Scritture Giovani is a project conceptualized by Festivaletteratura in 2002 to promote young European writers.
It started with the support of the European Union’s Cultural Programme and has continued with increasing success. Scritture Giovani involves several of Europe’s major literary festivals – Festivaletteratura, Hay Festival (United Kingdom) and international literature festival berlin (Germany).
The authors in the past years were chosen under the criteria of age (under 32), the first publication of a short story written specifically for the project, the first translation of their work (into the languages of the three festivals: Italian, English and German) and the participation of the authors at events at the three festivals.
The short stories, information about the Scritture Giovani authors and other news will be published on the website: www.scritturegiovani.it.
40 short stories from the last 13 years by authors from around the world.
The Scritture Giovani publications from the past years are listed up here.
2016: Much Ado About Nothing
With short stories by:
Rebecca F. John
Ilaria Gaspari
Mercedes Lauenstein
Nina Polak
2015: Home
With short stories by:
Valerie Fritsch
Llŷr Gwyn Lewis
Marco Parlato
Elske Rahill
2014: Sarajevo
With short stories by:
Luca Giordano
Florian Kessler
Jemma L. King
2013: Jerusalem
With short stories by:
Laura Fidaleo
Meirion Jordan
Felix Stephan
Maarten Inghels
2012: why?
With short stories by:
Antonia Baum
Eurig Salisbury
Francesca Scotti
Andrea Lundgren
2011: names
With short stories by:
Susanne Heinrich
Paolo Piccirillo
Anna Lewis
Kallia Papadaki
2010: sea
With short stories by:
Dora Albanese
Catrin Dafydd
Clemens Setz
Stefania Mihalache
2009: 4 am
With short stories by:
Paul Brodowsky
Gabriele Dadati
Owen Martell
Céline Robinet
2008: sunshine
With short stories by:
Cynan Jones
Giovanni Montanaro
Thomas von Steinaecker
Seray Şahiner
2007: disquiet
With short stories by:
Eirik Ingebrigtsen
Caryl Lewis
Thorsten Palzhoff
Chiara Valerio
David Machado
2006: Casablanca
With short stories by:
Cristiano Cavina
Aneirin Karadog
Kirsten Fuchs
Gaute Heivol
Ana Prieto Nadal
2005: elsewhere
With short stories by:
Marco Archetti
Fflur Dafydd
Gunnhild Oyehaug
Daniel Odija
Antje Ravic Strubel
2004: monsters
With short stories by:
Ingeborg Arvola
Valeria Parrella
Owen Sheers
Gernot Wolfram
2003: borders
With short stories by:
Bjarte Breiteig
Richard John Evans
Angharad Price
Flavio Soriga
Tilman Rammstedt
2002: things change
With short stories by:
Rajeev Balasubramanyam
Davide Longo
Marco Mancassola
Ingo Niermann
Silke Scheuermann
Rachel Trezise