Time of appointments to the top management of large companies and cultural institutions. Toton continues for some strategic posts yet to be assigned, but the referral field Turin International Book Fair just been busy Annalena Benini, who will lead the event for the triennium 2024-2006.. There have been discussions for months as to who will be Nicola Lajoya’s successor, and if many expected the name to come up only after the 35th edition, scheduled at Lingotto Fiere from May 18 to 22, ends, in the end the choice fell . about the journalist and the writer.
“I got a call from a number I don’t know,” Benini said at a presentation on the premises of the Palazzo Madama in Turin, according to Ansa. – They were the president of the Piedmont region Alberto Chirio, the mayor of Turin. Stefano Lo Russo and President of the Turin City Book Association Silvio Viale. By the way, it was April 1st, I thought it was a joke.” But nothing more serious. “I thought about it for 24 hours, but it would be crazy to say no. I couldn’t believe it, I felt horrified, but I had the courage: it was a great opportunity. I was guaranteed that I would be free, this is the initial state.
Ferrarese by birth, Roman by adoption, Annalena Benini was born in 1975 and boasts extensive experience in the publishing world.. After graduating from law school at the age of 26, he enters Paper as an intern. Like everyone else, he starts with a brief description, captions, and a few lines of weather forecast. Months later, he is beginning to be appreciated, and little by little he begins to write about culture and personalities, in particular for the weekly insert “Il Figlio”. Years later, he became director of the cultural magazine Review, where he edited the Stolen Letters section of the book, published every Saturday. He is the author of several publications, including Letter or life. Ten Encounters Within Literature (Rizzoli in 2018), an anthology Women’s fairy tales (Einaudi in 2019) and novel Annalena (Publisher, will be released in the coming days). For Rai, he wrote and hosted various television programs such as Italian novel AND stumbling blocks. Caring cultural baggage and the training that will serve her to imagine and create Salon 2024.
Second woman to run the salon – the first was Giulia Cogoli for a short time in 2015 – newly appointed, she will join the event’s editorial committee to “oversee” the work of her predecessor Lajoi before taking over and working on the program for the new edition. “I am very pleased with this appointment,” Benini said at a press conference, “for me, the Turin Book Fair has always been a very important place where I went every year to think about every year as a reader and as a person who writes: this is the place of books , readers, writers, publishers and culture in motion. Over time, I have learned to understand that the Salon is all that, but it is also much more. I also feel very lucky to be able to continue to see the wonderful, important work that Nicola Lagioya and the whole team has done. I’m starting from here, and for me it’s really a great and unexpected honor. I am grateful to this city that has always accepted me and given me the opportunity to make beautiful things, and I am aware of the responsibility that I have just taken on: I will do my best.”
Source: Elle