Journalist

Scrittore e giornalista

Francesco Abate

Actress, singer and writer

Attrice, cantante e scrittrice

Saba Anglana

Multidisciplinary artist

Artista multidisciplinare

Ruggero Asnago

Writer and poet

Scrittrice e poetessa

Maria Attanasio

Illustrator and comic artist

Illustratore e fumettista

Riccardo Atzeni

Writer and editor

Scrittore ed editor

Ciro Auriemma

Chamber music trio

Trio di musica da camera

Trio Aurisanel

Artisans

Artigiani

BAM Design

Writer and academic

Scrittrice e accademica

Joanna Bator

Children's author

Autore per ragazzi

Teo Benedetti

Writer and screenwriter

Scrittrice e sceneggiatrice

Elisabetta Bucciarelli

Music conservatory

Conservatorio di musica

Conservatorio L. Cànepa

Translator

Traduttrice

Monika Carta

Writer

Scrittrice

Eleonora Caruso

Bibbiana Cau

Giornalista

Eugenio Cau

Paolo Celata

Photographer and visual artist

Fotografo e artista visuale

Marco Ceraglia

Clarinet trio

Trio di clarinetti

Trio Clarinetti

Journalist and writer

Giornalista e scrittrice

Gabriella Dal Lago

Magistrate and Writer

Magistrato e Scrittore

Giancarlo De Cataldo

Musician

Musicista

Gianfranco Delussu

Scrittore

Fabio Genovesi

Writer and translator

Scrittrice e traduttrice

Yaryna Grusha

Scrittore e traduttore

Michal Hvorecký

Mattia Insolia

Film school

Scuola di cinema

IpotesI Cinema

Cultural institute

Istituto di cultura

Istituto Polacco di Roma

Istituto Slovacco a Roma

Theatre collective

Collettivo teatrale

Collettivo Lan-De-Sì

Actress, Singer and Director

Attrice, Cantante e Regista

Maria Loi

Andrej Longo

Cultural association

Associazione culturale

Lughenè

Art Museum Province of Nuoro

Museo d'Arte della Provincia di Nuoro

Graziella Monni

Activist and writer

Attivista e scrittrice

Pegah Moshir Pour

Elvira Mujčić

Eshkol Nevo

Photography school

Scuola diffusa di fotografia

Nomad

Roy Paci

Francesco Pacifico

Actress and singer

Attrice e cantante

Elena Pau

Autrice per ragazzi

Serenella Quarello

Philosopher, populariser and writer

Filosofo, divulgatore e scrittore

Matteo Saudino

Sarah Savioli

Illustrator and graphic designer

Illustratore e graphic designer

Lucio Schiavon

Marta Serafini

Library system

Sistema bibliotecario

Sistema Bibliotecario del Sulcis

Interpreter

Interprete

Juana Sommermann Weber

Traditional music ensemble

Ensemble di musica tradizionale

Su Cunzertu Gavoesu

Widad Tamimi

Guitar trio

Trio chitarristico

Tea for Three

Elena Testi

Philosophers and Cultural Popularisers

Filosofi e Divulgatori Culturali

Tlon (Andrea Colamedici-Maura Gancitano)

