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''Pordenonelegge.it'', ''festa del libro con gli autori'' (Italian for: "PordenoneReads: Celebrating Books and their Authors", simply known as Pordenonelegge) is a book festival held yearly in the
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town of
Pordenone Pordenone (; Venetian language, Venetian and ) is a city and (municipality) in the Italy, Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, the capital of the Province of Pordenone, Regional decentralization entity of Pordenone. The name comes from Lati ...
. The Pordenone book festival takes place over one week each September. 2015 saw its sixteenth edition.


History and guests

''pordenonelegge.it'' has hosted Italian alongside international authors of both
fiction Fiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying character (arts), individuals, events, or setting (narrative), places that are imagination, imaginary or in ways that are imaginary. Fictional portrayals are thus inconsistent ...
and
non-fiction Non-fiction (or nonfiction) is any document or content (media), media content that attempts, in good faith, to convey information only about the real life, real world, rather than being grounded in imagination. Non-fiction typically aims to pre ...
. Some of the guests include writer
Luis Sepúlveda Luis Sepúlveda Calfucura (; October 4, 1949 – April 16, 2020) was a Chilean writer and journalist. A communist militant and fervent opponent of Augusto Pinochet's regime, he was imprisoned and tortured by the military dictatorship during t ...
, philosophers
Richard Rorty Richard McKay Rorty (October 4, 1931 – June 8, 2007) was an American philosopher, historian of ideas, and public intellectual. Educated at the University of Chicago and Yale University, Rorty's academic career included appointments as the Stu ...
and
Peter Singer Peter Albert David Singer (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian moral philosopher who is Emeritus Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. Singer's work specialises in applied ethics, approaching the subject from a secu ...
, scientists
Margherita Hack Margherita Hack (; 12 June 1922 – 29 June 2013) was an Italian astrophysicist and science communicator. The asteroid 8558 Hack, discovered in 1995, was named in her honour. Biography Hack was born in Florence. Her father Roberto Hack was a Flo ...
and
Giacomo Rizzolatti Giacomo Rizzolatti (born 28 April 1937) is an Italian neurophysiologist who works at the University of Parma. Born in Kyiv, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, UkSSR, he is the Senior Scientist of the research team that discovered mirror neurons ...
, as well as
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winner
J. M. Coetzee John Maxwell Coetzee Order of Australia, AC Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, FRSL Order of Mapungubwe, OMG (born 9 February 1940) is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, and translator. The recipient of the 2003 ...
. ''pordenonelegge'' is not hosted in a single venue, but rather in the whole downtown of Pordenone, both outdoors and indoors, as more exhibitions, interviews and lectures take place simultaneously. More than 200 authors are hosted each year. The trademark color of the Pordenone book festival is yellow. Many local young people serve as volunteers. They are known as "guardian angels" as they wear yellow t-shirts with angel wings printed on the back. The Pordenone book festival has gained national attention along the years, developing into acultural events in Italy.I tanti fili d’Arianna nel labirinto della letteratura
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''pordenonelegge.it'' has positively affected the economic development of Pordenone and its
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. The artistic director is the poet Gian Mario Villalta.


References


External links

* {{Official website, http://www.pordenonelegge.it/programma-eng Literary festivals in Italy