24th ilb
5 – 14 Sep 2024 Program
9 – 18 Sep 2024 Young Program

Herkunft: Italy

Marco Parlato

born in Vico Equenese, Naples, in 1986. His first novel, »Tiroide« (tr. Thyroid), was published by Gorilla Sapiens Edizioni in 2014. He lives and writes in Rome, but swears he could do it elsewhere too.

Marco Archetti

Marco Archetti was born in Brescia in 1976. His first novel, “Lola Motel”, was published in 2004. As with the following work, “Vent’anni che non dormo” (t: Twenty Years Since I’ve Slept), he depicts with grotesque exaggeration and ironic mockery an aloof romantic relationship. Archetti, who is influenced by Nabokov,

Marco Mancassola

Guest at the ilb 2002 Marco Mancassola , born in 1973, lives in Padua and Rome.  He began his writing career in 1996 with short stories.  His first novel ‘Il modo senza di me’ appeared in Spring 2001.  He is currently working as a scriptwriter. © international literature festival berlin

Manuele Fior

Manuele Fior, born in 1975 in the northern Italian city of Cesena, has published five substantial comic stories to date. His work, which has attracted considerable critical acclaim, has also been recognized with numerous awards. Fior turned to comics as a creative medium after completing architecture studies in Venice in

Lorenzo Marsili

is the co-founder of European Alternatives. A long-time student of China, he initiated Transnational Dialogues, an arts exchange programme between cultural innovators in China, Brazil and Europe. He has degrees in philosophy, sociology, and Chinese studies, and is an active commentator and public speaker on European affairs.

Lorenzo Mattotti

Lorenzo Mattotti was born in Brescia in 1954. While still a student of architecture at the University of Venice he started drawing comics for magazines and publishers. After graduating from university he dedicated himself totally to this genre. Together with other Italian comics designers he founded the »Valvoline« in 1983.

Luca “Lagash” Saporiti

Luca »Lagash« Saporiti was born in 1964 in Padua, Italy and studied politics at the University of Milan.After several years in London, which he used to gather musical and performing experience, Saporiti played bass guitar on several recordings and performances by Italian bands. From 1995 to 2008, he was a

Luca Giordano

Luca Giordano was born in 1985 in Moncalieri near Turin and studied script-writing at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia at Rome’s International Film Academy. He is the author of short films that are shown at Italian and international festivals. He wrote the film script for »Il Terzo Tempo« (2013; tr.

Laura Fidaleo

Laura Fidaleo born in Formia in 1980, studied humanities and in a postgraduate course Dramaturgy. Her collection of poetry »Tu non sai volare e io ti guardo« (tr.: You can’t fly, and I watch you) was published in 2006, followed in 2012 by the anthology of short stories »Dammi un

László Krasznahorkai

László Krasznahorkai was born in 1954 in Gyula, Hungary. He studied law in Szeged and Hungarian language and literature in Budapest. In 1985 his début novel »Sátántangó« (Eng. »Satantango«, 2012) appeared, which was later adapted by Krasznahorkai for Béla Tarr’s film of the same name (1994). The collaboration between the

Ilaria Gaspari

born in Milan, Italy, studied philosophy at the elite university Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. She currently lives in Paris and is working on her doctoral thesis. She published her first novel »Etica dell’acquario« (tr. Ethics of the aquarium), in which the egocentric and unhappy heroine Gaia returns to Pisa

Igiaba Scego

Igiaba Scego was born in 1974 in Rome. Her parents left Somalia and came to Italy after Siad Barre’s military junta took over. In 1980s Rome it was not uncommon for the family to experience discrimination. Scego’s father had been a well known politician in Somalia and had held posts