Glass Artisan

Artista

Luigi Todde

Actor, author and director

Attore, autore e regista

Angelo Trofa

Nadeesha Uyangoda

Artist

Gisella Vacca

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Four days of meetings, readings, music, exhibitions and workshops confirmed the strength of a festival that, for twenty years, has brought a community together around books and ideas.
Gavoi (NU), 6 July 2026 – The 20th edition of L&#8217;Isola delle Storie – Sardinia&#8217;s Literary Festival came to a close yesterday in Gavoi. From 2 to 5 July it brought back to the heart of Barbagia authors, journalists and artists, together with a large and engaged audience who came to share four days of books, dialogues, music, exhibitions, workshops and meetings.
Twenty years after its birth, the festival confirmed one of its most precious qualities: the ability to gather full squares around stories and the most urgent questions of the present. At a time when cultural participation cannot be taken for granted, Gavoi continues to be a place where the audience chooses to stop, listen, discuss, ask questions, engage with complex themes and share time and attention.
The 20th edition opened on Thursday 2 July with the inauguration of the exhibitions and visual projects spread throughout the village and with Carapace, the musical show by Roy Paci that launched the festival in the Giardino Comunale.
Among the edition&#8217;s most recognisable spaces, Mezzogiorno di Fuoco was confirmed once again as one of the festival&#8217;s most eagerly awaited: an appointment devoted to debate on international current affairs, bringing together different voices, expertise, experiences and points of view. From Iran to Ukraine and the Middle East, the meetings brought to the squares of Gavoi questions that run through our present every day, returning them to the complexity of stories, testimonies and people&#8217;s lives.
The festival days then moved through Italian and international literature, journalism, philosophy, readings and storytelling, with meetings able to hold together books, thought, memory and current affairs. From the conversations of Dal Balcone – Universi al femminile with Maria Attanasio, Nadeesha Uyangoda and Elvira Mujčić, to the appointments of Esercizi di Meraviglia with Maura Gancitano, Andrea Colamedici, Matteo Saudino and Eleonora Caruso; from the international voices of Joanna Bator, Eshkol Nevo and Widad Tamimi, to the readings by Saba Anglana, Fabio Genovesi and Francesco Pacifico, up to the evenings with Francesco Abate and Giancarlo De Cataldo, the programme returned the plurality of perspectives that characterises the festival.
As always, an important part of the edition was dedicated to children and teenagers, with the programme curated by the Lughenè Cultural Association. Books, workshops, readings, theatre, comics, cinema, music and shows created opportunities for encounter between generations, languages and different ways of approaching stories. From Storie in gioco – the reading contest that involves children through the work of local libraries, this year won by Gavoi itself – to the workshops of writing, drawing, reading, movement and sound, up to the Parata strampalata that closed the journey on Sunday afternoon.
Art too was a protagonist of the festival days, with exhibitions and visual projects spread throughout the village: NODI by Marco Ceraglia, curated by MAN – Museo d&#8217;Arte della Provincia di Nuoro, at the Museo del Fiore Sardo; the photographic tribute to Daniela Zedda along the streets of the centre; the illustration exhibition Certe forme lo distraevano continuamente by Lucio Schiavon and the bibliographic exhibition Dove finisce il libro comincia il tuo viaggio, curated by Lughenè, at the Ex Caserma; the installation Ombre dell&#8217;Isola by BAM Design and Angelo Monne in piazza San Gavino.
The twentieth edition was not only an anniversary, but the confirmation of a story that keeps renewing itself in the relationship with the village, in the care of its places, in the large presence of volunteers, and in the dialogue with institutions, libraries, schools, cultural partners and the public. A milestone that also belongs to all the people, organisations and institutions that over these twenty years have walked, for a longer or shorter stretch, the road of the festival. For twenty years L&#8217;Isola delle Storie has been born from books and grown within a community that every summer comes back together around words, listening and the pleasure of being together.
On digital channels too the festival was followed by a wide and engaged audience, through social media and live streaming. In the coming days it will be possible to keep following the story of the edition just ended on L&#8217;Isola delle Storie&#8217;s social channels and to watch again the meetings streamed on the Festival&#8217;s YouTube channel.
<h3>Fact sheet</h3>
L&#8217;Isola delle Storie – 20th edition, Sardinia&#8217;s Literary Festival 
2–5 July 2026 
Gavoi (NU), Barbagia, Sardinia 
Free admission
Organisation 
L&#8217;Isola delle Storie Cultural Association 
via Garibaldi 2, 08020 Gavoi (NU) 
info@isoladellestorie.it – www.isoladellestorie.it
Press office 
Francesca Zanardo – GLASS studio 
zanardo@glass-studio.it – t. +39 328 4780660
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The 20th edition of L’Isola delle Storie comes to a close in Gavoi