Rizoma

Certainly! Here's the translation of the Italian text to English:

On Saturday, October 11, the 2025 edition of the Rizoma literary meeting series ends on a high note with a guest of honor: Adrián Bravi, finalist of the 2024 Strega Prize with his touching historical and biographical novel Adelaida.

The Rizoma literary series is curated by writer, anthropologist, and literary translator Lucia Cupertino (originally from Polignano and abroad for many years) and is born from the synergy with the Monopoli Literary Café, which always strives to spread culture in the region, and from the indispensable support of the Department of Culture of Monopoli, the “Prospero Rendella” Civic Library, where the events take place, and the Affittacamere Casa Mina of Polignano a Mare, which hosts the guests.

In anticipation of the new edition, which is very likely to start as early as January 2026, the event with the novelist Bravi is the fourth and final appointment of the series that featured poets, translators, writers, and prominent intellectuals from Puglia and the rest of Italy, including international guests.

Adrián Bravi with his latest novel Adelaida, dedicated to the story of Adelaida Gigli, a courageous woman and artist torn between Recanati and Argentina, with the lasting pain of two disappeared children, won the 2024 Comisso Prize (biography section) and was a finalist for the 2024 Strega Prize. An Argentine writer of Italian origins, he currently resides in Recanati and has many novels to his name in which he adopts Italian as a literary language, always highlighting his background, sharp irony, and the disruptive perspective of his continent of origin, in a constant play of back and forth between Italy and his Argentina.

The meeting on Saturday, October 11, titled “Narrating between Latin America and Italy,” will begin at 6:30 PM in the Prospero room of the Rendella library, moderated by the artistic director Lucia Cupertino, with readings of excerpts from the author's works by Renza De Cesare. There will be a book stall curated by Minopolis bookstore.

Undoubtedly, it's an important occasion to get to know Adrián Bravi, the intertwining of his life and literary works, and also to have a preview of his new book, The Night Swimmer, just released and available from September 26, 2025, which promises to soon become a new literary success.
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