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	15/1/2011 FOLLOWING THE SUCCESS OF “L’ULTIMO LIBRO” (THE LAST BOOK), THE FIRST NOVEL BY BELGRADE WRITER ZORAN ŽIVKOVIĆ TO BE PUBLISHED IN ITALIAN, TEA RELEASE THE SECOND ONE, “SEI BIBLIOTECHE” (SIX LIBRARIES). Živković continues his inimitable narrative exploration of the book world with a series of interconnected short stories about libraries, from the personal and public to the truly unsettling, as is his wont. In the author’s words, this is not a collection of stories, rather it is a ‘mosaic-novel’. More... 13/1/2011 BORGEN VORLAG ACQUIRE DANISH RIGHTS IN “THE FRANCIS FACTOR. SEARCHING FOR A NEW DEFINITION OF WEALTH”, BY KRISTIN FLOOD, ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN NORWAY BY J. M. STENERSENS PUBLISHING. “I yearn to find Francis’ heart – and then reach into my own”. A narrative non-fiction book that weaves the life of Saint Francis with the transformations taking place in a 45-year-old woman as she travels around Assisi. Who is truly rich? More... 9/12/2010 WULF DORN, GERMAN AUTHOR OF “LA PSICHIATRA”, THE PSYCHO-THRILLER THAT HAS SPENT THE PAST THREE MONTHS IN THE ITALIAN TOP TEN CHART, ATTENDS THE NOIR FESTIVAL IN COURMAYEUR. The successful festival, held in the famous resort at the foot of Mont Blanc, has reached its twentieth edition and this year hosted, among others, top noir author Michael Connelly, winner of the Raymond Chandler Award. Dorn’s fans have bought nearly 100.000 copies of his thriller and were loudly appreciative of his presence. More... 2/12/2010 PUBLISHER EDICIONES B RELEASES “LA ENCICLOPEDIA. GUÍA NO AUTORIZADA DE LAS NOVELAS Y EL MUNDO DE HARRY POTTER”, THE SPANISH TRANSLATION OF “THE LEXICON”, BY STEVE VANDER ARK. Spanish is the sixth language - after French, Italian, Dutch, Czech and Slovak - in which the successful encyclopaedia, the book version of the N. 1 Potter website, The harry Potter Lexicon, has been translated. More... More... 13/11/2010 VAURO SENESI’S NEW WORK OF SATIRE, “FARABUTTO. DICHIARAZIONI D’AMORE MOLESTO” (SCOUNDREL. DECLARATIONS OF BOTHERSOME LOVE) IS RELEASED BY PIEMME. Incorrigibly sarcastic and poisonous, but also unexpectedly poetic, this is a collection of Vauro’s satirical musings on the situation in Italy, as broadcast by a Swiss-Italian radio program and collected here (with some of his cartoons, of course) by Piemme), the publisher of Vauro’s novels (three so far). More... More... 2/11/2010 MONDADORI RELEASE “NON SARÁ LA TERRA”, BY JORGE VOLPI, WHOSE PREVIOUS PRIZE-WINNING NOVEL “IN CERCA DI KLINGSOR” THEY HAD PUBLISHED IN 2001. Jorge Volpi (Mexico City, 1968) is a founding member of the Mexican literary Crack Movement. He gained a wide readership with his novel In Search of Klingsor, which was translated into 21 languages. He currently directs the Mexican cultural TV channel Canal 22. More... 23/10/2010 UITGEVERIJ NIJGH & VAN DITMAR ACQUIRE DUTCH RIGHTS IN THE FRENCH NOVEL “LIBRE, SEUL ET ASSOUPI” (FREE, LONESOME AND DROWSY), BY ROMAIN MONNERY, ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY AU DIABLE VAUVERT. The novel is an ironic take on a new generation of unemployed youth who no longer look for work. “I was a child of the precarious generation and I quickly realized that aiming for a job upon leaving school was like jumping out of the plane without a parachute”. More... More... 20/10/2010 SONZOGNO ACQUIRE ITALIAN RIGHTS IN “NO ES TAN FÁCIL LLEVAR BRAGAS”, BY ANA MANRIQUE, A NOVEL DESCRIBED BY THE SPANISH PRESS AS “UNA NOVELA LLENA DE RABIA DE MUJER”. Carmen, Rebeca and Susana are three women full of anger against the world and themselves, caught as