988-2012
(The Visible City. Turin 1988-2012) – conceived by the Salone and the Reader’s Circle and
organised by Luca Beatrice assisted by Roberta Pagani – believes it can.
Among the items on display we shall find the Mp3 that has revolutionised the digital music market,
born in Torino in 1988 from an idea by Leonardo Chiariglione; the Olympic torch of the 2006
Winter Games; the ruling that found the manager of the ThyssenKrupp factory guilty of murder
for the fire of 6 December 2007 that killed seven workers, the most tragic moment in the recent
history of the city and at the same time a turning point in the awareness and culture of occupational
safety. Fashion and contemporary art. Slowfood enogastronomy as a wellness philosophy, and
the changes affecting the population, that embraces multiculturalism as something real instead of
mere lip service. The underground, inaugurated in 2006, and the Frecciarossa (Red Arrow) train
designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro, that links Turin and Milan in just 50 minutes. The music of the
Subsonica rock band, and the new football ground, the Juventus Stadium. The past splendour of
the Royal Palace of Venaria and the futuristic Alenia Space Station.
Twenty-five stories for 25 years, making up an extraordinary, thrilling puzzle. This is a list of the
objects and the authors that describe them:
1. Logos of the Book Fair (Armando Testa and Adriano Benetti)
2. Thyssen ruling
Guido Accornero,
Rolando Picchioni
Luca Rastello
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3. Mp3 by Leonardo Chiariglione
4. The new 500
5. The Olympic torch
6. Juventus Stadium
7. Superga sneakers
8. Subsonica
9. Guido Gobino’s drop shaped chocolate egg
10. Giugiaro object
11. Ugo Nespolo sketches for the underground
12. The Slow Food Snail
13. Photos of multiethnic classes
14. Carlo Fruttero, Women acquainted with the facts
15. Sweatshirt by Robe di Kappa
16. Alenia Space Station
17. ToBike bicycle
18. Clothes by Kristina Ti & Alessandro Martorana
19. The “Bubble” of the Lingotto by Renzo Piano
20. Luigi Stoisa Christmas Lights
21. Cinema museum, Poster After Midnight
22. Common rail engine
23. Venaria Reale, photo by Grazia Toderi
24. BelPaese Carpet by Maurizio Cattelan
25. Italian flag for the 150th anniversary
Giuseppe Culicchia
Mario Baudino
Giampaolo Ormezzano
Giorgio Faletti
Fabio Geda
Gabriele Ferraris
Bruno Gambarotta
Gianluigi Ricuperati
Gian Luca Favetto
Lorenzo Mondo
Margherita Oggero
Ernesto Ferrero
Elena Loewenthal
Alessandro Perissinotto
Stefania Bertola
Gianni Farinetti,
Luca Bianchini
Enrico Remmert
Paola Mastrocola
Giorgio Vasta
Piero Bianucci
Alessandro Barbero
Luca Beatrice
Andrea Bajani
Mother Tongue, the laboratory of cultural crossbreeds
Conceived and organised in collaboration with the Piedmont region, Lingua Madre (Mother
Tongue) is a programme that hosts significant authors from that tightly knit network of crossbreeds
and hybridisations that are redesigning the map of world cultures. A recurrent motif, the encounter
of experiences, cultures and languages, the métissage trials that, besides revealing unknown or
little known worlds in a target language (mostly English), also result in a significant expressive
language enrichment.
Prominent among the guests of this 2012 edition is Ayad Akhtar, born in Wisconsin from Pakistani
parents, cinema and theatre man who studied in Italy, hailed as one of the most talented
contemporary American writers; he signs a novel where the encounter of North American culture
with Pakistani Islamism and Judaism gives rise to unforeseeable, original developments
(Mondadori). Ali-al-Maqri, Yemeni dissident journalist and publisher, narrates a difficult love,
between a Muslim girl and a Jewish young man. A Romeo and Juliet that takes place in 17th
century Yemen and has met with controversial reactions (Piemme).
The Salone will host a conversation between Israeli writer Ron Leshem, whose new novel,
published by Cargo, is about Iran, and Mahamoud Doulatabadi, a dissident writer who continues
to live in Iran even though his works are only published abroad. His novel, Il Colonnello (The
Colonel) (Cargo) narrates a dramatic story of repression wrought against an old officer. Lila Azam
Zanganeh also comes from an Iranian family. After studying in Paris, she moved to the U.S. where
she undertook an academic career. The author of Who’s afraid of Iran?, a book that aims to refute
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the threatening image of Iran conjured up by western media, now presents The Enchanter:
Nabokov and Happiness (published in Italian by Ancora del Mediterraneo as Un incantevole sogno
di felicità), a delicate catalogue of the happiness that comes from reading and writing, which takes
its cue from Vladimir Nabokov’s works.
