The Italian novelist and dramatist Alessandro Baricco is one of the most widely read of today’s Italian writers. However, writing is only one of his many talents: his works for theatre are also highly regarded and he is a musician, philosophy graduate, a music critic and a journalist. With the publication of his novel Silk (1996), Baricco became a worldwide literary phenomenon. He will talk to Marianne Ponsford, director of Arcadia.
