The season of major presentations at Ubik in Olbia continues with Matteo Porru: on Saturday, starting at 6:30 p.m., the garden of the bookstore on Viale Aldo Moro will host the child prodigy of Italian literature and his new book, "Andirivieni. Quick Notes of a Traveling Sardinian," published by Il Maestrale.
Sofia Landolfi will be in conversation with the very young author of novels and essays, playwright, screenwriter, and television writer, who at 25 boasts numerous awards, including the Premio Campiello Giovani and the Grand Prix du Livre, as well as the Premio Navicella Sardegna, which he received in 2024 in Gallura, in Porto Rotondo, and a documentary dedicated to him, "Matte," available on RaiPlay.
With contributions from sociologist Bachisio Bandinu, musicians Paolo Fresu and Moses Concas, fashion designer Antonio Marras, journalist Virginia Saba, and Alessandra Todde, President of the Autonomous Region of Sardinia, in "Andirivieni. Quick Notes of a Traveling Sardinian," Porru charts the geography of an island, Sardinia, that is no longer stationary, nor does it aspire to be so. He does so through the experience of travel, which can help us understand the absence of borders, despite physical ones, and appreciate a wholeness born of distance.
