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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2025
6 PM
PALAZZO DIEDO

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The event is held in Italian and French with consecutive translation in Italian.
Free entrance until capacity is met.

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Palazzo Diedo is pleased to host the author Yasmina Reza for the launch of her latest book Da nessuna parte, edited by Adelphi, in conversation with the writer Gianni Montieri.

Many of her long-time readers would like to know a little more about a writer who, throughout the years, has revealed very little about her private life and her past. Even interviewers who have tried to dig deeper have never been told the truth. In this volume, where the author herself has chosen to gather her first works of “literary” writing, her devoted readers will instead discover, through brief, even fleeting anecdotes, memories, reflections and confessions — “subjective snapshots of life” — a Reza willing to reveal her own fragility, her “soul laid bare”: the heartrending tenderness she feels for her children, first as young children and then as adolescents; her nostalgia for something that will never return (such as little Alta’s “toothless smile”); her father's final days; the awareness of belonging nowhere, of having no roots. Distilled within these fragments, her readers will also find all the themes that recur in her plays and novels — time, identity, memory, human bonds, death — but approached from a more intimate and unexpected perspective. And above all, a gaze unlike any other, and a prose of flawless, masterly elegance.

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Yasmina Reza (Paris, 1959) is a French playwright, novelist, screenwriter, and actress. She began her theatrical career as an actress before becoming one of the most renowned and acclaimed contemporary playwrights. Her first play, Conversation après un enterrement, first staged in 1987, earned her the Molière Award for Best Author. With her subsequent work Art, she achieved international success. Among her most recent publications are Anne-Marie the Beauty (Adelphi, 2021), Serge (Adelphi, 2022), and Normal Life (Adelphi, 2025).