they are in lives that are the antithesis of their respective dreams. A book that is el reverso realista de las novelas chick lit. More... 15/10/2010 MONDADORI RELEASE “LA NOTTE HA CAMBIATO RUMORE”, BY MARIA DUEÑAS, THE ITALIAN TRANSLATION OF SPANISH CIVIL WAR BESTSELLER “EL TIEMPO ENTRE COSTURAS”. Described as The Shadow of the Wind meets Casablanca, the novel has grown by word-of-mouth since it came out in Spain, holding the No. 1 spot for several months and selling more than 500,000 copies in less than a year. More... 12/10/2010 THROUGH IL CADUCEO’S CO-AGENTS, THE ENGLISH AGENCY (JAPAN), JAPANESE PUBLISHER PHP INSTITUTE ACQUIRE RIGHTS IN “IL PALLONE NON É SEMPRE ROTONDO” (THE BALL IS NOT ALWAYS ROUND), BY ALBERTO ZACCHERONI. Zaccheroni is the new Italian coach of the Samurai Blues, Japan\'s national football team. His first challenge will be the Asia Cup, which kicks off in Qatar on January 7th, 2011. The former Juventus, AC Milan and Inter Milan coach wrote the short book 12 years ago, when he trained Udinese, but it contains autobiographical details and nuggets of his ‘football philosophy’ that should delight Japanese fans. More... 10/10/2010 PONTE ALLE GRAZIE RELEASE “IL CANDIDATO LETTONE. INEDITE AVVENTURE DI UN ALIENO IN EUROPA” (THE LATVIAN CANDIDATE. THE UNSUNG ADVENTURES OF AN ALIEN IN EUROPE), BY GIULIETTO CHIESA. Journalist and former Euro-Parliamentarian Giulietta Chiesa tells the story of his 2009 campaign to be elected as a Latvian delegate to Bruxelles. Today’s Latvia still prefers Nazis (old and new) to Russians (old and new). Chiesa’s provocative memoir describes the country he found, coming as a foreigner to defend the rights of the Russian minority. His ironic book is more than a political diary, it tells truths about Europe that most Europeans are not aware of. More... More... 4/10/2010 STARTING WITH TONIGHT’S RECEPTION AND UNTIL JANUARY 31, 2011, WORKS BY MAVERIK POLITICAL CARTOONIST VINCINO WILL BE ON EXHIBITION AT THE CORSOMAGENTA10 GALLERY IN MILAN. After the success of the volume commemorating the late 70s satirical magazine Il Male, in 2008 Rizzoli published Poteri Morti (Dead Powers), an anthology of the second Italian republic’s 16 years as seen through Vincino’s cartoons. More... More... 1/10/2010 FRENCH PUBLISHER LES PROVINCIALES RELEASES “L’EUROPE ET LE SPECTRE DU CALIFAT”, BY BAT YE’OR, ALSO DUE OUT IN 2011 FROM ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD WITH THE TITLE “THE COMING UNIVERSAL CALIPHATE”. The controversial study examines the steps taken by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) in its march toward a Universal Caliphate, exposing the means by which it hijacked the United Nations and penetrated the economy, politics, culture and media of European countries. The book was originally published in Italy by Edizioni Lindau in 2009 as Verso il Califfato universale: Come l\\\'Europa è diventata complice dell\\\'espansionismo musulmano. More... More... 24/9/2010 AÍSARA ACQUIRES ITALIAN RIGHTS IN TWO NOVELS BY FRENCH/BRAZILIAN AUTHOR RÉGIS DE SÀ MOREIRA, “MARI ET FEMME” AND “LE LIBRAIRE”. Régis De Sà Moreira is published by Au Diable Vauvert in France and his Le Libraire has been translated into German by Droemer Knaur as Das geheime Leben der Bücher. More... More... 28/8/2010 DUTCH RIGHTS IN VAURO SENESI’S FIRST NOVEL, “KUALID CHE NON RIUSCIVA A SOGNARE” (KUALID WHO COULDN’T DREAM) ARE SOLD TO AMSTERDAM PUBLISHER KARAKTER. Vauro’s first two novels, respectively set in Afghanistan and Irak, have so far found publishers in Spain (Ediciones Ambar) and the Netherlands. Karakter had already translated Il mago del vento (The Wizard of the