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Naples event brings back Grand Tour

Naples event brings back Grand Tour

Bestsellers Harris and Deaver discover the city

Naples, 26 October 2015, 19:09

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The third 'Words in Journey' international literary event, which starts Friday, brings bestselling authors Joanne Harris, Jeffery Deaver and Marcos Giralt Torrente to Naples so they can describe the city from their contemporary perspectives.
    This year's Harris will be able to discover the sweetness of Neapolitan 'Chocolat', crime writer Deaver will wander the city searching for 'noir' inspirations, and Torrente will uncover the Spanish side of the city.
    The project's creators are American Barbara Burdick and Neapolitan writer and director Angelo Cannavacciuolo, and this year the tour arrives in Naples after having already gone to the inspirational destinations of Sorrento, Pompeii and Ravello, with writers of the caliber of Gore Vidal, Jay Parini, Ethan Canin, Jim Nisbet, Margaret Atwood, Annie Proulx, Philippe Claudel, and Arturo Perez-Reverte.
    Two locations of enormous appeal are hosting the event: Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano, from the Galleries of Italy circuit, where the masterpiece 'The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula' - known as the last Caravaggio - is housed, and the Antro di Virgilio (Virgil's Cavern) in the Castel dell'Ovo castle by the sea.
    The event's first appointment is on Friday, when Harris will take the stage at 6:30 p.m. at Palazzo Zevallos.
    Resident of Yorkshire and born of an English father and French mother, Harris said it's the first time she's visiting Naples "without rushing, and about which I can't but help write", and plans to visit the celebrated pastry shops of the city.
    Harris gained cult author status after the publication of Chocolat in 1998 and the subsequent 2001 film starring Johnny Depp and Juliette Binoche, and at the event she will present her new novel, The Gospel of Loki (Il Canto del Ribelle in Italian, published by Garzanti Editore).
    On October 25 at Palazzo Zevallos, Jeffery Deaver will appear at 11:30 a.m., an author whose novels that have sold 20 million copies in 150 countries and been translated into 25 languages.
    His book "The Bone Collector" was made into a movie in 1999 starring Denzel Washington.
    The third and final appointment takes place November 13 at Castel dell'Ovo, when Marcos Giralt Torrente, son of painter Juan Giralt, nephew of writer Gonzalo Torrente, and winner of the European Strega Prize, will present his latest novel "The End of Love" ("La Fine dell'Amore in Italian", published by Elliot Editore).
    Director and curator Angelo Cannavacciuolo remembers how he first got the idea for Words in Journey.
    "It was in San Francisco, in the sitting room at Ferlinghetti's City Lights Books, where Words in Journey was born, while we were talking with a young Californian writer," Cannavacciuolo said.
    "He had a small novel called "The Thousand Words That Rule the World", a little book on the evocative power of the written word. That's when Barbara Burdick got the idea to create an annual international literary event in Naples. A few months later, we started to take the words on journey, starting in faraway places and coming back to us, hidden between the pages of books of famous foreign writers, inviting them to immerse themselves in the role of new travellers".
    The event is supported by the Naples Provincial Tourism Board.
   

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