Date: 28 MAY 2025 from 19:00 to 20:30
Event location: Aula Tibiletti, Via Zamboni, 38
Type: Meetings with the writers
Antonio Moresco, editor of the volume (Meridiani Mondadori, 2024), will discuss with Maurizio Ascari (University of Bologna) the work of English author Agatha Christie, the undisputed “Queen of Crime”, whose novels have sold millions of copies worldwide.
This will be a unique opportunity for scholars, students and crime fiction enthusiasts to explore the narrative mechanics behind some of the author’s most celebrated masterpieces.
The event is organised in collaboration with the association “Lo spazio letterario”.
Antonio Moresco is one of Italy’s most important contemporary writers, known for his fiction, theatre and non-fiction. He is the author of Lettere a nessuno (Bollati Boringhieri, 1997), Gli esordi (Feltrinelli, 1998), and Gli increati (Mondadori, 2015). In 2003 he co-founded the collective blog “Nazione Indiana” (the name was his idea), which he left in 2005 along with other members to launch the online and print magazine Il primo amore. In 2024, he edited Fiabe gialle, the Meridiano Mondadori volume dedicated to Agatha Christie.
Maurizio Ascari teaches English Literature at the University of Bologna. His recent publications include books and essays on crime fiction (A Counter-History of Crime Fiction, 2007, nominated for the Edgar Awards), transcultural literature (Literature of the Global Age, 2011), and the evolution of literary genres through hybridisation with other media (Cinema and the Imagination in Katherine Mansfield’s Writing, 2014). He has translated and edited works by Henry James, Katherine Mansfield, William Faulkner, Jack London, and Wilkie Collins.