From Friday 9^th June to Sunday 11^th June 2023 the NORD IN GIALLO festival returns, with an even richer second edition! Yellow' literature is the literary genre that succeeds in exploring and investigating the transformations, contradictions and mysteries of our time. The Festival, in particular, deals with books and authors, encouraging direct encounters between the latter and readers, both adults and children, to whom specially created meeting spaces are dedicated. It also deals with cinema and theatre: through direct encounters with directors, authors and critics and through the proposals of shows by contemporary authors, recent films and classics of the genre. 

All events are at the Giardini Estensi in Via Sacco, 5, Varese.

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PROGRAM

Friday 9^th June

Giallo Junior in cooperation with the "Potere ai bambini" bookshop

at 4:00 p.m. 

Meeting with Giuditta Campello, author of many books and short story collections, the latest being Mistero al cimitero (Pelledoca 2022) and Il piano geniale di Oliver lo scheletro (Emma Edizioni, 2023). She also organises reading and writing activities and workshops for children and adolescents in schools, libraries and bookshops.

at 5:00 p.m.

Meeting with Christian Hill, winner of a competition organised by the literary magazine 'Inchiostro' and winner of the Children's Literature Prize organised by the municipality of Cento in 2019. His latest novel for children is Assassinio nella band. 

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Meeting the authors

at 6:00 p.m.

Enzo R. Laforgia presents the meeting with Loriano Macchiavelli. Le piste dell'attentato (Campironi, 1974) is his successful debut, which turned the character of Sergeant Antonio Sarti into an icon of the Italian detective story. In the following years Macchiavelli published numerous novels, also collaborating with Francesco Guccini. His latest works are Delitti senza castigo (Einaudi, 2019), La stagione del pipistrello (Mondadori, 2022), Funerale dopo Ustica (SEM, 2022) and I fantasmi si vestono nudi (Solferino libri, 2023).

at 7:00 p.m.

Manuela Lozza presents the meeting with Bruno Morchio, psicologo e psicoterapeuta, è anche autori di numerosi romanzi appartenenti al genere "noir mediterraneo" accomunati da due protagonisti: l’investigatore privato Bacci Pagano (il «detective dei carruggi») e Genova, la sua città d’origine. Il suo ultimo lavoro di quest’anno, pubblicato nella collana Nero Rizzoli è La fine è ignota.

Meeting Valerio Varesi, is an Italian detective novelist, from his pen come stories of Commissioner Soneri, a long-lived detective of noir fiction. His most recent works are Gli invisibili (Mondadori, 2019), L'ora buca (Frassinelli, 2020) and Reo confesso (Mondadori, 2021). The re-edition of L'Affittacamere will soon be published in the Oscar Mondadori series.

Meeting with Patrizia Zappa Mulas, actress and writer, her debut novel was in 1998 L'orgogliosa (La Tartaruga), then published with SEM Il talento della vittima (2019) and L'Ombra di Nora. La seconda indagine del Maggiore Agostino. (2021)

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Il giallo al cinema - Finché c'è prosecco c'è speranza

at 9:00 p.m.

Introduced by Diego Pisati, Finché c'è prosecco c'è speranza by Antonio Padovan, 2017, 101'. Film based on the novel of the same name by Fulvio Ervas (2010). Present at the screening will be Fulvio Ervas and Antonio Padovan.

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Saturday 10^th June

Giallo Junior in cooperation with the "Potere ai bambini" bookshop

at 4:00 p.m.

Linda Terzioli presents the meeting with Fausto Vitaliano. He is an Italian cartoonist, journalist and writer and scriptwriter of comics and cartoons for Disney and Rainbow. He has also published comic stories for Sergio Bonelli, Edizioni BD and BD Music. In 2020 he made his debut as a mystery writer with La mezzaluna di sabbia (Bompiani), the first volume in the series of Gori Misticò's latest investigations. Published in 2023 by Piemme in the Giallo & Nero series, Omicidio al castello is his first detective story for children.

at 5:00 p.m.

