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Territory of Affections, Silences and Encounters
European Literature Festival
The Festival of European Letters is a space for dialogue and literary and cultural exchange. Each session is a living and changing bridge between Europe and Latin America, where literature opens paths of conversation and understanding.
The festival brings together storytellers, poets, journalists and translators to discuss topics as diverse as inspiration, writing, passion, coexistence, marginality, memory, freedom of expression and human relations.

European Literature Festival
Territory of Affections, Silences and Encounters
In the work of Sofía Chanfreau, Donatella Di Pietrantonio and Jan Carson, the family is revealed as a territory of affections and fractures, of inherited silences and possible reunions. Through different narrative forms, these authors investigate the complexity of the links that make us up and overflow us.
A dialogue that invites us to adopt literature as a space where family ties cease to be mere social structures to become scenarios of transformation. From grief and motherhood to memory and imagination, her stories show that telling about the family is also a way of asking ourselves who we are.
Participants: Jan Carson, Sofia Chanfreau, Donatella Di Pietrantonio
Moderator: Suvi Roponen

Jan Carson
(Ireland)
Jan Carson is a writer based in Belfast. She has published three novels, three short story collections and two microfiction collections. Her novel, The Fire Starters won the European Literature Prize for Ireland, in 2019. Her most recent novel, The Raptures, was published by Doubleday in early 2022 and was subsequently shortlisted for the An Post Irish Novel of the Year and Kerry Group Novel of the Year awards. Her short story collection Quickly, While They Still Have Horses was published by Doubleday (UK) in April 2024, and by Scribner (USA) in July 2024. Her work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and 4 and RTE. She is a 2025 Seamus Heaney Centre Fellow at Queen's University Belfast, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her first play, an adaptation of the children's classic The Velveteen Rabbit, was produced by the Replay theatre company at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast in March 2025. Her next novel is Few and Far Between, which is to be published in early 2026.
Other activities involving the participant:
Annual International Storytellers Conference
Echoes of FIL

Sofia Chanfreau
Sofia Chanfreau (1986) y Amanda Chanfreau (1983) nacieron en Helsinki (Finlandia), crecieron en Åland (una isla finlandesa en el Báltico) y ahora viven en Malmö (Suecia). La autora del texto, Sofia Chanfreau, es productora musical, técnica de sonido y escritora. Estudió música y escritura creativa en Suecia y en Los Ángeles. La ilustradora, Amanda Chanfreau, es artista visual, tatuadora e ilustradora de libros infantiles.

Donatella Di Pietrantonio
(Italia, 1962)
Donatella Di Pietrantonio es una de las voces más potentes y conmovedoras de la narrativa italiana contemporánea. Nacida en Arsita, un pequeño pueblo de montaña en los Abruzos, ha sabido transformar su tierra natal en un escenario literario lleno de emociones crudas y relaciones familiares complejas. Debutó en 2011 con Mi madre es un río (Duomo ediciones, 2023), una novela que explora el vínculo entre una madre con Alzheimer y su hija. Este libro fue galardonado con el Premio Tropea. En 2017, alcanzó el reconocimiento internacional con La Retornada (Duomo ediciones, 2018), la historia de una adolescente devuelta a su familia biológica tras años con padres adoptivos. Este libro ganó el Premio Campiello y fue traducido a más de 30 idiomas. En 2023, publicó La edad frágil, una novela que aborda temas como la violencia de género y la fragilidad emocional durante la pandemia. Este libro le valió el Premio Strega y el Premio Strega Giovani en 2024.
Di Pietrantonio escribe desde el temblor: el de la infancia arrebatada, el del amor que no cuida, el del territorio que nos forma y nos fractura. En La edad frágil (Duomo Ediciones, 2025), su más reciente libro, aborda temas como las siempre complejas relaciones entre madres e hijas, la violencia de género y la fragilidad emocional durante la pandemia.
Wednesday, December 03
19:00 to 20:50