Turkish writer Moris Fahri, who has lived in the U.K. for many years, in his I figli dell’arcobaleno
(Edizioni Lavoro) narrates a story that is little known: the persecution of Gypsies during World War
II, as seen through the eyes of a Rom child that escaped from extermination. The world of the
Roma is also depicted in Along the Enchanted Way: A Story of Love and Life in Romania by
William Blacker, a British aristocrat that through a series of incredible vicissitudes moved to a
peasant community in Transylvania, and was mesmerised by a culture as yet uncontaminated by a
fake modernity (Lungo la via incantata, Adelphi).
Catalan reporter Agnès Rotger narrates a touching story of courage and dedication, the story of a
young Afghan girl, Nadia Ghulam, who helped her family to survive by wearing man’s clothes and
behaving (and working) like a man (The Secret of my Turban, in Italian Il segreto del mio turbante,
Sperling & Kupfer).
From Latin America comes Chilean writer and film director Alberto Fuguet, who lived in California
as a young man before returning to his own country, where he founded McOndo, a movement that
shuns Magic Realism and all the “isms” that do not reflect daily reality. Fuguet achieves a veritable
short-circuit between two worlds, juxtaposing the U.S. of the Nixon administration with the Chile of
Pinochet, the magic of literature and the suggestive power of cinema (La Nuova Frontiera).
Claudiléia Lemes Dias is Brazilian, but has been living and working in Rome for many years and
writes in Italian. Her Nessun requiem per mia madre (Fazi) is a vitriolic portrait of an Italian family
unable to embrace a foreigner, though she is not a fugitive, and is not running away from her past.
Guatemalan Eduardo Halfón, with Lebanese and Polish roots, and an American education also
looks to the West. His novel L’angelo letterario (Cavallo di ferro) is a savvy blend of genres and
languages, in line with the tradition of the great twentieth century writers, from Hesse to Carver,
from Hemingway to Nabokov.
And finally, Europe, the theatre of devastating conflicts. In La sorella di Freud (Freud’s Sister)
Macedonian novelist Goce Smilevski reveals an unsettling chapter in the life of the founder of
psychoanalysis, who, in fleeing Vienna to escape Nazi persecution “forgets” and leaves behind
four sisters who eventually ended up in a concentration camp. From the U.S. where she has been
living, Lithuanian novelist Ruta Sepetys returns to the native land of her relatives to reconstruct
the vicissitudes that led to their internment in the Gulags (Avevano spento anche la luna, Garzanti).
Croatian writer Dubravka Ugresic was forced to find refuge in the Netherlands in 1993 and her
works draw upon the autobiographic themes of exile and of being confronted by History; in the end
she embarked on the rediscovery of the Bulgarian origins of her mother and an incredibly lively
culture obfuscated by the absurd violence of war (Nottetempo).
The International Book Forum is enriched with Adapt Lab
This will be the eleventh edition of Ibf – the International Book Forum, that is to say, the business
area of the Salone, dedicated to deals involving publishing rights for the translation and movie and
TV versions of books. The 2012 edition of the Ibf has attracted over 600 participants,
representing 20 countries: from Thursday 10 through Saturday 12 May they will meet in the rooms
of the Lingotto Conference Centre, which, after the experience of 2011, again welcomes publishing
industry operators in Pavilion 5. Created to foster the encounter between the great players of the
publishing sector, the Ibf confirms its validity as a strategic appointment, made possible by the
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decisive and constant support provided by Regione Piemonte and the collaboration of ICE Agency for the Promotion Abroad and the Internationalisation of Italian Companies, that
believed in the project, and funded it, from the very start. The results obtained are outstanding in
terms of growth and visibility on foreign markets.
In its 10 years of life, in fact, the Ibf has contributed to the increase in the sales volume of
international publishing rights for Italian works (with an average annual increase of 15%, according
to AIE data) and has gained the standing of a rendezvous not to be missed on the schedules of
the most important publishers, literary agents, film, TV and new media producers, who this year
have decided to invest in the project to an unprecedented extent: over 70 are the foreign
publishers and literary agents attending the forum entirely at their own expenses, and among
these are U.S. companies Light Press and L.A. Case Books, and over 80 are the operators that
have only been offered free hotel accommodation.
