The Irish naturalized American writer will receive the award on May 14 in Udine as part of the near / far festival. The volume published by Feltrinelli and tells of two fathers, one Israeli and the other Palestinian, united by the loss of their daughters
Will Colum McCann for the novel Apeirogon (translation by Marinella Magr, Feltrinelli, 2021) the eighteenth edition of the Tiziano Terzani International Literary Prizea recognition established and promoted by the cultural association near / far of Udine together with the family of
journalist and writer who passed away in 2004. This was announced on Friday 22 April by the president of the jury Angela Terzani Staude, wife of Titianunderlining how while the horror of war knocks again on the doors of Europe, Colum McCann gives us hope, showing us that under the logic of politics, and geopolitics, people move, and there are many, that the pain of loss , to the humiliation of defeat, they have decided to oppose, from below, a courageous, tireless pursuit of dialogue.
Colum McCann – naturalized American author, born in Dublin in 1965 – receive the prize on Saturday 14 May in Udine (9 pm, Teatro Nuovo Giovanni
da Udine): it will be the protagonist of the evening-event in the context of the near / far festival, this year scheduled from 11 to 15 May (the eighteenth edition). McCann will talk to the journalist, writer and director Francesca Mannocchi, while Radiodervish will be speaking for the musical part.
The winning novel takes its title from a geometric figure, the polygon with an infinite number of sides: the apeirogon, in fact. They are its protagonists
the Israeli Rami and the Palestinian Bassam who each lose a daughter, victims of violence, and try to understand a reality too complex to be observed, and judged, from one side only: the torment, comments Angela Terzani, transforms them into men of peace: accomplices in a new battle to be fought together, using the common pain of fathers as their only weapon.
The other authors entered the five finalists 2022 were Fabio Deotto (for The other world. Life on a changing planetBompiani), the Norwegian Erika Fatland (per Life at the top. A season in the HimalayasMarsilio), the Uyghur Gulbahar Haitiwaji (who signed with the French Rozenn Morgat Survivor of a Chinese gulag. The first testimony of a Uyghur womanAdd publisher) and the Turkish Ece Temelkuran (per Trust and dignity. Ten urgent choices for a better presentBollati
Boringhieri). The jury presided over by Angela Terzani who awarded the award composed of Enza Campino, Toni Capuozzo, Marco Del Corona, Andrea Filippi, Milena Gabanelli, Nicola Gasbarro, Ettore Mo, Carla Nicolini, Marco Pacini, Paolo Pecile, Remo Politeo and Marino Sinibaldi.
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