2023-06-06 20:35:40
The recognition assigned by girls and boys goes to the writer who died on April 1, for Come d’aria (Elliot). In second and third place Rosella Postorino and Carmen Verde. Wednesday 7 June the fifth in Benevento
Countdown to the Cinquina dello Strega: on 7 June in the Roman Theater of Benevento the names of the finalists of the competition created by Maria Bellonci in 1947 will be announced, selected from the dozen chosen on 30 March. Meanwhile, the 10th edition of the Premio Strega Giovani ended in Naples on Tuesday 6, which went to the writer Ada d’Adamo – who passed away on 1 April, at the age of only 55 – for her Come d’aria (Elliot), one of the 12 books in the final also at the Strega, which tells the story of two women: Daria, disabled since birth due to a brain disease, and Ada, her mother, who assists her. A painful and poignant novel, which involved and impressed the jury of girls and boys between the ages of 16 and 18 from 91 secondary schools in Italy and abroad. Enough to collect 83 preferences out of 503 votes cast.
The proclamation, announced by Stefano Petrocchi, director of the Bellonci Foundation, took place in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples (Mann), in the presence of a hundred teachers and students who came from half of Italy. The award was given to Alfredo Favi, husband of the writer: I am happy about this award to Ada, and angry because she is no longer here to be able to receive it, he said, it is a consolation to know that his words have touched many young people. Second and third place went to Rosella Postorino, author of I was just loving you (Feltrinelli), with 64 votes, and Carmen Verde, author of A little unhappiness (Neri Pozza), with 60 votes. All three books by the writers on the Strega Giovani podium receive a valid vote for the designation of the finalists for the Strega Prize.
Excerpts from candidate books were read in the new Mann Auditorium — among the oldest and most important museums in the world, for the uniqueness of the archaeological heritage, directed by Paolo Giulierini — by Giovanna Sannino and Giuseppe Tantillo, actors of the popular television series Sea out. You are Daria. You are of air. The apostrophe transforms you into a light and impalpable substance – Tantillo articulated as he leafed through the pages of Come d’aria —. In your name there is a destiny that does not make you an earthly creature, because you have never known the force of gravity that calls you to earth. The protagonist of the novel, a fifty-year-old ex-ballerina, discovers she has cancer and tells her disabled daughter the story of their deep bond. Her time betrays her by forcing her disease, just as it betrayed her author, who died only two days after her entry into the Witch’s Dozen was announced. In the book as in reality, dance is the art of subtraction, an eternal sacrifice, a small death of the dancing body, wrote the very young Hasan Arda Fenerci, from the IMI Italian High School in Istanbul, who won the Strega Giovani Prize for best review offered by Bper Banca.
Abruzzese, Ada d’Adamo was born in Ortona (Chieti) but lived in Naples and Rome, where she graduated in Performing Arts and graduated from the National Academy of Dance Come d’aria era his debut novel (after a series of essays), admittedly autobiographical: she herself had a daughter who was severely disabled from birth.
In Naples with the Strega Giovani was also awarded the Let’s read 2023 Fiction for Future Award for the best unpublished story, ex aequo to the female students: Irene D’Onghia, for the graphic story We’re home, Pauland to Anita Elsa Carosi, for the narrative text My taleas well as to Flavia Nastro, for the graphic story The digital nature. Let’s read ourselves an online community of reading and writing enthusiasts, open to secondary school students, but also to all teachers. promoted by the Maria and Goffredo Bellonci Foundation, the Center for Books and Reading, in collaboration with Bper Banca, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (Maeci), Riverrun, the Vecchie Segherie Mastrototaro bookshop and Sygla.
After Naples and Benevento the Witch Tour will take the authors in competition around Italy – between Florence, Modena, Parma and Rimini. At each stage there will also be the Ticket to Read camper, which will create a new podcast series curated by Margherita Schirmacher and Enrico Orlandi to recount the journey of the finalists.
June 6, 2023 (change June 6, 2023 | 20:43)
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