Wind). More... More... 21/7/2010 JULIAN SANCHEZ’S BESTSELLING NOVEL, “L’ANTIQUARIO” IS RELEASED BY STILE LIBERO (EINAUDI). Sánchez’s compelling theological thriller is set in Barcellona and revolves around a mysterious kabbalistic book. Library Journal writes that This latest addition to the Da Vinci Code readalikes is in many ways superior to it. More... 10/7/2010 CORBACCIO ACQUIRE ITALIAN RIGHTS IN CHARLOTTE LINK’S NEW NOVEL, “DIE SUENDE DER ENGELS”. Corbaccio have published more than ten novels by the bestselling German author, among them L’ospite sconosciuto (Der fremde Gast), La casa delle sorelle (Das Haus der Schwestern) and La doppia vita (Die Tauschung). Fitzek. More... More... 8/7/2010 ELLIOT ACQUIRE ITALIAN RIGHTS IN SEBASTIAN FITZEK’S NEW NOVEL, “DER AUGENSAMMLER” Elliot have already published Il ladro di anime (Das Seelenbrecher) , Il bambino (Das Kind) and Schegge (Splitter). Fitzek is a master of the new genre known as psychothriller and in Germany his novels have sold millions of copies since 2006. More... More... 28/6/2010 CORBACCIO BUYS ITALIAN RIGHTS IN “KALTE STILLE”, THE NEW NOVEL BY GERMAN PSYCHO-THRILLER AUTHOR WULF DORN The publisher will release Dorn’s previous title, Trigger, in September with the title La Psichiatra, but the author\'s runaway success in Germany convinced them to secure the new title before seeing how the first one will do. More... 26/6/2010 POLITICAL CARTOONIST VINCINO IS AWARDED THE 2010 VIAREGGIO PRIZE FOR JOURNALISM IN A CEREMONY ON A TERRACE OVERLOOKING THE SEASIDE RESORT Vincino, whose real name is Vincenzo Gallo, has mercilessly satirized almost every character on the Italian political stage for the last forty years, most recently in the pages of the Corriere della Sera, Il Foglio and Vanity Fair. He was awarded the Premio Giornalistico viareggioterzapagina-Cesare Garboli. More... More... 23/6/2010 MACEDONIAN RIGHTS IN RACHEL TREZISE’S COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES “FRESH APPLES” SOLD TO VERMILION PUBLISHING OF SKOPJE Winner of the Dylan Thomas Award in 2006, Rachel Trezise\'s first collection of short stories contains wry and defiant statements on the power and the beautiful transience of youth. One of a growing number of sales of Parthian’s eclectic, literary titles in countries on the margins of the editorial circuit like Egypt, Lybia, Macedonia and others. More... 12/6/2010 FOLLOWING THE CRITICAL AND COMMERCIAL SUCCESS OF “L’ULTIMO LIBRO” (THE LAST BOOK), THE FIRST NOVEL BY BELGRADE WRITER ZORAN ŽIVKOVIĆ TO BE PUBLISHED IN ITALIAN, TEA BUYS RIGHTS IN “THE LIBRARY”. Živković continues to push, as he writes in his website, “the boundaries of the strange and surreal”. He has been called “The Borges of the Balkans” for the stimulating metaphysical (and sometimes paradoxical) dimension of his writings. His work has been translated into over a dozen languages. More... 9/6/2010 ARABIC RIGHTS IN THE CLASSIC 1935 WELSH NOVEL BLACK PARADE, BY JACK JONES, SOLD TO LYBIAN PUBLISHER ALTAWOSEL OF BENGASI. In the novel, one of the classic titles in the Welsh Library series published by Parthian Books, writer, soldier and political activist Jack Jones creates a superbly riotous, clear and unsentimental picture of Merthyr life as his home-town reels headlong into the twentieth century. More... 27/5/2010 MARKUS HEITZ’S NEW NOVEL, LA LEGGENDA DEGLI ALBI (THE LEGEND OF THE ALBI) IS RELEASED BY NORD Heitz is among the bestselling authors of fantasy in Germany and his Wars of the Dwarves cycle has now started coming out in English from Little, Brown. Nord have already published Il destino dei nani, Le cinque stirpi, La guerra dei nani and