Pesaro 2024, Anna Prouse will be the next guest with her book “Of my war, of my peace”. 

An autobiography that is at the same time a novel, full of pain and joy, fragility and heroism: it is the book of Anna Prouse “Of my war, of my peace” (HarperCollins) that the author will present Saturday March 23 in Pesaro 2024 – Italian capital of culture as part of the 'Capital encounters' in dialogue with the journalist Paolo Pagnini (Alusfera in Piazza del Popolo, 17 hours). The actress will participate in the meeting Alessandra Giardina.

Consultant for the Italian and American governments in Baghdad and Nasiriyah from 2003 to 2011, Prouse is expert in terrorism and counter-terrorism, international relations and reconstruction and development of national identities. In over four hundred pages full of unpredictable paths, painful defeats and surprising victories, the author recounts her life experience, always on the front line, among the 'hottest' regions of the Middle East. Raised in a good Milanese family, with a future as a tennis champion that seems already written, Prouse suffers, however, an injury that changes her destiny: the vocation of travel which leads her to get to know distant places and the people who live there, to understand them and help them. Reporter in Iran from where he witnessed the tragedy of 11 September, the direction of a field hospital in Baghdad on behalf of the Red Cross during the Second Gulf War, the head of the reconstruction of a province in Southern Iraq: there are many experiences retraced in This memory where an existence is told that seems to contain many.

The next guest of 'Capital encounters' he will be the director of the newspaper La Repubblica Maurice Molinari and Monday March 25 (Alusfera in Piazza del Popolo, 18,30 pm) will present its “Disputed Mediterranean. Because the West and its rivals need it” (Rizzoli). The author converses with the journalist Lorenzo Luzi.