Librissimi - Toronto Italian Book Festival 2018
Columbus Centre - 901 Lawrence Avenue West
Saturday May 5th 2018 - 10 am to 6 pm
Opening Cocktails - Friday May 4th 6:30 pm
FREE ADMISSION
We are proud to present in this edition of the Festival, an impressive line-up of writers, from the seasoned and well-know trailblazers to the younger authors adding their generation’s point of view. Thanks to our Programming Partners we can welcome writers from around the corner and from far away. Be sure to check them all out.
Daniele Bartolini è un artista nato a Firenze e residente a Toronto. Nominato per il Telus New Comer Artist Award e vincitore del premio RBC Art Access Fund della città di Toronto, ha ricevuto la menzione per la miglior regia e produzione da parte di Now Magazine – Best of the Fest per lo spettacolo The Stranger. Le sue creazioni, chiamate audience specific, coinvolgono il pubblico in maniera attiva trasformando gli spettatori in attori e co-autori della loro stessa esperienza. I suoi spettacoli sono stati presentati in Nord America, Europa e India.
Angelo Bolotta is a career educator, curriculum leader, administrator, consultant, university instructor and author with over 40 years of experience in public education. He is the author of numerous textbooks and educational publications about civics, Canadian history, economics, the immigrant experience, and student assessment
The Voice of Labour
From career educator, curriculum leader, and administrator Angelo Bolotta, a crucial handbook that integrates critical thinking and media literacy to refocus democratic dreams on more constructive collective pursuits, to re-energize dreamers, and to help hold elected leaders more accountable for their actions and omissions.
Lawyer and former Chairman of Cassels Brock and Blackwell; former Chief Legal Officer and Chairman of Management Committee of Biovail Corporation; author of Finding Marco and The Distant Whisper; Executive Producer of motion picture: From the Vine; Board Member and Treasurer of icff (Italian Contemporary Film Festival; former Board member of Villa Chatities, Vita Community Living and Mens Sana-Families for Mental Health; Lucano Insigne designation; Spirit of Ontario recipient for Entrepreneur of the Year.
Finding Marco
Finding your roots; epiphany from aggressive and ambitious executive to introspective and reflective person who recognizes the importance of generosity and humility as pillars of life
Class Clown
More punk than prog, neither light nor overweight, the verse in Pino Coluccio’s second book hews to the classic themes of love, death and the passage of time, while presenting a cast of longers and losers whose admirable stubborn pluck is also at times tragic. A collection that above all champions that highest of human art forms: clowning around.
“La vita quotidiana nel ghetto di Ferrara nel settecento.” (Manoscritto del ‘700)
L’ argomento trattato in questa presentazione e’ basato su un manoscritto inedito e anonimo (in versi e in dialetto) della meta’ del Settecento. E’ un testo che, malgrado i nodi ancora da risolvere sull’autore e altro, illustra con grande realismo scene di vita cittadina e aspetti della societa’ ebraica del ghetto.
Bruna Di Giuseppe lovara and vive a Toronto. La pittura e lo scrivere sono passioni della sua vita. Ha vinto premi letterari per le sue poesie. I suoi racconti e poesie sono in varie Antologie sia in Italia e in Canada. Sentieri D’italia, Ad ogni ritorno, I call my grandmother nonna, ultima opera, Diario di un Tufarolo.
Finding Marco
Il diario di un Tufarolo, e’ la vita di un ragazzo che ha sofferto prima, durante e dopo la guerra. Il racconto e’ concreto senza fronzoli, scarna e dolorosamente commovente. Una storia vera
A Jar of Fireflies
Memories light up the landscapes of our nights like fireflies: places, loves, children, friends, lighting up our lives to defy despair. Small tinder sticks of hope. Little miracles twinkling in the dark. A book dedicated to my mother and my children.
La Brigantessa
In southern Italy in 1862, when Gabriella is forced into hiding for the alleged murder of a wealthy landowner, she falls under the protection of a notorious brigand chief in a world where the boundaries between good and evil are blurred.
Guerra bambina
Se un bambino ti chiedesse cos’è la guerra, cosa risponderesti? Guerra bambina unisce l’essenzialità della poesia e la forza delle immagini per dare una risposta a questo interrogativo.
Award winning author/poet of 8 books of poetry, one children’s book and a collections of Short Fiction
All My Fallen Angelas
Collection of short stories whose characters are italian/canadian women living in Toronto. “These stories will charm you and chill you and break your heart.”
Nino Ricci
Where Angels Come to Earth: An Evocation of the Italian Piazza
Where Angels Come to Earth is an unprecedented visual and poetic journey that allows readers to appreciate the Italian piazza like no other book in the English language. With a combination of artistic documentary photographs and lyrical texts, it reveals both the grit and beauty of daily life in Italian piazzas.
