Preview of Rome's International Literature Festival at MACRO Asilo.

16 May. Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer Anthony Doerr provides a preview of Rome's 2019 International Literature Festival at MACRO Asilo on Thursday 16 May at 18.00.

The talk, which takes place in the MACRO auditorium, will see Doerr give the first public reading of his unpublished text on the festival's theme: The Classics Tomorrow: When does a contemporary text look like a classic?

Born in 1973, Doerr is an author of novels and short stories who gained widespread recognition for his 2014 novel All the Light We Cannot See, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

The event is organised in collaboration with the American Academy in Rome and BUR Rizzoli. Admission is free, while places last.

For details see MACRO website.