(20 September 2017) Pen, paper, fantasy, and creativity: everything is set in Munich for the workshops with the Italian sociologist, Silvia Di Natale. “Do you have a story hidden away but don’t know how to write it? Do you feel you know how to write, but you can’t find a story to tell? Have you already written pieces, but you need some advice? And most of all, do you want to learn how to write? The answer is: yes. The important thing is to not be afraid to begin”. This is the the invitation released by the Italian Institute of Culture of Munich (Hermann-Schmid-Str. 8, 80336 München) where, starting Thursday October 12^th, five creative writing workshops, organised by the IIC and Forum Italia, with Di Natale will take place every Thursday from 18:00 to 21:00. Di Natale was born in Genova in 1951 and later moved to Germany, first in Munic, where she teaches courses for Italian professionals and is also a teaching assistant in the Sociology in Developing Countries course. She later moved to Ratisbon. She also carried out research at the University of Munich, Ratisbon, and Hildesheim. She is also the former president of the “Council for Foreigners” of the city of Ratisbona. (PO/red)

SILVIA DI NATALE

Silvida Di Natale lives and works in her house on the lake west of Munich. She has published seven novels, a travel reportage, and a children’s book for the publishing houses Feltrinelli, Piemme, and De Agostini. Soon her second anthology of pieces by her female students from the Ellemù Creative Writing School will be released.