Among the most important attendees are Dutch publishers Ambo Anthos and Artemis & Co, the
Chinese Shanghai 99 Readers Company and U.S. literary agency Waterside Productions.
Numerous delegates have come from Romania and Spain, the two guest countries of this 2012
edition, and many small publishers are also present. In 2011, the uncertainties of the economic
crisis notwithstanding, many high-quality deals were concluded, as in the case of Elisabeth by
Paolo Sortino (Einaudi), whose rights were purchased by Spanish publishing house Anagrama,
Nel mare ci sono i coccodrilli (Baldini Castoldi Dalai), whose rights were purchased by
Portuguese publisher Objectiva, and Tu sei il male by Roberto Costantini (Marsilio), that went
to a Danish publisher, Artpeople.
But the most significant addition to the Ibf is AdaptLab, a book-to-screen adaptation
programme. 8 titles (4 thrillers and 4 general narrative) were selected and will be adapted by 8
European screenwriters during three workshops and two online sessions. All this will be
accomplished under the supervision of two professional TorinoFilmLab story editors. In
November 2012, the projects will be presented to a group of international producers (of whom at
least 15 primarily interested in the adaptations), agents and other film industry professionals that
will convene in Turin from all over the world to attend the TorinoFilmLab Meeting Event. This
initiative is promoted by TorinoFilmLab in collaboration with Ibf/Turin Book Fair, Initiative Film,
National Cinema Museum, Fip - Film Investimenti Piemonte and the Turin Piedmont Film
Commission, under the patronage of Regione Piemonte. Also confirmed is the Tfl Window, a
“desk” where a story editor engages in scouting activities to find new stories for films, in
preparation for the 2013 edition of AdaptLab.
The programme of meetings and debates reserved for operators will address topics of great
interest for the publishing world. Among the most important events we should mention AdaptLab
Formula: 8 x 8, eight books for eight screenwriters, the presentation of the AdaptLab project with
Savina Neirotti of TorinoFilmLab, Isabelle Fauvel of Initiative Film and a great guest, Jenny
Gilbertsson, Swedish producer and script editor for Stieg Larsson’s Millenium Trilogy; Legal
context or contest? Copyright on the new digital frontier, with Marco Ricolfi, Law School Professor
at the University of Turin.
The International Book Forum is an initiative of the International Book Fair of Turin, co-funded by
the Piedmont Region, ICE – the Agency for the Promotion Abroad and the Internationalisation of
Italian Companies, the Ministry of Economic Development and the Chamber of Commerce of
Turin.
Mtv and the Clinics at Dimensione Musica
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Second year of life for Dimensione Musica, the area of the International Book Fair of Turin (1014 May, Lingotto Fiere) fully devoted to Italian-made products for the music sector, that has among
its media partners a cult network such as MTV.
Among the great guests is Carlo Rossi, well-known Italian music producer (Caparezza and
Jovanotti to mention just two of the singers he works with): at the Salone, he will hold a lesson on
the situation of music productions in present-day Italy.
Dimensione Musica provides an opportunity to understand in what direction the protagonists of the
Italian music industry are going and to “experience first hand” what is being produced, tested out
and created nowadays in Italy in the variegated world of music. From valuable traditional
instruments to publications in the field of music, from record labels to the most exquisitely
artistic productions: a complex, composite universe that, within the context of the International
Book Fair of Turin, is ready for an exchange of ideas with the public in general and trade operators,
and is willing to acquire the tools needed to take up the challenges that today’s world presents.
The aim is to enhance the value and visibility of, and share, the best that the Italian music industry
accomplishes, produces, creates, innovates.
Thus, in 2012, in the wake of the success of the first edition, that saw the participation of 60
exhibitors and more than 80 artists, Dimensione Musica confirms its significance as a prestigious
rendezvous for music experts and enthusiasts, extending over an exhibition area of over 1,000 m2
in Pavilion 1, which accommodates Italy’s best production realities in this field. The entire
production chain is well represented, by this year’s more than 50 participants: makers of traditional
instruments, music publishers (including Curci and Red Records), record labels (Egea,
Stradivarius and Abeat among the protagonists), management and booking agencies (Mescal),
distributors (Jupiter). Also attending are organisations working daily in different areas of the music
sector: music schools, associations, training institutions, festivals, events.
