Joyce Carol Oates at IULM for Noir in Festival
The American writer will be a guest speaker at our Athenaeum on December 6
Prolific, multifaceted, and persistent. These are just three of the many adjectives that fit well with the figure of Joyce Carol Oates, one of the best-known and most widely read American writers in the world. Novelist, playwright, author of short stories, poet, essayist: Oates' writing travels through and across different forms but also confronts different genres. The Noir in Festival, directed by Marina Fabbri and Giorgio Gosetti, will honor her this year with the Raymond Chandler Award, recognition of the career of a master of the thriller and noir literary genre.
Among her most famous works, to limit ourselves to the 20th century, are Blonde (2000), a revisitation between document and narrative fiction of the life of Marylin Monroe; the recent thriller Babysitter (2022), from a news story featuring a serial killer of children; the dark and brooding short story collection The Eye of Evil (2013), to the latest Butcher (2024), set in 1936 in a women's asylum, which earned the author the above award.
Joyce Carol Oates will meet with students and the public, in dialogue with IULM lecturers Fabio Vittorini and Anna Re, on Friday, December 6 at 11 a.m. in the Auditorium (IULM 6).
Admission to the event is free while places are available.
The Noir in Festival is part of the activities of theBadge of Honour.
The participation of students from all Degree Courses in at least 5 meetings during the days of the festival will correspond to the completion of 1 of the 4 or 6 activities (the former for master's degrees, the latter for bachelor's degrees), for the purpose of obtaining the Badge of Honour.