The writer won 96 preferences out of 573 votes cast by about a thousand students from over 100 schools. On June 8 in Benevento the announcement of the five of the Strega
While in Benevento he prepares the ceremony on June 8 in the Roman Theater for the announcement of the five finalists of the Premio Strega 2022, the Maria e Goffredo Bellonci Foundation announced on Tuesday 7 the winner of the 9th edition of the Strega Giovani Prize: this year the award went to Veronica Raimo with the novel Nothing true (Einaudi). The proclamation, announced by Stefano Petrocchi, director of the Foundation, took place in the Pala Studio of Cinecittà, in Rome, in the presence of teachers and pupils of the schools who are part of the jury. The boys were able to meet the candidate authors of the dozen semi-finalists.
Writer and screenwriter, in her novel Veronica Raimo speaks of a Puglia different from the white and clear one of the trulli and the masserie, of “a parched land, homeland of grim grandmothers and dirty uncles”. The of him is, by its very definition, “a coming-of-age novel that gets nowhere.” Raimo photographs people and social relationships, recounting «a misunderstood sexuality and family relationships that stumble». As Giulia Caminito, another author and finalist of Strega 2021, told in an interview (published in “7”), this is a novel that focuses entirely on the voice and little on the plot, because “I’m interested in writing, style, tone – he reveals – and when I see hints of plot I get bored as hell: I seem to recognize the scheme behind it right away “. And she adds: “The plot bores me in television series, in novels, in screenplays.” And Caminito confirms: when Veronica “moves away from a more controlled and cerebral writing to experiment with the comic register”, telling her family story, “the desire to overcome the rigidity of the classic novel emerges from this breezy and irreverent tale, to open up to hybridization ».
A particular style that of Raimo, who won 96 preferences out of 573 votes cast: Nothing true was the book most voted by a jury of about a thousand girls and boys between 16 and 18 from over 100 schools upper secondary schools distributed in Italy and abroad (Berlin, Brussels, Paris). In second and third place they classified Alessandra Carati, And then we’ll be safe (Mondadori), 77 votes, e Claudio Piersanti, That damned Vronsky (Rizzoli), 58 votes. The three books most voted by the children receive a valid vote for the designation of the finalists at the LXXVI edition of the Strega Prize.
During the event in Cinecittà, the winner of the Bper Banca competition (a scholarship) for the best review was also awarded – Annalisa Petracca (Liceo Aristofane, Rome) – and the winner of the “Leggiamoci Prize” 2022 for the Best unpublished short story, which went to Elisa Fantinel (Liceo Statale Farnesina, Rome) for the story The Neanderthal baby . In second and third place of the Leggiamoci Prize they classified Enrica Cossu (Pacinotti scientific high school, Cagliari) with The girl with the violin e Roberta Novelli (Rosetti Scientific High School, San Benedetto del Tronto) with The solid fragility of the waves.
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