Confirmed again for the current edition are the practice studios, where musicians, enthusiasts
and neophytes may have fun with the instruments made available by the exhibitors of the area,
who stand ready to supply valuable technical advice and to answer questions.
A rich programme of events flanks the exhibition activities. There are as many as three
locations to accommodate the meetings scheduled – just under 100 – and the over 80 artists
involved.
The Red Room is reserved for the main events of the evening. Among the most important, the
evening of Friday 11 May will be devoted to the theme of Musical Myths, with Dente, Alberto
Fortis and the Moderni on stage, presented by Enzo Gentile. On Saturday 12 the Maurizio
Giammarco Quartet will play in memory of the celebrated jazz musician Thelonious Monk,
remembering him after thirty years from his death, on the occasion of the publication, by minimum
fax, of a biography of the musician.
The Dm Auditorium, veritable pulsating heart of Dimensione Musica, houses the daily non-stop
programme of music events. A 60-seat room, exclusive and fully sound-proofed, conceived,
organised and fitted out for live activities. Everyday, during the entire Fair period, in fact, from
10:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., it houses an uninterrupted sequence of performances, conferences,
demonstrations, presentations of artists, CDs, books and events. Taking turns on the stage, artists
from Italy’s jazz, classical, rock and pop music scene, musicians, operators, technicians and
experts. Among the rendezvous: the Modena City Ramblers with Marco Montanari (Thursday 10
at 6:45 p.m.), Gianmaria Testa (Friday 11 at 5:15 p.m.), Fausto Mesolella (Friday 11 at 6:00
p.m.), Pacifico (Saturday 12 at 5:15 p.m.), Paolo Benvegnù (Sunday 13 at 12:00 p.m.), a reading
against a musical background with Arisa and the Perturbazione (Sunday 13 at 2:15 p.m.). Among
the publishing events: the presentation of a book on the 25 years of life of the Nazionale Cantanti
(the Singers National Team) (Sunday 13 at 5:15 p.m.), and the presentation of Meglio tardi che
Mao, by Mauro “Mao” Gurlino (Monday 14 at 7:30 p.m.).
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The clinics are the great novelty of the 2012 edition of Dimensione Musica. The educational
meetings, organised by Tony De Gruttola for Accademia Lizard Piemonte, are held daily in the
Spazio Clinic. The lessons are held by some of the most important teachers in the Italian music
scenario. We should mention in particular the following lessons: Expression and Technique in the
modern guitar (pop/rock music) with Tony De Gruttola, Saturday 12 at 3:30 p.m.; The electric
bass on a 360-degree basis with Massimo Camarca, Friday 11 at 6:30 p.m.; The rock-fusion
guitar with Miky Bianco, Sunday 13 at 5:00 p.m.; Chitarra Shred with Fabrizio “Bicio” Leo,
Saturday 12 at 6:30 p.m.; The blues guitar with Alessandro Giorgetta, Saturday 12 at 1:00 p.m.;
From jazz to Italian music with Nico di Battista and Dario Chiazzolino, Sunday 13 at 6:30 p.m.;
The modern drums. Technique and musicality with Stefano Incani, Friday 11 at 5:00 p.m. A
lesson by Guido Michetti on effects management is scheduled to take place on Friday 11 at 3:30
p.m.; Piero Vallero will tell us about hard disk recording on Friday 11 at 2:00 p.m., Guglielmo
“Guru” Cicognani will talk about amplification on Saturday 12 at 5:00 p.m., while harmonic chords
is the theme that will be addressed by Andrea Rivelli Dogal on Sunday 13 at 5:30 p.m. For
reservations and information on the clinics: [email protected]; +39 348 162.93.76.
And every evening, beginning at 10:00 p.m. at the Blah Blah space, in via Po 21, “off” jam
sessions with the protagonists of Dimensione Musica.
Book to the future: the Digital Fair welcomes
Amazon, Nokia and Sony
The publishing world meets technology at Book to the future, an area of Pavilion 2 entirely
devoted to digital publishing and the new cultural fruition technologies. In the year of the Digital
Spring, the Salone offers its visitors an opportunity to explore the world of digital reading in each
and every aspect.
Book to the future is the deal showcase for the protagonists of high-tech publishing - publishers,
distributors, device manufacturers, portals, online book stores - that convene in Turin to interact,
develop ideas, communicate and meet the public of readers with the view to identifying new trends
and new needs and requirements.
