Third edition of the small literary festival | 1–30 October
Five Wednesdays in October, five encounters with authors. Plus a special extra event and a musical finale!
Bibliomania returns to MAN in Nuoro, the festival that brings writers, artists, journalists, and performers to the museum, weaving together literature, visual arts, and critical reflection on the present.
What distinguishes the encounters are urgent and necessary themes, amplified by the museum itself: the imaginative capacity to rethink space and geographies, the struggle for civil rights and health, education in the care of landscape and relationships, and the resilience of communities in the face of global transformations.
Bibliomania 2025, curated by Alessandro Moni, is not just a program of presentations, but a journey across different genres and forms – from essays to memoirs, from fiction to reportage, and even illustrated books and electronic music – offering a mosaic of voices that reflect our present and open up possibilities for the future.
PROGRAM:
1 October | 6:30 PM
Terre che non sono la mia – Matteo Meschiari in conversation with Chiara Gatti, Director of MAN Museum.
The writer and anthropologist, professor of Cultural Geography at the University of Palermo, presents an atlas of maps and visions that redefines the very idea of geography, transforming it into a tool for imagination and otherness.
8 October | 6:30 PM
Sul filo della lama – David Wojnarowicz, translated by Chiara Correndo, in conversation with Enrico Mura, researcher.
An incendiary memoir that depicts 1980s America, the HIV epidemic, and the struggle for rights, through the voice of one of the most radical artists of the New York scene.
Chiara Correndo is a legal scholar specializing in gender issues and family law.
15 October | 5:00 PM | BiblioMANia Kids
Tana dolce casa – Reading and workshop with Claudia Piras.
In this illustrated book, the Nuoro-based illustrator, who collaborates with several Italian publishers, addresses the theme of deforestation and respect for nature, using images and activities designed for young children.
22 October | 6:30 PM
L’incontenibile forza della gentilezza – Ottavio Olita in conversation with Massimo Dadea.
Journalist and essayist, Olita presents a work that weaves together reality and fiction to explore practices of solidarity, hospitality, and integration in Sardinia and across Europe.
26 October | 6:30 PM | BiblioMANia Special Guest
L’immensa distrazione – Marcello Fois in conversation with Carlotta Lucato.
The renowned Nuoro-born writer returns to the MAN Museum with a preview of a family novel that spans the lives of different generations and explores the timeless themes of life and finitude.
29 October | 6:30 PM
I Nascosti – Valentina Tamborra in conversation with journalist Armando Besio.
A photographic and narrative report giving voice to the Sami people, custodians of millennia-old traditions and witnesses to the challenges of climate change. The author is a photographer and journalist who collaborates with leading national newspapers.
30 October | 7:00 PM | BiblioMANia Music Closing
Codici dell’isola – Jannemuru with Manuella (voice) and Marco Di Cesare (sax).
A sound performance created for the exhibition Islands and Idols, blending electronic experimentation and archaic rituality, transforming listening into an immersive experience.
BiblioMANia 2025 is an invitation to listen to stories born from the urgency of the present, yet able to speak in a universal way: imagined and real geographies, personal and collective memories, practices of resistance, care, and solidarity. It is an opportunity to inhabit the museum as a space for dialogue and community, where books and diverse forms of expression become tools for shared reflection.
Editions:
Matteo Meschiari. Terre che non sono la mia.
Una controgeografia in 111 mappe.
Bollati Boringhieri
Torino, 2025
(Fuori Collana)
David Wojnarowicz. Sul filo della lama. Memorie della disintegrazione.
Traduzione dall’inglese di Chiara Correndo
Postfazione di Jonathan Bazzi
Miraggi Edizioni, 2025
(Collana Tamizdat)
Mariapaola Pesce, Andrea Farotto. Tana dolce casa. Illustrazioni di Claudia Piras
Errekappa Edizioni, 2024
Ottavio Olita. L’incontenibile forza della gentilezza
Isolapalma, 2024
Marcello Fois. L’immensa distrazione
Einaudi, 2025
(Collana Supercoralli)
Valentina Tamborra. I nascosti
con un testo di William T. Vollmann
minimum fax, 2024