(27 June 2017) The European Literature Festival in Belgrade is an open multimedia event where literature is presented through a wide variety of forms: books, public readings, discussions with authors, exhibitions, video presentations, contemporary movie retrospectives and documentaries inspired by literature. As part of the 6th edition of the festival, titled "Il meglio di tutto. Il meglio per tutti" (The Best of Everything. The Best for Everyone), the Arhipelag publishing house, in collaboration with the Italian Institute of Culture of Belgrade, has organised a talk with the Italian writer Claudio Magris, on Wednesday 28 June at 20:00 at the Dom Omladine Cultural Center. Author of masterpieces such as "Danubio" (Danube), "Microcosmi" (Microcosms) and "Un Altro Mare" (Another Sea), Magris will be the main protagonist of the Festival, during which he will present his novel "Non luogo a procedere" (No place to proceed), soon to be published by the Ahipelag. (Red) 

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Writer and scholar of German, Claudio Magris previously taught German at the University of Turin, then at Trieste. Since a young age, he has focused on the criticism of the Absburgic Myth in Modern Austrian Literature (1963 thesis). Magris was among the first to re-evaluate the literary Jewish current within European literature in "Lontano da dove, Joseph Roth e la tradizione ebraico-orientale" (From Where. Joseph Roth and the Eastern Jewish Tradition) (1971). Danubio (1986), perhaps his masterpiece, confirms him as one of the greatest Italian contemporary writers. He won Bagutta Prize in 1986 and then the Strega Prize in 1997 for his novel "Microcosmi" and the Prince of Asturias Prize in 2004 in the Literature section. In 1999 he was awarded the Chiara Prize for Career and the Giuseppe Acerbi Literary Award Special for essay writing. Magri also currently writes from the Corriere della Sera.