Goodbye Irpinia
Primo Paper novel al mondo, Goodbye Irpinia è romanzo-inchiesta tra fiction e realtà, da Toronto a Montaguto, da Canada a Italia, un thriller che intreccia detection giornalistica e atmosfere soprannaturali. Ma anche un atto d’amore verso tutti gli emigrati che soffrono lontani dalla propria terra. www.goodbyeirpinia.it
Giovanna Riccio is a graduate of the University of Toronto where she studied philosophy. Her poems have appeared in national and international journals and magazines as well as numerous anthologies. Translations of her poems have been published in Italian, French and Romanian. She is the author of Vittorio and Strong Bread.
Plastic’s Republic
In this genre-bending collection released on Barbie’s 60th birthday, Giovanna Riccio delves into Barbie’s impact on female beauty highlighting how plasticity in body and persona have allowed the doll to remain top-diva.
La guerra secondo Michele
“La guerra secondo Michele” is a novel, rich of historical details, based on the true story of Michele, who has been a prisoner of the German Army during the Second World War. There, he met the love of his life, Tamara.
The Voice of Labour
The book follows Marino’s life as a prominent labour leader in what was known as the “jungle” period of Toronto’s busy construction period between 1952 and the late 1970s and ends with his completion of the Italian Fallen Workers Memorial Wall, which honours the many men of Italian origin who were killed in workplace tragedies while building up this country.
| Name | Panel | Stage | Presenting | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mattia Bello | Storis Nostris – Friulian Story Time | Children’s Stage | ||
| Mariella Bertelli | High on the Mountain, Deep in the Sea. Tales of Magic and Wonder from Italy | Children’s Stage | ||
| Joseph Cafiso | Moderator Romanzo – Telling Italian stories in Canada | Main Stage | ||
| Ken Cancellara | Independent Authors Space | |||
| Licia Canton | Independent Authors Space | The Pink House and Other Stories | Longbridge Books | |
| Domenico Capilongo | Poetry | Main Stage | Send | Guernica Editions |
| Domenic Cusmano | Moderator The Making of an Anthology: People, Places, Passages | Main | ||
| Gabriele Dadati | In Conversation with | Main Stage | L’ultima notte di Canova | Baldini + Castoldi |
| Rocco de Giacomo | Poetry Panel | Main Stage | Brace Yourselves | Quattro |
| Rina Del Nin Cralli | Poetry Panel | Main Stage | From Friuli | Longbridge |
| Bruna Di Giuseppe Bertoni | Nonna and other stories | Children’s Stage | I Call My Grandmother Nonna | Self |
| Ron Edding | Graphic Novel – the making of Bella | Children’s Stage | Bella and the Facer Street Gang | Grey Borders |
| Gina Fabiano | Italian Circle Time | Children’s Stage | ||
| Silvia Falsaperla | Tribute to Venera Fazio | Main Stage | ||
| Nino Fama | Independent Authors Stage | Il sogno di Toloma | Luigi Pellegrini | |
| Terri Favro | Graphic Novel – the making of Bella | Children’s Stage | Bella and the Facer Street Gang | Grey Borders |
| Luca Fiorentini | Moderator In Conversation with Gabriele Dadati | Main | ||
| Sara Galli | Commedia dell’ Arte and Mime Show | Children’s Stage | ||
| Paolo Granata | Storia del libro | Main Stage | ||
| Marc Labriola | Romanzo: Telling Italian Stories in Canada | Main Stage | Dying Behaviour of Cats | Quattro |
| Luca Marchetti | Accademia dei ragazzi | Children’s Stage | Poesia e piccolo recita degli allievi | |
| Robert Marrone | Romanzo: Telling Italian Stories in Canada | Main Stage | The New Vine | Guernica Editions |
| Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli | Moderator Venera Fazio Tribute | Main Stage | ||
| Caroline Morgan Di Giovanni | AICW anthology presentation | Main Stage | ||
| Antonio Nicaso | Presenting Fiumi d’oro | Main Stage | Presenting Fiumi d’oro: How ‘drangheta invests its cocaine money in legitimate economy. | Mondadori |
| Gianna Patriarca | Romanzo: Telling Italian Stories in Canada | Main Stage | All My Fallen Angelas | Inanna Publications |
| Delia Petrucci De Santis | The Making of an Anthology: People, Places, Passages
Tribute to Venera Fazio | Main Stage | People, Places, Passages | Longbridge Books |
| Enrica Piccado | Moderator History of Books | Main | ||
| Antonio Ricci | History of books | Main Stage | ||
| Alessandro Ruggera | Moderator Italian As Spoken in Canada | Main Stage | ||
| Daniela Sanzone | Independent Authors Space | La guerra secondo Michele | Pagine | |
| Barbara Turchetta | Italian as Spoken in Canada | Main Stage | ||
| Gina Valle | Horizons Exhibit | Mezzanine | The Best of All Wolrds | At One Press |
| Massimo Vedovelli | Italian as Spoken in Canada | Main Stage |
