Novecento - Omaggio a Elsa Morante

Novecento is the new format created by the Caffè Letterario di Umbria Green Festival to showcase the great authors who have lived through the past century.

«And now, O you who have listened to these songs, forgive me if I sigh thinking back to how simple my life had been.»

From The World Saved by Kids

Let's start with Elsa Morante and for this unique tribute we have involved four great authors: Andrea Cortellessa, Emanuele Dattilo, Melania G. Mazzucco, Siriana Sgavicchia.

We will tell the story of Elsa through photographs, manuscripts, letters, and unpublished documents: forty years after her death, we will take an imaginative journey into the life and work of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.