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PAOLO GIORDANO - Can Science Provide the Answer to Contemporary Challenges?

PAOLO GIORDANO IN CONVERSATION WITH KIRSTY LANG SONNTAG, 01.10. 2023 / 14h00, AKADEMIE DER BILDENDEN KÜNSTE WIEN, AULA PAOLO GIORDANO is a polymath: a physicist, novelist and a public intellectual who finds “comfort in maths.” He is the youngest writer ever to win Italy’s prestigious literary award, the Premio Strega prize for fiction. His first novel, The Solitude of Prime Numbers, sold one million copies worldwide and was translated into over thirty languages. Giordano was one of the first writers to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, with an influential book-length essay written in the middle of the first Italian lockdown. His latest novel, Tasmania, is about climate change and our fear of losing control. The protagonist is a young man who once believed that science would provide him with all the answers but finds himself faced with a wall of questions. In conversation with the BBC’s KIRSTY LANG, Giordano will explore the increasingly complex relationship between science, literature and society. ------------- Part of the Vienna Humanities Festival 2023. The Vienna Humanities Festival is a project by Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen and Time to Talk. In cooperation with: Falter, Open Society Foundations, Stadt Wien, Erste Stiftung, Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien and Volkstheater. Learn more about the Vienna Humanities Festival here: https://www.humanitiesfestival.at