Marco Candida to give talk today on Italian literature trends The Arts and Sciences Interdisciplinary Speaker Series and Department of English will host Marco Candida, a current research scholar at UND, presenting “Giorgio Manganelli and the Avant-garde Movement in Post-World War II Italian Literature.” The talk will take place at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 12, in 116 Merrifield Hall. Candida will talk about trends in Italian literature following World War II and in particular, the avant-garde movement of Gruppo Sessantatre (group sixty-three) and Giorgio Manganelli's famous experimental novel, "Centuria," a novel of 100 “micro novels.” Candida is from Tortona, Italy, and has published three novels in the last year and a half: "La mania per l'alfabeto" (Sironi Editore, 2007), "Il diario dei sogni" (Las Vegas Edizioni, 2008), and "Domani avro' trent'anni" (Eumeswil, 2008). -- Rebecca Weaver-Hightower, Assistant Professor, English, rwh@und.nodak.edu, 7-6391