With Incroci di Civiltà, the international festival of literature, Venice has cultivated its vocation as a crossroads between East and West since 2008. In previous years guests have included writers Orhan Pamuk, Salman Rushdie, Zhang Jie, Anita Desai and Kiran Desai.
The guests for the next edition, which will be held at the end of May, will include Zhu Wen, the 32-year-old author of Dollari la mia passione [I love dollars]. 

(Incroci di Civiltà Officiale Website)