André Aciman in conversation with Miguel Barreda Delgado

They say you always return to where you were happy, and for André Aciman (Egypt/United States), that place is Italy. It was Italy in Call Me By Your Name and Find Me, and it takes on a more personal dimension in My Roman Year, where he recalls the first year he spent in Rome with his family after fleeing Egypt. There, a teenager discovers the city while trying to find his place in the world and experiencing love. This possibility of becoming someone else also runs through Room on the Sea, his most recent novel, not yet translated into Spanish, whose protagonists imagine the lives they could have lived. Alongside filmmaker Miguel Barreda Delgado (Peru), he will discuss literature and film, that profoundly human matter that lies between who we are and who we imagine we could have been.

Simultaneous interpretation from English to Spanish available