La vendetta dei nani More... 28/4/2010 SEBASTIAN FITZEK’S NEW NOVEL, SCHEGGE (SPLITTER) IS RELEASED BY ELLIOT Fitzek is a master of the new genre known as psychothriller and in Germany his novels have sold millions of copies since 2006. Elliot have already published Il ladro di anime (Das Seelenbrecher) and Il bambino (Das Kind) More... 22/4/2010 FRENCH RIGHTS IN BAT YE’OR’S NEW STUDY VERSO IL CALIFFATO UNIVERSALE (TOWARDS THE UNIVERSAL CALIPHATE) SOLD TO EDITIONS LES PROVINCIALES Bat Ye’or’s new work, a denunciation of the global strategy and agenda of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), was first released by Turin publisher Lindau in 2009. The controversial Egyptian historian’s best known work is Eurabia, translated to date in seven languages. More... More... 15/4/2010 LEONARDO DA VINCI’S MUSICAL GIFTS AND JEWISH CONNECTIONS, THE REVOLUTIONARY WORK ON THE LAST SUPPER BY ITALIAN MUSICOLOGIST GIOVANNI MARIA PALA, IS RELEASED BY THE AMERICA’S GROUP (CALIFORNIA) Decoding “The Last Supper” (NAPS) — A new book by an Italian musicologist holds that Leonardo Da Vinci’s painting “The Last Supper” could be more than a feast for the eyes. It could also be music to the ears. The author documents his discovery of musical notes formed by the bread, hands and fruit on the dining table. Also, contrary to Dan Brown’s assertion in “The Da Vinci Code” that the artist used an image of Mary Magdalene in his portrayal of St. John, this book asserts that Leonardo captured his mother’s face in the painting. More... More... 13/4/2010 CARLO PIZZATI’S NEW WORK, TECNOSCIAMANI, IS RELEASED BY FBE Technoshamans is an illuminating narrative non-fiction book that the author wrote as he roamed the world searching for relief from a bad back which has tortured him for twenty years. But the backache is the pretext for the real object of the quest: the places where technology and spirituality intersect. Pizzati’s irony and self-deprecating humour make his insights on the frontier between body and soul all the more delightful. More... More... 22/3/2010 TURKISH RIGHTS IN GREGOIRE HERVIER’S NOVEL SCREAM TEST SOLD TO TURKISH PUBLISHER ELIPS KITAP The Last One is the ultimate TV show: Six days, six bullets, six losers, one survivor. Who will be the last one ? The decision is yours to make … A ferocious critique of our cathode-tube world. Just keep telling yourself it’s only a novel, though brilliant and unclassifiable, probably the very first literary slasher. More... 19/3/2010 ALESSANDRO SPONZILLI’S NEW NOVEL, IL SIGNORE DEL SOLE NASCENTE (THE LORD OF THE RISING SUN), IS RELEASED BY PIEMME The novel, set in ancient Sumer, tells the story of Sargon, founder of the Akkadian dynasty and the first king to unite the peoples of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, but in the foreground is the king’s adoptive father, an anti-hero called Akki. “I read it quickly and all the while rooting for Akki! What a wonderful character, so real, so human, with fears and weaknesses he’s so aware of. A historical novel that teaches much about antiquity but a gripping tale at the same time … Bravo Sponzilli and thanks! - Giusy (from the publisher’s blog). More... More... 5/3/2010 VAURO’S THIRD NOVEL, THE BOX OF LOST SOX, WAS AMONG THE SIX WINNERS OF THE PREMIO SELEZIONE BANCARELLA, ONE OF WHICH WILL BE AWARDED THE BANCARELLA PRIZE IN PONTREMOLI ON JULY 18 The Box of Lost Socks is a rich tapestry, showing today’s Rome as a human landscape in which solidarity is only apparent, crowded with different characters: cops, immigrants, priests, women - saintly or slutty - exploiters and fake “progressives”, walk-ons and many