Everything is ready for the 2026 edition of Incontri d’Autore, the event organized by the Municipality of Lavarone and the Sigmund Freud Municipal Library of Lavarone, which with its literary events will bring life and colors to the summer afternoons of Alpe Cimbra. With a rich program of afternoon appointments, scheduled at 5:15 p.m. – with some exceptions - from July 11 to September 3, the famous holiday spot of Sigmund Freud will be the theater for the meetings.
The first seasonal appointment is set for Saturday, July 11 with Caterina Manfrini, who will open the 2026 edition of Incontri d'Autore by presenting Sette volte bosco (Neri Pozza), a story that intertwines nature, memory, and identity. Following will be Saturday, July 18, journalist Giorgio Zanchini, who with Lockerbie (Laterza) will lead the audience into a reflection on one of the most dramatic episodes of contemporary history.
Thursday, July 23 will feature Tiziana Ferrario, who will present Anna K. The novel of the extraordinary life of Anna Kuliscioff (Edizioni Fuoriscena), dedicated to one of the most significant female figures in Italian history, while Saturday, July 25 Enzo Iacchetti will take the stage with 25 minutes of happiness (Never losing melancholy) (Bompiani), a book that alternates irony, reflection, and life stories.
July will conclude with two events dedicated to fiction and popularization: Tuesday, July 28 will feature Riccardo Bertoldi, author of Everything begins when you stop waiting (Rizzoli), while Thursday, July 30 popularizer and professor Nello Cristianini will present Forma mentis. The race to decipher the thoughts of machines (il Mulino), a journey through artificial intelligence, language, and the future.
Opening the month of August will be Francesco Vidotto, the protagonist of the meeting on Saturday, August 1 with the novel The fir and the birch. A story of love and trees (Bompiani). On Sunday, August 2 Piero Badaloni will recount his long professional experience through The RAI I lived. Diary of a (tele)commentator (Le Piccole Pagine).
The following week will feature three meetings: Wednesday, August 5 Raffaella Calgaro will present We are no longer afraid. Stories of women and mountains (Marcianum Press), Thursday, August 6 Giacomo Panozzo will guide the audience on an original journey between history and current events with Why will it happen yesterday? Understanding the present through previous episodes of history (Salani), while Saturday, August 8 Marco Pozza will offer a reflection on the everyday and spirituality through The honey and the onions (San Paolo Edizioni).
The week of Ferragosto will open Wednesday, August 12 with Cristina Tomasi, who will present The metabolism revolution (Vallardi), dedicated to health and prevention issues. Friday, August 14 will feature climber Tamara Lunger, the protagonist of the meeting with A woman who walks with the wind. Me and Tùje: three months on foot in the Mongolian steppe (Rizzoli), an intense travel and discovery narrative.
Tuesday, August 18 journalist Sigfrido Ranucci will bring to Lavarone The return of the caste (Bompiani), a volume dedicated to current affairs and journalistic investigation. Thursday, August 20 Gianluca Ruggieri will lead the audience in discovering contemporary energy challenges with The world's energies. Fossil, nuclear, renewable: what we need to know (Laterza).
The last meetings of the event will feature Catena Fiorello Galeano, who Saturday, August 22 will present the novel Serenata Salentina (Rizzoli), and Maurizio De Giovanni, guest Sunday, August 23 with The watchmaker's time (Feltrinelli), a new chapter in his appreciated narrative production.
The event will continue Saturday, August 29 with Massimo Gaggi and Tamara Jadrejcic, authors of America inside. Stories, faces, conflicts of a Country on the brink (Laterza), an analysis dedicated to contemporary United States.
Closing the 2026 edition of Incontri d'Autore will be, Thursday, September 3, Mariapia Veladiano, who will present God of dust (Guanda), concluding a summer of books, dialogues, and reflections that once again will make Lavarone a reference point for lovers of reading and meeting with authors.
Incontri d’Autore is the literary review that, every summer since the 1990s, the decade in which it was born as LavaronEstate, the lake, a book, proposes its initiatives within the rich panorama of events that animate the summer season in Alpe Cimbra. An opportunity for listening and participation, dialogue and deepening increasingly establishes itself as a place to know, to engage with authors, meeting their voices and points of view, to multiply knowledge, to think and, why not, to rethink.
