Matteo Corradini (born April 15, 1975,

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) is an Italian writer and

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. His books are published by

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. As author of many books for children and adults, he also holds workshops on the teaching of the memory of the

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in Italy and abroad. As hebraist, he has been researching the

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since 2002. Since then he has been back to the ghetto more than once a year. He is curator of the literary festival Scrittorincittà, in

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(Italy), and contributor to Italian newspapers

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and Popotus. He has held courses both in private universities (at the

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) and in state universities (at the

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). He has been a theatre director and has organized musical readings and conferences. Matteo Corradini’s research on the topic of the Terezin ghetto allowed him to discover original musical instruments and objects from Terezin that have since been put to use by the Pavel Zalud Quartet (founded by Corradini in 2013), and by the Pavel Zalud Orchestra (founded in 2015). Both ensembles play music composed in Terezin during the war. Corradini was the author of the speech read by Sir

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on January 27, 2015, during the ceremony held at Terezin to mark International Holocaust Memorial Day and 70 years since the liberation of Auschwitz. In recent years, Corradini has worked on events and shows with Abraham Yehoshua, Uri Orlev,

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, Assaf Gavron... Since 2017 he is the new Italian curator of

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's "

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" (published in Italy by Rizzoli). On October 26, 2017, he read some words by Anne Frank's Diary before a soccer match (

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- Spal), fighting racism and anti-semitism with the Italian Soccer Federation. In 2018 he curated the Italian edition of

's book of memories (I am a star). In 2018, he won the "Premio Andersen" in Italy, for his work about the remembrance of the Shoah. In the same year, his novel "Im Ghetto gibt es keine Schmetterlinge" was chosen by Jugend-Literatur-Jury as one of the best novels published in Germany during the last year. Matteo_Corradini_

Books

* ''Luci nella Shoah'' (2021, DeAgostini) * ''Se la notte ha cuore'' (2020, Bompiani) * ''Solo una parola'' (2019, Rizzoli) * ''Fu Stella'' (2019, Lapis) * ''Il profumo dell'Eden'' (2018, Giuntina) *

, ''Io sono una stella'' - a cura di Matteo Corradini (

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2018) * ''Im Ghetto gibt es keine Schmetterlinge'' (2017, CBJ Verlag - RandomHouse) * ''Alfabeto ebraico'' - new edition (2017, Salani) * ''La pioggia porterà le violette di maggio'' (2017, Lapis) * Anne Frank, ''Diario'' - a cura di Matteo Corradini, traduzione di Dafna Fiano (BUR Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli, Ragazzi, 2017) * Anne Frank, ''Diario'' - a cura di Matteo Corradini, traduzione di Dafna Fiano, prefazione di Sami Modiano (BUR Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli, Grandi Classici, 2017) * ''Siamo partiti cantando - Etty Hillesum, un treno, dieci canzoni'' (2016, RueBallu) * ''Improvviso scherzo notturno'' - Un viaggio nella musica di Fryderyk Chopin (2015, RueBallu) * ''Annalilla' (2014,

) * ''La pioggia porterà le violette di maggio'' (2014, Einaudi Scuola) * ''La repubblica delle farfalle'' (2013,

) * ''Alfabeto ebraico'' (2012, Salani)

References

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