more. And relationships: indifference, friendships, love, traps and conflicts. Vauro tells these stories with the same passion and talented eye with which he draws his cartoons. - La Repubblica More... More... 19/2/2010 BRAZILIAN RIGHTS IN PAUL DESALMAND’S NOVEL LE PILON SOLD TO BRAZILIAN PUBLISHER EDITORA OCTAVO LTDA A book looks back on its past, from the day it left the presses to its hopeful departure for the African continent. Twenty years of rather adventurous life. It loves, it is loved, it risks its life, meets readers of both sexes, argues with other volumes in bookshops and libraries, wonders out loud about the world’s chaotic march. A picaresque noveL and an amusing meditation on our own transience, coupled with Queneau-like variations on the word “pilon” (in French, the pulping of waste paper). More... 15/2/2010 MOVIE RIGHTS TO THE NOVELLA TREE OF CROWS, BY LEWIS DAVIES, HAVE BEEN OPTIONED BY SOUTH AFRICAN PRODUCTION HOUSE STEALTH DONKEY MOVING PICTURES A gothic novella set in the Welsh mountains, Tree of Crows was very well reviewed when Parthian Books originally published it in 2003, with many writing that it would make a brilliant black and white film. More... 9/2/2010 WORLD SPANISH RIGHTS IN DEBORAH KEY DAVIES’S NOVEL GRACE, TAMAR AND LASZLO THE BEAUTIFUL SOLD TO ARGENTINIAN PUBLISHER BAJO LA LUNA EDITORIAL Set in the eastern valleys of south Wales from 1970 to the present day, this collection of short stories relates the history of Grace and Tamar, their volatile childhood, disruptive coming-of-age and dubious maturity. Part novel, part fantasy, part social history, it tells dark, universal tales about how utterly strange it is to learn to be human. More... 21/1/2010 SIMPLIFIED CHINESE RIGHTS IN RICHARD GWYN’S NOVEL THE COLOUR OF A DOG RUNNING AWAY SOLD TO CHINESE PUBLISHER NEW STAR PRESS This the seventh language in which the charming novel set in Barcelona has been sold (although its Turkish publisher later had to renounce publication). Gwyn’s publishers include Doubleday in New York, AST in Moscow and Roca Editorial in Spain. More... 19/1/2010 FLAVIO BARBIERO’S NEW WORK, THE SECRET SOCIETY OF MOSES, IS RELEASED BY INNER TRADITIONS The book’s subtitle, The Mosaic Bloodline and a Conspiracy Spanning Three Millennia, gives a good idea of the enormous historical span of Barbiero’s latest thesis, which convincingly argues the existence of a legacy connecting the Priestly families in pre-Roman Jerusalem, Mithraism and Freemasonry, the man linking them all together being the Jewish/Roman historian Josephus Flavius. More... More... 10/1/2010 ARABIC RIGHTS IN DEBORAH KEY DAVIES’S NOVEL GRACE, TAMAR AND LASZLO THE BEAUTIFUL SOLD TO EGYPTIAN PUBLISHER EL AIN Set in the eastern valleys of south Wales from 1970 to the present day, this collection of short stories relates the history of Grace and Tamar, their volatile childhood, disruptive coming-of-age and dubious maturity. Part novel, part fantasy, part social history, it tells dark, universal tales about how utterly strange it is to learn to be human. One of a growing number of sales of Parthian’s eclectic, literary titles in countries on the margins of the editorial circuit like Egypt, Lybia, Macedonia and others. More... 10/12/2009 PONTE ALLE GRAZIE, AN IMPRINT OF GRUPPO EDITORIALE MAURI SPAGNOL, WILL PUBLISH GIULIETTO CHIESA’S DIARY OF HIS RUN AS A LATVIAN CANDIDATE TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT IN 2009 Chiesa, who spent five years in the European Parliament for an Italian party, chose to run as the representative of a Latvian party in 2009 to highlight the shortcomings of Europe’s attitude to recent Eastern