Meeting with the winner of the "Giallo Junior" section of the international literary competition "Ceresio in Giallo", edition 2022-2023.

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Meeting the authors

at 6:00 p.m.

Michele Mancino presents the meeting with Ben Pastor, the Italian writer who invented the characters of Martin Bora, a soldier and investigator from World War II, and Elio Sparziano, a pseudo-historical character and figure somewhere between reality and literature. She has recently published La grande caccia (Mondadori, 2020) and La sinagoga degli zingari (Sellerio, 2021). Mondadori has recently published the novel La morte delle sirene. An investigation by Elio Sparziano.

at 7:00 p.m.

Andrea Della Bella introduces the meeting with Valeria Corciolani, who made her debut in 2010 with Lacrime di coccodrillo (Mondadori, 2010) and in 2022 was awarded 'detective novelist of the year' at the 'GiallOrmea' literary review for Il morso del ramarro, from which the film of the same name was made. Rizzoli published the novel Di rosso e di luce in 2022.

Meeting with Massimo Picozzi, medical surgeon, psychotherapist specialising in psychiatry and clinical criminology; he boasts numerous collaborations with the Carabinieri and State Police. As a writer, he is the author with Carlo Lucarelli of Serial Killer (2019) and Nero come l'anima (2022), his latest work is Detective. Storie di grandi sbirri e geniali investigatori published in 2023 with Solferino. 

Meeting with Alessandro Robecchi, journalist, television author and writer. His narrative debut is Questa non è una canzone d'amore (Sellerio, 2014), which opens the series of adventures of Carlo Monterossi. His latest novels, published by Sellerio, are Flora (2021), Una piccola questione di cuore (2022) and Cinque blues per la banda Monterossi (2023).

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Il Giallo a Teatro - Bella con l'anima

at 9:00 p.m.

Introducing the evening was Diego Pisati, Bella con l'anima, a performance based on the story of the same name by Antonio Zamberletti with Elisa Baio, music by Daniele Cortese.

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Sunday 11^th June

Meeting the authors

at 6:00 p.m. 

Diego Pisati presents the meeting with Luca Crovi, from Milan and editor at Sergio Bonelli Editore where he is in charge of the Commissario Ricciardi and Deadwood Dick series. He is the author of the monograph Tutti i colori del giallo (Marsilio, 2002) that inspired the radio programme of the same name on Radio2. His publications include the essay Storia del giallo italiano (Marsilio, 2020), L'ultima canzone del Naviglio (Rizzoli, 2020), Il gigante e la Madonnina (Rizzoli, 2022) and Il mistero della torre del parco e altre storie (SEM, 2022).

Meeting with Marina Visentin, writer of cinema, philosophy and psychology. Her first noir novel was Biancaneve (Todaro Editore, 2010), La donna nella pioggia (Piemme, 2017) is her first psychological thriller. In 2021 he published Cuore di rabbia (SEM) and recently published the thriller Gli occhi della notte, a new investigation by vice-policeman Giulia Ferro. 

Meeting with Rosa Mogliasso, writer and finalist in many literary prizes including the Bancarella and the Scerbanenco Prize. Among her works: La felicità è un muscolo volontario (Salani, 2012), Chi bacia e chi viene baciato (Salani, 2014) and Bella era bella, morta era morta (NNEDITORE, 2015). In 2021, he published L'irresistibile simmetria della vendetta (Salani) and in March 2023, published by SEM, his latest novel set in Turin Uccidere, qualche volta was released.

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Il giallo al cinema - Milano Calibro 9 

at 9:00 p.m. 

Introduced by Diego Pisati, Milano Calibro 9 by Fernando Di Leo, 1972, 88'. The title of the film is that of an anthology of short stories by Giorgio Scerbanenco.

 

 

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