(April 17, 2017) On the occasion of the publication in the United States of Claudio Magri's latest novel, Blameless, the world-famous Italian writer will be in conversation with Jamaica Kincaid and Norman Manea: the appointment is on Wednesday April 19 at the Italian Institute of Culture in New York.  Claudio Magris’s searing new novel (Blameless, Yale University Press, April 2017) ruthlessly confronts the human obsession with war and its savagery in every age and every country. A tale of one man’s obsessive project to collect the instruments of death, evil, and humanity’s darkest atrocities in order to oppose them. Claudio Magris, professor emeritus of modern German literature, University of Trieste, is a recipient of the Erasmus Prize among scores of other literary awards. His best-selling novel Danube has been translated into more than twenty languages. He lives in Trieste. Magris graduated from the University of Turin, where he studied German studies, and has been a professor of modern German literature at the University of Trieste since 1978. He is an essayist and columnist for the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera and for other European journals and newspapers.

ABOUT / KINCAID AND MANEA

Jamaica Kincaid is significant voice in contemporary literature, and is widely praised for her works of short fiction, novels, and essays in which she explores the tenuous relationship between mother and daughter as well as themes of anti-colonialism. A native of the island of Antigua, Kincaid is considered one of the most important women Caribbean writers. Norman Manea is a Romanian writer, living in New York City. His writing comprises novels, essays, short prose and his topic is, mainly, the individual destiny in extreme situations (holocaust, communist dictatorship, exile).