Valentina Alferj

Valentina Alferj is a literary agent and professional in the design and production of cultural and contemporary art projects, with long experience both nationally and internationally.
Longtime collaborator of Andrea Camilleri, she has been his assistant and agent, dealing with all of the writer's activities.
Born in Pescara, after graduating from the Scuola Superiore per Interpreti e Traduttori in Rome, she began working in the production, distribution and promotion of theater, music, dance and visual arts performances in Italy and around the world.
She has been training with Gino de Dominicis - helping him as press office - devoting herself to research-based theater and working on projects of international relevance.
She collaborates with Aldo Grompone theatrical agency on several productions and festivals.
She follows the tours of Luca Ronconi, Hanna Schygulla, Vanessa Redgrave, Eimuntas Nekrosius.
Also for Aldo Grompone's theatrical agency, she produces the Festival de Tango of the city of Buenos Aires in Rome, Paris, Madrid and Lisbon.
In the same period she began to follow the productions of Societas Raffaello Sanzio curating, among others, Tragedia Endogonidia, a dramatic system in 11 episodes that premiered in the 2002 Festival d'Avignon. At the same time, she is involved in contemporary art projects that will lead her to collaborate with Fondazione Levi (50th Venice Biennale), Jan Fabre (Cantieri della Zisa, Palermo - Macro in Rome), Wonder Holland (Foro Traiano in Rome), and with Romeo Castellucci (Avignon, Rome, Palermo and Bologna).

In 2002 she meets Andrea Camilleri .
As an assistant, agent, editor, she will carry out a wide range of coordination work for the writer: from the evaluation of projects to communication and correspondence, to the supervision of literary, theatrical, cinematic texts and television scripts.
In 2018 she took care of the production of the theatrical show Conversazione su Tiresia, written and performed by Andrea Camilleri and directed by Roberto Andò, which was staged at the Greek Theater in Syracuse, screened in cinemas throughout Italy and in prime time on Rai Uno.
She will work and write with him until his death, in July 2019.

Increasingly involved in cultural planning, in the early 2000s she is responsible for organizing and producing events for Zone Attive, the operational arm of the Municipality of Rome for the cultural programming of events. Among these, the Letterature Festival at the Basilica of Massenzio, the Biennale dei Giovani Artisti del Mediterraneo, Enzimi and the European Film Awards.
Together with Barbara Frandino and Elisa D'Angelo, in 2006 she founded Gush, a company active in the conception and production of editorial, multimedia and cultural events projects.
They think and realize events, festivals, documentaries, exhibitions, audiobooks and curatirship of events and meetings for the largest Italian cultural institutions and companies, including 150 Le Storie d’Italia (Rai and Repubblica) and the live series Interviste Impossibili (Auditorium e Rai), from which two books are taken, Corpo a Corpo (Einaudi, 2008) and E Ti Vengo a Cercare (Einaudi, 2011). She collaborated on the dialogues of the successful tv series Il Commissario Montalbano (Palomar), and in 2022 on the subject and screenplay of Kostas (Palomar).
Consultant for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the study of evaluation, conception and production of Sabir, Festival di Letteratura Araba Contemporanea between Ragusa, Modica, Scicli and Syracuse (2004-2006), she is a member of the jury Italian Capital of the book, within the Direzione generale Biblioteche e Diritto d’Autore of the Ministry of Culture.
Since 2021, she has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Modern and Contemporary Art Gallery of Rome.

After the experience as a literary agent in ALI, she is co-founder in 2015 of the Alferj e Prestia literary agency.
In 2023 she founded Alferj agency, which besides the activity of literary curatorship continues to deal with and promote all possible declinations of genius and culture.