On Wednesday at the MAXXI Museum in Rome we talked about literature for three weeks. Today, Wednesday 21 November from 18.30 pm, the monumental work by architect Zaha Hadid hosts the last encounter in a cycle of three episodes starring Paul Jordan, winner of the Strega Prize 2008 for The solitude of prime numbersthe. The Strega is one of the most prestigious literary prizes for Italian authors.
Accompanied by Stefano Petrocchi, director of the Bellonci Foundation, Giordano will tell the MAXXI audience about the craft of writing and the watershed that winning the prize was for him. Last spring it came out Devour the sky edited by Einaudi.
Paolo Giordano was born in Turin in 1982. He is the author of the novels "The solitude of prime numbers" published by Mondadori in 2008 and in addition to being the winner of the Strega Prize, he was awarded the Campiello Opera Prima Prize, wrote "The human body" – Mondadori 2012 – and “Il nero e l'argento” published by Einaudi in 2014. Giordano has written for the Galois theater and Fine pena: ora.
The writer and journalist took part in the first meeting at MAXXI Maurice Maggiani who wrote The Night Traveler in 2005 which earned him the Ernest Hemingway Award, the Parco della Maiella Award and the Strega Award. The second meeting revolved around the figure of Tiziano Scarpa, Italian novelist, playwright and poet who with his novel Stabat Mater won the 2009 Strega Prize and the 2009 SuperMondello Prize.
