The Dante Alighieri Society of Ottawa is pleased to host journalist, writer and academic Arianna Dagnino for the presentation of her 2019 novel The Afrikaner (Guernica Editions) This book presentation coincides with the release of the German translation (by PalmArt Press publisher in Berlin), and the audiobook version of the novel read by Los Angeles-based voice actor Dennis Kleinman. Dagnino, who currently teaches Italian Studies at the University of British Columbia, was inspired to write this novel by her five years (1996-2000) in South Africa where she served as an international reporter for the Italian press. The Afrikaner centers on Zoe Du Plessis (33), a woman scientist of Afrikaner descent, in a tale of love, historical guilt and science, set between South Africa and Namibia. The novel is currently being adapted to screen in collaboration with the Centre for Cinema and Film Studies at the University of British Columbia. For this book presentation Arianna Dagnino will be joined by Stefano Gulmanelli who worked in South Africa along with Dagnino and teaches Sociology of Identity and Sociology of Migration at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. They both serve on the volunteer board of directors of the Dante Alighieri Society of British Columbia. The book presentation will offer the opportunity for a conversation spanning from intercultural relations, multiculturalism in Canada and South Africa, to the relationship between science and the notion of magic, through the eyes of an Italian writer and an Italian scholar. The event will be in English with an introductory interview of the author in Italian. Zoom link provided in your registration.