… who is always worth listening to….

IN CONVERSAZIONE
Talks with Anglophone authors who write about Italy and Italian Culture
Monday 6 December 2010 7pm
MICHELLE LOVRIC in conversazione with MAXIM JAKUBOWSKI

From an early age, author Michelle Lovric seemed fated to live close to water. She was born in Sydney, Australia but now divides her time between London where she lives with her architect husband overlooking the Thames and Venice where they reside in an apartment in an old Palazzo. She is the author of four novels for adults and two for children, all set in Venice. The first Carnevale, was about the last woman who loved Casanova. The Floating Book told the story of Venice’s first printer and her third novel, The Remedy, was long-listed for the Orange Prize. Her first novel for young adults, The Undrowned Child tells what happens when science meets baddened magic in Venice. Its sequel, The Mourning Emporium, was recently published. Her fourth adult novel, The Book of Human Skin, set in Venice and Peru, was published earlier this year.

She also is the editor of Venice, Tales of the City, a literary guide to the pleasures and history of La Serenissima through the ages, She delivered the 2010 Venice in Peril summer lecture, about Baiamonte Tiepolo, the villain of her children’s books, and his hidden column of infamy. She reviews for various publications and runs writing workshops. She is currently Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art.

Maxim Jakubowski is a British writer who worked for many years in book publishing, is a regular broadcaster on radio and TV, was crime reviewer for the Guardian for 10 years and was the owner of the Murder One bookshop. He has lived several years in Italy, and has edited books on Rome and
Venice. He runs Crime Scene, London’s Crime Film Festival, and is an official advisor to Noir in Fest, the annual Italian-based International Mystery Film Festival, set in Courmayeur in Val d’Aosta. His latest novel I was waiting for you has appeared in November 2010 and is partly set in Italy and features major Italian protagonists

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