Now in its 24th edition, LETTERATURE Festival Internazionale di Roma is a historic Roman event featuring the most important literary voices of recent years. The evenings of 8, 9, 11, 13, 15 and 16 July will take place in the evocative setting of the Stadio Palatino, inside the Parco archeologico del Colosseo. The final stage of the festival, on 19 July, is instead scheduled at the Idroscalo di Ostia in Piazza dei Piroscafi, in collaboration with the Puntasacra Film Fest.
The final evening of Saturday 19 July takes place at the Idroscalo in Ostia and is entrusted to Nicola La Gioia with La guerra come malattia della specie. La mutazione antropologica come condanna (The War as a Disease of the Species. Anthropological mutation as condemnation).
Born in Bari in 1973, Nicola La Gioia is a writer, editor and radio author. He edits the multimedia culture magazine Lucy, has directed the Turin International Book Fair (2017-2023) and collaborates with Rai Radio 3. With Minimum Fax he published Tre sistemi per sbarazzarsi di Tolstoj (2001), and with Einaudi Occidente per principianti (2004), Riportando tutto a casa (2009, Premio Viareggio-Rèpaci, Premio Vittorini, Premio Volponi), La ferocia (2014, Premio Strega, Premio Mondello) and La città dei vivi (2020, Premio Alessandro Leogrande, Premio Bottari Lattes, Premio Napoli). For Chora Media he is the author of the podcast La città dei vivi. His books have been translated in 20 countries.
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