The House of Monster goes to the Più Libri Più Liberi book fair!
This year hopefulmonster editore awaits you at the National Fair of Small and Medium Publishing in Rome at stand D70. From 4 to 8 December 2024 – Rome, Stand D70

The events of hopefulmonster:

Thu 5 dec at 2.00 pm – Sala Elettra
Chat about the topic of the short literary form
Presentation of the Pennisole series, with Dario Voltolini and Gilda Policastro

Fri 6 dec at 5.30 pm – Sala Vega
A chat about theatre and the (de)construction of historical narration
Meeting starting from the book Storia, finzioni. Cinque fughe teatrali by Attilio Scarpellini, with the participation of the author, Paola Caridi and Graziano Graziani

“Stiratore di luce” by Franco Stelzer, published by the publishing house hopefulmonster in 2023, won the XL edition of the Bergamo National Narrative Prize. In the preferences of the Popular Jury “Stiratore di luce” obtained a total of 35 votes. It preceded “L’oro è giallo” (Hacca, 2023) by Benedetta Fallucchi credited with 28 votes. In third place with 24 votes “L’ombra del vulcano” (Einaudi, 2023) by Marco Rossari, followed in fourth place with equal merit with 19 votes by “La verità e la biro” (Einaudi, 2023) by Tiziano Scarpa, and by “Le streghe non esiste” (Bompiani, 2023) by Luca Scarlini.

This is the verdict communicated on the evening of Saturday 27 April in the splendid setting of Teatro alle Grazie, live, in front of a large audience who was able to listen again to the writers known through the pages of their books, and presented in the month of March in Tiraboschi Library by Giacomo Raccis (all re-watchable on the Prize website and on YouTube).

“Our most sincere applause goes to Franco Stelzer who was able to give us and – we are sure – to all the readers who have read it or will read it, emotions through the inked pages of his volume. But our thanks, in addition to the organizers and the jury of the Prize, also go to the series director Dario Voltolini who wanted it in Pennisole” comment Beatrice Merz and Silvano Bertalot, respectively publisher and editorial director of hopefulmonster.

“Great joy for an exquisite writer who composed a pearl that we were lucky enough to host on our Pennisole!” concludes Dario Voltolini.

A work by the Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar is exhibited at the offices of the publishing house hopefulmonster editore, in via Stampatori 4, at Palazzo Scaglia di Verrua in Turin.

In the work “M’illumino d’immenso” light and word are strongly correlated. The artist takes up the shortest poem by Ungaretti, written on a day in January 1917, in times of war, in Santa Maria la Longa, creating a work that recalls the white light of the morning and that at the same time transmits a feeling of infinity. Poetry that saves, against the backdrop of war, which faces a desperate actuality in search of a reversal.
“The art of resistance”, this is how Jaar defines his research, which began in Chile at the time of Pinochet’s dictatorship and continued in New York. Some of his dearest themes are precisely art as radical change, in addition to political action and dialogue with the great thinkers of the history, in a constant reflection on the relationship between past and present, under the melancholic effigy of the revolutionary mythology.

Alfredo Jaar, “M’illumino d’immenso”, 2009, Neon, 46 x 94 x 5 cm

Do you want to admire it live?
Come visit us!

End of summer appointment

Thursday, September 28, 2023 from 7:00 p.m.
at Palazzo Scaglia di Verrua (via Stampatori 4, Turin)

On the occasion of the end of summer, the publishing house hopefulmonster editore and the other realities of Palazzo Scaglia di Verrua (the only Renaissance palace in Turin) exceptionally open their spaces to the public starting at 7 pm, inviting you to literary meetings accompanied by a live musical performance.

Program at the House of the Monster 

Speakers starting at 7:00 pm:
Francesca Bracchino reads excerpts from Italo Calvino’s Lezioni americane
Musical dialogue with Davide Bandieri and Selene Framarin – Clarinets
Following:
Interview with future Pennisole authors, Andrea Canobbio and Marta Cai, with Dario Voltolini

We are waiting for you!

Free admission, no reservations required
For more information: redazione@hopefulmonster.net