Multipli Forti is a first annual appointment to open the Contemporary Italian Literary Fiction Festival in New York City. It will take place over three days, June 6th to 8th, and in three different locations: the Italian Cultural Institute, the Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA), and the Rizzoli Bookstore, but many of the participants are writers, publishers and scholars, both Italians and Americans. 

Chiara Benetollo, Luca Briasco, Monica Calabritto, Alessandro Giammei e Eugenio Refini are the scholars leading the panels of this event promoted by the Italian Cultural Institute under the direction of Fabio Finotti, in collaboration with Maria Ida Gaeta, artistic director of FUIS – Federazione Unitaria Italiana Scrittori (Italian Federation of Writers).