In her lecture, and based on personal experience, Agnello Hornby reflected on developments in Italian society and law with a special focus on women. She then went on to discuss the readership of Italian literature, with a special reference to female authorship and the publishing world, which seems to select primarily male authors in translation. Counter-examples to this trend were represented by figures such as Elvira Sellerio, the publisher of Andrea Camilleri’s Montalbano, whose influential work was highlighted during the talk.
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