In a special preview of the XVIII Edition of the Rome International Literature Festival, the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Anthony Doerr (2005 Fellow), author of All the Light We Cannot See (2014) and a Resident at the American Academy in Rome this spring, will read an unpublished text exploring the theme of this year’s festival: Il domani dei classici/The Future of the Classics.

The event is a collaboration between the American Academy in Rome, the Rome International Literature Festival, Macro Asilo and BUR Rizzoli, Doerr’s Italian publisher, which celebrates its seventieth anniversary this year.

The events of the Rome International Literature Festival, conceived and organized by Maria Ida Gaeta, will continue from June 4 to July 3, 2019, at the Basilica di Massenzio in the Roman Forum.

Anthony Doerr is the Writer in Residence at the American Academy in Rome for spring 2019.

The event will be held in English and Italian. Simultaneous translation will be available.