The unique Dedica festival has characterised the vibrant landscape of Italian literary events for twenty-nine years. Due to its original formula, which condenses stage performances, conversations, music, art and books into one intense week, the event offers a true insight into the world of the featured author, around whom each edition constructs its own specific itinerary. Dedica thus offers the public the opportunity to reflect on the personality of the guest chosen as dedicatee, in order to gain insight into their thoughts, cultural contexts and the various art forms that the different means of expression are able to reveal from their literary work.
The 31st edition of the Dedica Festival presents the Iranian-Dutch writer Kader Abdolah.
His writing is linear, his way of communicating is characterised by a certain lightness and simplicity, but the themes he deals with are profound, capable of arousing emotions and making us think.
A fascinating author with a narrative skill worthy of a gripping storyteller, he knots the plots of his books
weaving past and present, reality and imagination, language and literature from different cultural contexts, with the declared intention of building a bridge of dialogue between East and West, aware that only by knowing the other can we truly understand who we are.
Devised and curated by Thesis Associazione Culturale, the Dedica project is sponsored by public institutions and bodies – in particular by the Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, the PromoTurismoFVG, the Municipality of Pordenone, the Fondazione Friuli foundation – and is staged with the support of important private entities and special partners: Servizi CGN, COOP Alleanza 3.0, UnipolSai – AssiLab Previdenza e Servizi Pordenone, and BCC Pordenonese e Monsile.
The 2025 edition of the festival has also obtained the Patronage of the Ministry for Culture, the Embassy of Kingdom of the Netherlands in Italy, the Nederlands Letterenfonds in Rome, the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, and the University of Udine, through cooperation with the Department of Languages and Literature, Communications, Education and Society and the Alpen-Adria University in Klagenfurt.
The Festival is currently curated by Claudio Cattaruzza.