European members and the indifference to discrimination of Russian speakers in the Baltic states. More... 28/11/2009 LEXICON, THE ITALIAN EDITION OF STEVE VANDER ARK’S HARRY POTTER ENCYCLOPAEDIA, IS RELEASED BY PIEMME The publisher, whose children’s imprint Il Battello a Vapore has had many successes, among them the adventures of publisher-mouse Geronimo Stilton, has printed some 20.000 copies of The Lexicon. More... More... 25/11/2009 IN A TWO-BOOK-DEAL, FBE EDIZIONI ACQUIRES ITALIAN RIGHTS IN THE FIRST TWO NOVELS IN THE MRS D’SILVA DETECTIVE SERIES, Written by Glen Peters and originally published by Parthian Books, the first novel in the series, Mrs D\'Silva\'s Detective Instincts and the Shaitan of Calcutta, is set in the early Sixties in the bustling Indian city and will be published in Italian in 2010. More... 25/11/2009 DOMANI, UN’OASI, THE ITALIAN EDITION OF AYERDHAL’S DEMAIN UNE OASIS, IS RELEASED BY NORD A doctor is kidnapped from Geneva, taken somewhere in Africa, and forced to cure local patients in a totally inadequate structure. Winner of the prestigious Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire, Ayerdhal’s new novel both moves and shocks the reader as it outlines the future of a world – our world – that refuses to surrender to its soulless fate. More... 15/11/2009 LA NOTTE IN CUI SPARÍ L’ULTIMO POLLO (THE NIGHT THE LAST CHICKEN DISAPPEARED), SIMONETTA TASSINARI’S SECOND NOVEL, IS RELEASED BY GIUNTI An ironic and nostalgic look at the unforgettable events of 1969 (the landing on the moon, Woodstock and much more) as seen through the eyes of the 11-year-old protagonist and a small band of her friends and co-conspirators. More.. 13/11/2009 KUALID WHO COULDN’T DREAM, BY NOTED POLITICAL CARTOONIST VAURO, IS AWARDED THE PREMIO CITTÁ DI CUNEO PER IL PRIMO ROMANZO (CITY OF CUNEO FIRST NOVEL AWARD) An audio book of the novel, set in Afghanistan and published by Piemme in 2007, will also be produced by Cuneo’s Public Library in association with the local Blind People’s Association and distributed freely to the visually impaired. More.. 12/11/2009 BEHIND THE SPANISH BARRICADES, THE FAMOUS ACCOUNT OF ENGLISH JOURNALIST JOHN LANGDON-DAVIES’S 1936 MOTORCYCLE JOURNEY THROUGH SPAIN, IS PUBLISHED IN BOTH SPANISH AND CATALAN. Langdon Davies’s riveting correspondence from a civil-war-riven Iberian peninsula was republished for the first time in seventy years by Reportage Press and has now been released by Penìnsula in Spanish and by Angle Editorial in Catalan. More... 22/10/2009 BAT YE’OR’S HISTORICAL STUDY THE DECLINE OF EASTERN CHRISTIANITY UNDER ISLAM IS RELEASED BY LINDAU After publishing Eurabia and Verso il Califfato Universale, Turin publisher Lindau have now translated the controversial Egyptian historian’s rigorously documented account of the fate of the world’s oldest Christian communities in Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and elsewhere over the last two centuries. More.. 19/10/2009 ALAIN DAMASIO’S CULT NOVEL LA HORDE DU CONTREVENT, WINNER OF THE 2006 PRIX DE L’IMAGINAIRE, IS PUBLISHED BY NORD WITH THE TITLE L’ORDA DEL VENTO Damasio’s unique literary achievement, the story of the thirty-fourth Windward Horde told by its twenty-three members, has sold over 60.000 copies in France, where it is considered a milestone in the evolution of science-fiction/fantasy writing. The Horde, like the thirty-three hordes that preceded it, climbs windward in a world perennially swept by gales, in the attempt to discover the source of the wind. More.. 28/9/2009 FRENCH RIGHTS IN ANIME NERE (BLACK SOULS), GIOACCHINO CRIACO’S NOVEL ON THE CALABRIAN ‘NDRANGHETA, SOLD TO ÉDITIONS