Thursday, May 29, 2008

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Igiaba Scego meets the students of Cisterna

was held this morning, as part of the 2nd Day of Peoples of the tank, the encounter between the writer Igiaba Scego and students of the school than Darby.
An attentive audience for over an hour, from 10.30, heard a well-known journalist and writer Italo-Somali who spoke of the immigration phenomenon in Italy, especially among the young.


Scego deals with writing, journalism and research on dialogue between cultures and the size of the transcultural and migration. He collaborates with many magazines that deal with migration and African cultures and literatures including Latinoamercica, Paper, and the Ghibli Migrate. Collaborate with the Republic and the manifest care and the topical heading colors of Eve, for the magazine Nigrizia.

His works are characterized by a delicate balance between two cultural realities of its membership, the Italian and Somali, the home and that in daily living.
In 2003 he won the prize for migrant writers Eks & Tra his story with Sausage and released her debut novel, 'The nomad who loved Alfred Hitchcock'. In 2006 he participated in the Festival of Literature in Mantua.


In 2007 he edited the collection, together with Ingy Mubiayi, 'When you are born is a roulette wheel. Young children of immigrants are told '. The book, illustrated to the students of Cisterna, collects the story of seven young men and women of African descent, born in Rome by foreign parents or arrived in Italy from children: the school, relationships with family and peers, religion, racism, dreams.

click here to see the photo album of the meeting with students Scego

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