A documentary series, broadcasted on Rai until 2016 and SKY after 2016, follows the editions of Le Conversazioni festival from 2006 to 2020.
EDITIONS AND GUESTS:
2006 – Identity
With: Nathan Englander, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Franzen, Zadie Smith e David Foster Wallace;
2007 – Word and Image
With: Martin Amis, Ethan Coen, Colum McCann, Michael Cunningham, Ian McEwan, Claire Messud, Chuck Palahniuk e Annie Proulx;
2008 – Memory
With: Paul Auster, Junot Dìaz, A.M. Homes, Siri Hustvedt, Jonathan Lethem, Patrick McGrath, Daniel Mendelsohn e Alessandro Piperno;
2009 – Capital Sins
With: Jay McInerney, Nathan Englander, Roberto Saviano, Salman Rushdie, Patti Smith, David Sedaris e George Saunders;
2010 – Human Rights
With: E. L. Doctorow, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Colson Whitehead, Joshua Ferris, Paolo Giordano, David Byrne, Paolo Sorrentino e Adam Haslett;
2011 – Eros
With: Cathleen Schine, Mario Desiati, Jonathan Safran Foer, Nicole Krauss, Phillip Lopate, Sandro Veronesi, David Leavitt e Donna Tartt;
2012 – Politically Correct
With: Philip Gourevitch, Pierluigi Battista, Lila Azam Zanganeh, Paolo Mieli, Larissa MacFarquhar, Diego De Silva, Stefan Merril Block, Gaetano Cappelli, Wole Soyinka, Federico Rampini, Jamaica Kincaid e Leonardo Colombati;
2013 – Winner and Losers
With: Ayelet Waldman, Michael Chabon, Stephen Sondheim, Alessandro Baricco, Jhumpa Lahiri, Elizabeth Strout, Adam Johnson, Claudio Magris e Michael Ondaatje;
2014 – Corruption and Purity
With: Diego De Silva, Gaetano Cappelli, Hanif Kureishi, Daniel Libeskind, Anna Funder, Don DeLillo e Rachel Kushner;
2015 – Revolution
With: Miriam Toews, Edna O’Brien, Judith Thurman, Teju Cole, Ann Patchett, Jonathan Galassi, Anthony Appiah e Louise Erdrich;
2016 – Diversity
With: Valeria Luiselli, Donato Carrisi, Gary Shteyngart, Erica Jong, Hanan al-Shaykh, Garth Risk Hallberg e Marlon James;
2017 – Lies
With: Elif Batuman, Adam Gopnik, Gian Arturo Ferrari, Mary Karr, Ben Lerner, Karan Mahajan;
2018 – Happines
With: Vendela Vida, Dave Eggers, Helen Oyeyemi, Ian Buruma, David Mamet e Benjamin Taylor;
2019 – Prejudice
With: Annalena Benini, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Piera Degli Esposti, Amitav Ghosh, Andrew Sean Greer, Howard Jacobson, Leslie Jamison, Salman Rushdie, Marisa Silver, Susanna Tamaro e Francesco Vezzoli;