Among the protagonists of the 2012 edition of Book to the future are some of the most important
players in the national and international scenario, such as Amazon, proposing their latest Kindle
models; Nokia, presenting Nokia reading, a new app by the Finnish company for e-book reading
with its devices; Sony, proposing the Prs-T1, the lightest reader in the world; Trekstor, a German
company displaying its e-readers with built-in movie player and Mp3 reader.
Among the Italian exhibitors we should mention the Ibs portal, a leader in online sales of books
and audiovisuals; Bol, the Mondadori media store, offering books and ebooks in Italian and
English, and its e-readers: Cybook Opus and Orizon; BookRepublic, digital online bookstore and
digital content distribution platform that has joined forces with some of Italy’s primary independent
publishers and serves as their only bridge to the digital market; Ebookizzati, portal for the sale of
Italian and international ebooks, that offers the publishing houses book conversion to digital
formats services, and consultancy services on digital rights management and hacking.
Discover the city during the Trade Fair period
with the Tourist Office of Torino & Provincia
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Turismo Torino & Provincia, the Tourist Office of Turin and its Province, has conceived and
organised numerous initiatives to enable visitors to the 25th International Book Fair to get to know
the city during the opening period of the fair.
Turismo Torino & Provincia is present at the Salone on Terrazza Torino, an area adjacent to the
entrance of Pavilion 2 of the Lingotto venue, where the celebrated NuOvo designed by Paolo
Maldotti is displayed beside hundreds of books on Turin, available for consultation, and where
visitors can taste Vergnano coffee.
The Torino+Piemonte Card, on sale at the Salone, is a valuable means to discover the landmarks
of the area in a practical and economical manner with the 2-, 3-, 5-, 7-day cards and the 2-day
Junior version: culture and tourist transportation for free, plus plenty of discounts on leisure time
activities and a reduced price entry tickets to the Book Fair.
In collaboration with daily newspaper La Stampa and Espress Edizioni, Turismo Torino &
Provincia presents Books on the bus, evocative tours aboard the City Sightseeing tourist buses in
the company of renowned Turin writers, according to the following calendar: 10 and 11 May Marco
Magnone and Edoardo Bergamin, L’altra Torino; 12 May Luca Ragagnin, Marmo rosso; 13 May
Fabrizio Vespa, Mal di Torino; 18 and 19 May Giuseppe Culicchia, Torino è casa mia; 25 May
Luca Ragagnin and Enrico Remmert, Rossenotti / Marmo rosso; 26 May Fabrizio Vespa, Mal di
Torino. Fare: €10.00 adults, €5.00 children and teens (aged 5 to 15).
Made in Torino. Tour the Excellent. Two special tours to discover outstanding Turin-based
enterprises in the culture and information sector: Alberto Tallone Editore, the oldest print
atelier still active in Europe, in Alpignano (Friday 11 May at 2:00 p.m. / Tuesday 14 May at 9:30
a.m.); a suggestive night-time tour amid the historical archives and the editorial offices of the Turin
daily La Stampa (Friday 18 May at 10:00 p.m.).
Holders of a Torino+Piemonte Card, tickets for the Torino City Sightseeing buses and the “Made in
Torino” company visit tour participation badge may profit from a discounted admission ticket to
the Fair; holders of an admission ticket to the Fair are entitled to a favourable rate for the
purchase of the Torino+Piemonte Card, a 10% reduction on the price of the City Sightseeing bus
tickets and a 20% on “Made in Torino” company visit tours.
Information
and
reservations:
www.turismotorino.org/it/salonelibro.
Turismo
Torino
&
Provincia,
011
535181,
The Book Fair is on Twitter: you can follow it too
Starting with this year’s edition, the International Book Fair is on Twitter to give everyone a chance
to learn about, and comment on, the main events taking place at the Fair in real time. You may
become a follower: @SalonedelLibro. Take part in the discussion and tweet using the official
hashtags of the 2012 Book Fair: #SalTo12 and #SalToff.
Thematic projects have accounts of their own: @Booktofuture, @DimMusica and @Incubatore.
Also joining the conversation is @LingottoFiere, that will provide information and updates on
organisational aspects and will clarify doubts and answer any questions formulated by visitors: a
veritable customer care service, with constant, timely interaction. The goal is to beat the record
set last year when the Book Fair related debate was a trending topic in Italy for over two days.
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