{"id":7023,"date":"2025-10-01T11:00:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T11:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=7023"},"modified":"2025-10-01T11:00:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T11:00:41","slug":"romania-guest-country-at-pisa-book-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=7023","title":{"rendered":"Romania, guest country at Pisa Book Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Romania is the guest country at this year&#8217;s edition of the <em>Pisa Book Festival<\/em>, the literary fair and festival dedicated to independent publishing houses, which has been organized for over two decades in the historic Italian city.<\/p>\n<p>Romanian authors Mircea C\u0103rt\u0103rescu, Irina \u021aurcanu, and Andreea Simionel will participate in Q&amp;A sessions with Italian writers and journalists, taking questions from the public.<\/p>\n<p>C\u0103rt\u0103rescu will open Romania&#8217;s program on October 2, at an event at the Auditorium of the Museo delle Navi Antiche, in a talk with professor and translator Bruno Mazzoni. At the same venue, he will meet the public again to discuss &#8220;the writer&#8217;s creative laboratory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mazzoni has translated much of C\u0103rt\u0103rescu&#8217;s work into Italian, including the <em>Orbitor<\/em> trilogy, published by Voland Publishing House between 2008 and 2016. He also translated <em>Solenoide<\/em> (Il Saggiatore Publishing House, 2021), <em>Melancolia<\/em> (La nave di Teseo Publishing House, 2022), and <em>Theodoros<\/em> (Il Saggiatore Publishing House, 2024).<\/p>\n<p>On October 3, 2025, professors Emilia David, Eva Marinai, and Dan Octavian Cepraga will present the work of Romanian writer and playwright Matei Vi\u015fniec. On October 4, Irina \u0162urcanu, a Romanian author living in the diaspora, will discuss her work with journalist Francesca Franceschi, starting from her recent novel <em>Manca il sole ma si sta bene lo stesso<\/em>, published by Marsilio Publishing House.<\/p>\n<p>Swiss writer of Romanian origin Eug\u00e8ne Meiltz will present the novel <em>Lettera al mio dittatore <\/em>on October 4, while author Andreea Simionel, who lives in Italy, will talk about her book <em>Male a est<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The Pisa Book Festival will take place from October 2 to October 5. Ninety independent publishers from every region of Italy will participate in the event, which features meetings with authors, history lessons, masterclasses, reading marathons, and many guest appearances.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Illustration: Romanian Cultural Institute)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>simona@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romania is the guest country at this year&#8217;s edition of the Pisa Book Festival, the literary fair and festival dedicated to independent publishing houses, which has been organized for over two decades in the historic Italian city. Romanian authors Mircea C\u0103rt\u0103rescu, Irina \u021aurcanu, and Andreea Simionel will participate in Q&amp;A sessions with Italian writers and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}