Tuesday 3 June, 6.30pm, Eugenio Montale Library
Ornella Tarantola presents: Conversations with Friends. With Carolina Bandinelli and Giorgia Tolfo
IN ITALIAN
Carolina Bandinelli and Giorgia Tolfo talk about London and love. Exploring the generational dimension of expat and nostalgia, contaminations and comfort, bodies and self-awareness, they wonder how writing – and literature – can be a means to a place of stability.
Tow ways of writing side by side. With Mrs Dalloway in both authors’ pages.
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Carolina Bandinelli is Associate Professor in Media and Creative Industries at Warwick University. She has been on the Italian and international cultural scene for over ten years thanks to her contributions on creative work, desire and digital media. He research work has featured on international media including Bbc, New York Times, El País. In 2024 she published Le postromantiche: sui nuovi modi di amare (Laterza), an essay on love and sex culture. Her novel La più brava came out with Nutrimenti in 2024
Giorgia Tolfo holds a PhD in Letterature postcoloniali e comparate from the Università di Bologna and a Master in Digital Humanities from UCL. She is a researcher of collections at the National Archives since 2023. She has written articles for Italian and international publications. Giorgia has co-founded FILL (Festival of Italian Literature in London), writes and produces podcasts. Wild Swimming is her first novel, published by Bompiani in 2025.