{"id":11336,"date":"2017-12-14T10:12:06","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T09:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/?p=11336"},"modified":"2017-12-14T10:12:06","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T09:12:06","slug":"meet-the-author-franca-benedusi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/11336\/news\/incontro-lautrice-franca-benedusi\/","title":{"rendered":"{:en}MEETING WITH AUTHOR FRANCA BENEDUSI{:}"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{:en}<strong>PRESS RELEASE (12\/14\/2017)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday, December 16<\/strong>, a\u00a0<strong>Loano<\/strong>, to the\u00a0<strong>4 p.m.<\/strong>,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>at\u00a0<strong>Council Chamber in Doria Palace <\/strong>the presentation of the book \u201c<strong>I had a blue handkerchief<\/strong>\u201c of <em><strong>Franca Benedusi<\/strong><\/em>, organized by the\u2019<strong>UNITRE of Loano\u00a0<\/strong>under the auspices of the <strong>Municipality of Loano<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The latest novel by the writer from Alba, Italy. <em><strong>Franca Benedusi<\/strong><\/em>, is an interweaving of love stories and conflicts, of immense tragedies and family dramas that mingle between past and present, war and peace, Langhe and Argentina. the center of it all is Lunetta, home of Franca Benedusi, her place of the heart, the place of all her books.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>I had a blue handkerchief<\/strong>\u201c is a novel that touches on the theme of memory, freedom, desire, rebirth. Characters that chase each other, relationships that intertwine, unhappiness that grows, for once life, for a future to be built.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Franca Benedusi<\/strong> was born in Niella Belbo on November 10, 1943. After attending schools in Mondov\u00ec, she began her working career as a teacher. She abandoned it for family reasons: she married and moved to Turin, where she worked as a clerk in municipal offices. At 37, she moved to Alba, where she continued to work in the municipal offices.<br \/>\nHe has published:\u00a0<em>The new moon is hiding<\/em>\u00a0(GRIFL publisher, 2003, Cairo Montenotte);\u00a0<em>And the moon appears<\/em>\u00a0( GRIFL publisher, 2004, Cairo Montenotte), with which he won numerous awards throughout Italy.<br \/>\nIn 2009 he published the novel The War of Egle (Araba Fenice Editions). In 2013, also from Araba Fenice, came out the novel\u00a0<em>Lunetta's women<\/em>. In 2013 he collected in the volume\u00a0<em>The first moons<\/em>(Araba Fenice) all his short stories with some unpublished ones. In 2015 he published the novel\u00a0<em>My name is Daniela<\/em>\u00a0(Arabian Phoenix).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;{:}<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{:en} PRESS RELEASE (14\/12\/2017) On Saturday, December 16, Loano will hold a presentation of the book \u201cI Had a Blue Handkerchief\u201c by Franca Benedusi, organized by UNITRE of Loano with the sponsorship...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}