MÉTAILIÉ Métailié, who already translated several prestigious Italian authors of noir and ‘polar’ such as Andrea Camilleri, Giancarlo De Cataldo, Massimo Carlotto and others, recognized the quality and almost disquieting veracity of Criaco’s first novel. Rubbettino, his publisher, have meanwhile just released his second noir, Zefira. More.. 23/9/2009 FIRST NOVEL BY GIACOMO LOPEZ, NON RESTERÁ LA NOTTE (NIGHT WILL NOT REMAIN) RELEASED BY MARSILIO An intense psychological ‘noir’, Lopez’s debut novel follows a young woman who lies down to rest in a big Roman park on Christmas eve, only to wake up sightless. The nightmarish experience of searching for a way out of the park is a metaphor for the mental blindness of humans that Lopez uses to great effect. More.. 28/7/2009 GIULIO MAGLI IS APPOINTED TO UNESCO WORKING GROUP THAT WILL SELECT WORLD HERITAGE ARCHAEOASTRONOMICAL SITES Milan physics Professor Giulio Magli, author of MYSTERIES AND DISCOVERIES OF ARCHAEOASTRONOMY, will be part of a twelve-member team of scientists who will determine which of the world’s archaeological sites are to be protected and promoted as having the clearest connection to ancient astronomical lore. More.. 20/6/2009 LUIGI SPAGNOL’S ESOTERIC THRILLER LA SIGNORA DELLA NOTTE (THE HOLY MISTRESS) IS RELEASED BY PIEMME Spagnol’s fast-paced, erudite and ironic story pairs a highly unusual couple of involuntary investigators – an Apulian mafia boss and a Professor of History of Religions – in a search for the Staff of Moses that will pit them against a secret early-eighteenth-century sect, the Frankists, that everyone thought had fizzled out. More.. 30/4/2009 PAUL DESALMAND’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A BOOK RELEASED IN ITALY Le Pilon (The Pulper), by Paul Desalmand, the picaresque story of book endearingly told by the book itself, is soon to be published by Mondadori imprint Edizioni Piemme. PRENDIMI CON TE should be in Italian bookstores on May 5th in a translation by Maria Moresco. 22/4/2009 SECOND VAURO NOVEL SOLD IN SPAIN Spanish rights in Il mago del vento (The Wizard of the Wind), Vauro Senesi’s second novel, have been bought by Ámbar, the Barcelona imprint who a month ago released the Spanish edition of Vauro’s previous novel, Kualid che non riusciva a sognare (Kualid Who Couldn’t Dream), the story of an Afghan 12-year-old that sold almost 30.000 copies in Italy. EL NIÑO QUE NO SABÍA SOÑAR was translated by Manuel Manzano. 14/3/2009 ITALIAN EDITION OF THE LONG DRY RELEASED ISBN Edizioni just released the Italian edition of The Long Dry, the short but powerful novel by young Welsh author Cynan Jones. Rights in this work had previously been sold in Turkey and Egypt. 22/2/2009 AUTHOR GIOVANNI PALA INTERVIEWED BY JAPANESE TV Giovanni Pala, author of the study La musica celata (The Hidden Music), was interviewed for a documentary telling the story of his exceptional discovery of a forty-second hymn that Leonardo, in one of his most successful riddles, wrote into his famous Last Supper fresco in Milan. Dr Pala also played the musical phrase on the organ in the Santa Maria delle Grazie church, in whose refectory the freso is located. 20/1/2009 AUTHOR GIANCARLO GENTA ORGANIZING SPACE TRAVEL CONGRESS Giancarlo Genta, whose book on extraterrestrial intelligence, Lonely Minds in the Universe (Springer, 2008), will be published in Italy by Edizioni Lindau next year, is working on the organization of the Sixth IAA Symposium on Realistic Near-Term Advanced Scientific Space Missions - Missions to the Outer Solar System and Beyond, to be held in Aosta in July 2009.
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