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Exclusive! "Ulysses was also a woman" says Nadia Terranova, author of Farewell, Ghosts

ByFrancesca Lombardo. As last month I was nearing the ending of my memoir-novel writing I had the chance to attend a conference about female autobiographic writing at Insieme,a new literary Festival held at the Auditorium of Rome in October 2020, where two of the most interesting female writers of the Italian contemporary literary landscape, Nadia TerranovaandRossana…
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Movies

Steve McQueen calls out for more diversity during an interview at the Rome Film Fest 2020 where he picked up a Life Award

by Francesca Lombardo –Oscar winning director of 12 Years of Slaves, Steve McQueen has been honoured with a Life Award at the 15th Edition of the Rome Film Fest. The British Film-maker has presented his film trilogy titled Small Axes (Lovers Rock, Mangrove and Red, White and Blue) which is set to premiere on 15 November, 2020 on BBC One in the UK and on 20 November, 2020 on Amazon…
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Movies

My Life? My career? Je ne regrette rien ... confesses French film icon Funny Ardant

A retrospective on the life and the career of Funny Ardant,Close Encounter,at Rome Cinema Festa, 14th Edition, Rome October 2019. Muse of Francois Truffaut and a true icon of the French and international cinema, Fanny Ardant comes back to the big screen with grace and charisma in a genial, intense and exhilarating movie that is all about nostalgia and recapturing the past to make sense…
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Kids Club

What kids love about London - Introducing child reporter Abigail

I’m Abigail, I’m 10 years old and I live in Brockley, South East London. My hobbies are singing, dancing, writing and playing the piano. I love living in Brockley because we have a fantastic park called Hillyfields and it has a fab view over London. Image: http://www.hilly.org.uk/images/ We’ve got lots of different parks near to where we live.  There’s Greenwich…
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