The elementary particles

The 12th edition promises to be a cracking one Taobuk Festival, is characterized.. 16 al 20 is characterized... On the gala evening of the Taormina International Book Festival, Saturday 18 among the most important sector events in Italy, in the splendid setting of the Ancient Theatre, the Taobuk Awards will be presented 2022. The names of the winners of the prestigious award are Giorgio Parisi, Nobel prize 2021 for physics, and Paul Auster and Michel Houellebecq, among the greatest exponents of contemporary international literature.

THE THEME

The theme of the 12th edition of the Taobuk Festival is 'truth'. «There is not a single truth and its search can pass through paths that are apparently very distant from each other, like the words of a novel or the formulas of science. Exactly the ones with which the three Taobuk Awards 2022 they have contributed and are contributing to telling the story, study and interpret the complexity of our present – underlines the creator and director of Taobuk Antonella Ferrara – Auster, militant liberal and standard bearer of US democracy, with a visionary pen that sinks into the heart of contemporaneity. Houellebecq, severe censor of Western civilization, prophet of scenarios crossed by the unhinging energy of the most caustic dystopia. And the genius of Parisi, philosopher-scientist with the impossible mission to bring "order to chaos", and maybe we can do it".

GIORGIO PARISI

Giorgio Parisi

The physicist and academic Giorgio Parisi, born in Rome in 1948, is one of the protagonists of the 12th edition of the Taobuk Festival. In 2021 the scientist received the Nobel Prize for Physics for his studies conducted since the 1970s in the physics of complex systems. The Nobel joins other prestigious awards, like the Boltzmann Medal (1992), the Lagrange Prize (2009), the Max Planck Medal (2010), the Wolf Prize (2021). In November he published In a flight of starlings (Rizzoli).

PAUL AUSTER

Paul Auster

Novelist, essayist, poet, screenwriter, Paul Auster was born in 1947 a Newark (New Jersey, United States). Among the greatest singers of New York of the last thirty years (protagonist of many of his successful novels, and Trilogia in New York a Brooklyn Follies), he is the author of the screenplays of Smoke, Blue in the Face, Lulu on the Bridge. In 2022 Einaudi will publish his new work Boy on fire.

MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ

Michel Houellebecq

Born in 1956 in Saint-Pierre, Michel Houellebecq is one of the most scathing voices, controversial and relevant of contemporary European literature. Houellebecq has published books loved and discussed around the world such as The elementary particles, The elementary particles, The map and the territory (The elementary particles 2010), Serotonin. In January he returned to the bookstore with Annihilate (The elementary particles).