{"id":181531,"date":"2026-03-30T13:55:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T11:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/\/2026\/03\/san-francisco-andrea-bajani-inaugura-il-festival-la-piazza\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T15:49:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:49:16","slug":"san-francisco-andrea-bajani-inaugura-il-festival-la-piazza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/diplomazia-culturale\/2026\/03\/san-francisco-andrea-bajani-inaugura-il-festival-la-piazza\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco, Andrea Bajani opened &#8220;La Piazza&#8221; Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An online event featuring writer Andrea Bajani, winner of the 2025 Strega Prize with &#8220;<em>L&#8217;anniversario<\/em>&#8221; (published by Feltrinelli), officially opened &#8220;<em>La Piazza<\/em> \u2013 Italian Literary Festival San Francisco,&#8221; organized by the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco in collaboration with the cultural association &#8220;<em>Librai in Corso<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is the first Italian Literary Festival in San Francisco, taking place from April 10 to 13, 2026. Seven authors of contemporary Italian fiction will offer Bay Area audiences a unique perspective on our literary production, continuing the legacy of the most esteemed writers in our centuries-old tradition. The Festival will open at the Italian Cultural Institute and then continue at the University of California \u2013 Davis and the &#8220;Pino&#8221; bookshop.<\/p>\n<p>Guests include Carlo Lucarelli, Giulia Caminito, Federico Rampini, Ann Goldstein, Emanuela Anechoum, and Matteo B. Bianchi. In parallel with the main program, the section &#8220;<em>La Piazza<\/em> Kids&#8221;, dedicated to younger readers, will host writers Silvia D&#8217;Achille and Benedetta Faedi for meetings at various schools, namely &#8220;<em>La Scuola<\/em> International School,&#8221; &#8220;Saints Peter and Paul School,&#8221; and &#8220;Lowell High School&#8221; in San Francisco, as well as &#8220;St. Catherine of Siena School&#8221; in Burlingame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An online event featuring writer Andrea Bajani, winner of the 2025 Strega Prize with &#8220;L&#8217;anniversario&#8221; (published by Feltrinelli), officially opened &#8220;La Piazza \u2013 Italian Literary Festival San Francisco,&#8221; organized by the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco in collaboration with the cultural association &#8220;Librai in Corso.&#8221; This is the first Italian Literary Festival in San [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":181471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418],"tags":[397,32],"class_list":["post-181531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diplomazia-culturale","tag-america-settentrionale","tag-diplomazia-culturale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181534,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181531\/revisions\/181534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}