{"id":54313,"date":"2016-01-18T12:48:53","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T11:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2016\/01\/berlino-letteratura-igiaba-scego-2\/"},"modified":"2016-01-18T12:48:53","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T11:48:53","slug":"berlino-letteratura-igiaba-scego-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/approfondimenti\/2016\/01\/berlino-letteratura-igiaba-scego-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlin &#8211; Literature, Igiaba Scego guest of the Italian Cultural Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Racism, integration, roots and identity. These, amongst others, will be discussed at the Italian Cultural Institute in Berlin on Tuesday January 19 (at 7:00pm) on the occasion of the presentation of the book \u201cLa mia casa \u00e8 dove sono\u201d (Home is where I am). The Italian Cultural Institute will be hosting writer Igiaba Scego who was born in Rome in 1974 from Somali parents (her father, Foreign Minister, chose exile in Italy following the military coup d\u2019\u00e9tat by Siad Barre). The journalist and writer defines herself as a \u201cblack Roman\u201d, \u201cSomali of origin and Italian by vocation\u201d, \u201cAfro-Italian\u201d, with a \u201ccomposite identity\u201d and \u201csecond generation writer\u201d. \u201cLa mia casa \u00e8 dove sono\u201d &#8211; 2011 winner of the Mondello prize &#8211; is her fourth novel. Today, Igiaba Scego lives in Rome, where she splits her time between writing and working. She collaborates with various magazines and newspapers covering African cultures and migrations. Her works, which\u00a0 mainly focus on the dialogue between cultures, transculturalism and migrations,\u00a0 are characterised by the delicate balance of her two cultural roots, Italian and Somali, which skilfully reflect the syncretic dimension in which the author grew up. Elisabetta Gaddoni will be moderating the meeting (in Italian with simultaneous interpretation) promoted by the Italian Cultural Institute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Racism, integration, roots and identity. These, amongst others, will be discussed at the Italian Cultural Institute in Berlin on Tuesday January 19 (at 7:00pm) on the occasion of the presentation of the book \u201cLa mia casa \u00e8 dove sono\u201d (Home is where I am). The Italian Cultural Institute will be hosting writer Igiaba Scego who [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[32,9],"class_list":["post-54313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-diplomazia-culturale","tag-europa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54313","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}