Many, indeed, are the prominent names of contemporary journalism, politics, culture, and Italian narrative who have graced the Lavaronese stage over the years, throughout the many editions that have found a place at the Gionghi Conference Center to talk about books, literature, and current affairs. In dialogue with an always engaged and involved audience in debates capable of transforming every meeting into a true literary happening.
Among the authors and authors, we remember the participation of Enzo Biagi, Giovanni Floris, Marco Travaglio, Tony Capuozzo, Gherardo Colombo, Gianni Vattimo, Stefano Bollani, Antonio Caprarica, Gianantonio Stella, Natalino Balasso, Mauro Corona, Erri De Luca, Flavio Caroli, Giulio Giorello, Andrea Vitali, Corrado Passera, Gianluca Nicoletti, Sveva Casati Modignani, Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Antonia Arslan, Antonio Di Bella, Paolo Rumiz, Paolo Mieli, Gianna Schelotto, Paolo Crepet, Simone Moro, Nives Meroi, Beppe Severgnini, Ferruccio De Bortoli, Carlo Cottarelli, Andrea Purgatori, Alan Friedman, Serena Bortone, Enrico Galiano, Sigfrido Ranucci, and Antonella Viola.
Unable to attend, for natural reasons, but worthy of mention is Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis and a central figure of the twentieth century, who spent long and pleasant summer holidays in Lavarone for four seasons. The sweetness of the landscape, the restful woods, the well-being derived from walks and swimming in the clear waters of the lake, but also the exceptional tranquility of the place allowed him to meditate, study, write, and exchange opinions with visiting students and colleagues.
The illustrious figure lends its name to the Municipal Library, which, together with the Municipality of Lavarone, organizes and promotes Incontri d’Autore, an initiative that for several years has benefited from the patronage of the Office for the Trentino Library System and Cultural Participation and the contribution of the Trentino Alto Adige Region, and relies on the collaboration of Crushsite, the regional portal for culture, art, and entertainment, as a media partner for the event. Many collaborations with local associations and entities, from APT Alpe Cimbra to Cassa Rurale Vallagarina, from the Magnifica Comunità degli Altipiani Cimbri to Respiro degli Alberi, from the Avez del Prinzep Committee to Forte Belvedere, from the Giunti bookstore in Asiago to the Piccola Libreria di Levico, to the Gradiva Study Center.
July 11
Caterina Manfrini, Seven times forest (Neri Pozza)
July 18
Giorgio Zanchini, Lockerbie (Laterza)
July 23
Tiziana Ferrario, Anna K. The novel of the extraordinary life of Anna Kuliscioff (Edizioni Fuoriscena)
July 25
Enzo Iacchetti, 25 minutes of happiness (Never losing melancholy) (Bompiani)
July 28
Riccardo Bertoldi, Everything begins when you stop waiting (Rizzoli)
July 30
Nello Cristianini, Forma mentis. The race to decipher the thoughts of machines (il Mulino)
August 1
Francesco Vidotto, The fir and the birch. A story of love and trees (Bompiani)
August 2
Piero Badaloni, The RAI I lived. Diary of a (tele)commentator (Le Piccole Pagine)
August 5
Raffaella Calgaro, We are no longer afraid. Stories of women and mountains (Marcianum Press)
August 6
Giacomo Panozzo, Why will it happen yesterday? Understanding the present through previous episodes of history (Salani)
August 8
Marco Pozza, The honey and the onions (San Paolo Edizioni)
August 12
Cristina Tomasi, The metabolism revolution. The metabolic protocol against inflammation and insulin resistance to prevent diseases, slow aging, and lose weight (Vallardi)
August 14
Tamara Lunger, A woman who walks with the wind. Me and Tùje: three months on foot in the Mongolian steppe (Rizzoli)
August 18
Sigfrido Ranucci, The return of the caste (Bompiani)
August 20
Gianluca Ruggieri, The world's energies. Fossil, nuclear, renewable: what we need to know (Laterza)
August 22 Catena Fiorello Galeano, Serenata Salentina (Rizzoli)
August 23
Maurizio De Giovanni, The watchmaker's time (Feltrinelli)
August 29
Massimo Gaggi and Tamara Jadrejcic, America inside. Stories, faces, conflicts of a Country on the brink (Laterza)
September 3
Mariapia Veladiano, God of dust (Guanda)
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