In 2020, when five men and a woman competed for the Prize, someone had hoped that the following year things would change, and they did. In the splendid setting of the Roman Theater of Benevento, the Premio Strega communicates, in fact, that among the five finalists of this edition, the seventy-eighth, there will be three women and two men. Leading the final squad is Emanuele Trevi with Two lives (Neri Pozza), followed Edith Bruck with The lost bread (The Ship of Theseus), Donatella Di Pietrantonio with Borgo Sud (Einaudi), Giulia Caminito with The lake water is never sweet (Bompiani) and Andrea Bajani with The book of houses (Feltrinelli). Three novels and two autobiographical books dominate the Prize, which last year brought Sandro Veronesi to victory for the second time.
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The book of houses di Bajani tells a story through the places where it develops; The lost bread by Bruck, winner of the Young Witch Prize, recounts the personal experience of the writer, forced to deal with the deaths of her parents and brother in concentration camps; Two lives of Trevi, currently the favorite, speaks of Rocco Carbone and Pia Pera, two dear friends of the author who died before becoming elderly; The lake water is never sweet by Caminito, on the other hand, is a novel set between Rome and Lake Bracciano which has as protagonists a little girl, Gaia, and her mother Antonia; finally, Borgo Sud by Di Pietrantonio tells the life of two sisters who grew up in a family with “significant emotional deprivation”. The final vote, the one that will decide the winner of the 2021 Strega Prize, will be held next July 8 in Rome, while they discuss some excellent exclusions that would certainly have deserved to arrive in five.
Two above all, It looked like beauty (Mondadori) of Teresa Ciabatti e Shine like life (Ponte alle Grazie) by Maria Grazia Calandrone. It remains that the number of titles proposed for this edition – 62 – bodes well, as Stefano Petrocchi, director of the Bellonci Foundation pointed out, for the future, because it is “an act of trust in this cultural institution”. This year’s finalist books were chosen by a jury composed of 660 entitled: to the votes of the “Friends of Sunday” (400 voters) were added, in fact, those of the readers chosen by independent libraries distributed throughout Italy, of the scholars, translators and enthusiasts of the language selected by the Italian Cultural Institutes abroad, and collective votes cast by schools, universities and reading groups.
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