2010 ART BOOKS FOR SALE
The Institute invites you to visit its new art books sale corner, open to the public Monday through Friday from 10am to 4pm.
On sale at special price , noteworthy limited edition art books
Antonia Arslan with "La Strada di Smirne" at New Literature From Europe Festival
November 15-18, New York City
New Literature From Europe 7th edition "Haunting The Present"
We are proud to announce that the
Italian writer of Armenian origins Antonia Arslan will be at New Literature
From Europe Festival with her novel “La Strada di Smirne” (The Road to Smirne).
“La strada di Smirne” is a sequel to the well known Best Selller “Skylark’s
Farm”. The two novels trace one Armenian family's experience during the
Armenian genocide of 1915.
In “Haunting the present”, the
Festival 7th edition, the overriding theme will be the continue sway of history
in contemporary life, as authors explore the fascinating blend of modernity and
history that so exemplifies europe, or delve into the deep, dark recesses of
their countries’ past. Readers will be carried from the menacingly Gothic Nové Město Neighborhood
of Prague to the mythical Polish village of Premeval to a small, bucolic French
village shortly after World War II.
The events will be moderated by
the well known American writer Andrè
Aciman, who is the chair of comparative literature and director of the
writers’Institute at the CUNY Graduate Center.
The festival will be once again
be an opportunity for the American public to discover contemporary European
writers.
Bitter spring: a life of Ignazio Silone by Stanislao G. Pugliese has won the International Prize for Italian Studies.
Stanislao G. Pugliese’s book, Bitter spring: a life of Ignazio Silone, nominated by the Italian Cultural Institute of New York, has been awarded the prestigious International Prize for Italian Studies. The Prize is issued by the Cultural Association Ennio Flaiano in collaboration with the Italian Ministery of Foreign Affairs and the Italian Cultural Institutes worldwide. Pugliese, professor of Modern European History at Hofstra University in New York, has collected the Prize during a ceremony held on July 4 at the Theater „G. d’Annunzio” in Pescara, Italy.
Pugliese's book, which had already been assigned the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History, is the first comprehensive treatment in English of the life and works of Ignazio Silone, perhaps the most famous Italian antifascist writer of the 20th century.
Bitter Spring recounts the entangled personal and intellectual story of Silone, providing an engaging example of brilliant historical reconstruction.
Stanislao G. Pugliese Bitter Spring: a life of Ignazio Silone,
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2009, 426 pages.