Join us on Thursday, July 9, 2026 at the Civitella Castle for Presentations by Director’s Guest Will Heinrich, Writing Fellow Intan Paramaditha, & Music Fellow Diana Syrse. We will welcome you with light refreshments at 6:00 PM. Reserve your spot below or tune in to our livestream on Instagram @CivitellaRanieri.
6PM CEST Welcome Cocktail
6:15PM CEST/12:15PM EDT Presentations
Will Heinrich was born in New York and spent his early childhood in Japan. His first novel, The King’s Evil, won a PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship in 2004 and was recently reissued by Thousand Horsemen Press, which will also publish his short story collection From Darkness to Darkness this summer. He writes about art for The New York Times and teaches at the New York Studio School.
Intan Paramaditha is an Indonesian author, scholar, and feminist activist, and a 2026-2027 Harvard Radcliffe Fellow. She is the author of The Wandering (2020), longlisted for the Stella Prize and a winner of the English PEN Translates Award, and Apple and Knife, part of the Vintage Classics Weird Girls series. Her novel Night of a Thousand Hells is published in Italy by add editore and forthcoming from Europa Editions (October 2026). Her work has been translated into Italian, Japanese, and Polish, among other languages. She co-founded the feminist collective Sekolah Pemikiran Perempuan.
Diana Syrse is an award-winning composer and singer, recognized as one of the most compelling voices of her generation. Recipient of the Munich, Teatro La Fenice, and Fedora Audience Award, her catalogue spans over 100 works from song to opera, music–theatre, orchestral, choral, chamber, and electroacoustic music with 15+ stage productions. A composer-singer who often writes her own texts, she creates sound worlds shaped by theatre and voice, influenced by Latin American music, addressing politically and socially relevant themes. Her work has been published by Ricordi, Éditions Lacroch’, and Sur Editions.