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Olivia Colman, Anna Bonaiuto and Olga Zuiderhoek read new lecture by Elena Ferrante at Dutch literature festival
Elena Ferrante became a global literary sensation with her four Neapolitan novels, a bestselling series that sold more than 15 million copies worldwide. The first two volumes, and , have also been adapted for television. Elena Ferrante is this year's recipient of the Belle van Zuylen Ring, an international honour presented by the ILFU in collaboration with the City of Utrecht , a UNESCO City of Literature, in recognition of the work's explicit social engagement. Ferrante's lecture is a blazing plea for women's freedom and criticizes today's society that is still dominated by men: "Since Belle's time, we have modified every scenario, and yet we've remained bound and constricted within a language that expresses us only in part, we've remained bound and constricted within men's rules, within their daily abuses of power."
ILFU is an annual festival and a daily online platform for literature. During our festival, we bring the world's best authors to Utrecht and publish commissioned works on our platform. ILFU aims to show that literature matters. In a time when many lament the decline of reading, the drastic reduction in numbers of libraries and the closure of one bookseller after another, ILFU offers a ray of hope. So many wonderful works are being written, and each year more people visit our festival and platform. Literature is both full of life and vital for a healthy society. The ILFU's guest authors in the past have included: Paul Auster , Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nick Cave , Michael Palin , Jeanette Winterson , Louis Theroux , Margaret Atwood , Salman Rushdie, Rachel Cusk, John Irving , Roxane Gay , Julian Barnes and Elizabeth Strout . Visit ilfu.com for more information.
An online stream of Elena Ferrante lecture (± 30 minutes) by Olivia Colman , Anna Bonaiuto and Olga Zuiderhoek . Following the Award Ceremony the videos and podcasts of the three performances will be available at elenaferrantelecture.com for 10 days between 24 September and 3 October. Tickets: €5.
Elena Ferrante Belle van Zuylen lecture 2021 Trailer: https://vimeo.com/612771984.
Photos (please mention: Photography by Rob Schreuder ), videos and press release through this link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11nxyzEDxuz7qUE9b2eFTTtcHgFDG84Wc?usp=sharing.
Video - https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/1634050/International_Literature_Festival_Utrecht.mp4