THEUpon news is a few minutes ago: Andrea Bajani won the Strega Giovani 2025 prize with the book The anniversary (Feltrinelli). The announcement was made at the end of the event directed by Loredana Lipperini and organized by the Maria and Goffredo Bellonci Foundation at the Municipal Theater of Cardito.
The anniversary triumph with 97 votes out of a total of 595 expressed by A jury of girls and boys aged between 16 and 18 from over 100 secondary schools Italian and foreign second degree. Nadia Terranova, author of What I know of you (Guanda), It wins second place with 62 votes, while third place goes to Valerio Aiolli, author of Portofino blues (Voland)with 56 votes.
Bajani has already contributed for the witch in 2021, ranking fifth with The book of houses (Feltrinelli).
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The anniversary Andrea Bajani: journey into the complex territories of family relationships
The complexity of family relationships is the detachment are the central themes of the book. To give it shape is the first person story of the protagonist who decides to drastically cut any link with the family of origin.
Andrea Bajani, Credits: Musa
After exactly ten years from the inclusion, we find him to tell his story of geographical and emotional eradication in a very lucid way. The parental figures coincide with a mother who cancels and at the same time assumes an identity only to the extent that her husband sees her, a husband who proves to be an authoritarian and castrating father. Escape, detaching yourself by banging the door is the only way to affirm your personality and finally be reborn, without false repentance.
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Report the suburbs to the center: the new project of the Bellonci Foundation
During the event, the first edition of the project was told Periphery stories. Bring the suburbs back to the center of history. The project, which is part of the activities organized by the Foundation with the aim of spreading culture in the most disadvantaged areas, provides for the participation of some of the most authoritative voices of Italian literature, including Elena Stancanelli and Maria Grazia Calandrone, engaged in a cycle of writing and reading laboratories on a theme chosen by students.
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This first edition saw the involvement of some schools of the peripheral neighborhoods of Tor Bella Monaca in Rome and Caivano in Naples, identified as areas at risk and for this reason entered the priorities of the institutions, which are undertaking to rehabilitate the territories with initiatives of various kinds. The stories written by the pupils at the end of the laboratory will be published on the platform Leadmiamoci.it.
Writers in Fieri: the prizes of the Bellonci Foundation to young people
The Strega Prize has been promoting a series of awards for young adults for some time. Among the winners of this year there is Alessandra Ruotolo, student of the Don Gnocchi high school in Maddaloni, who received the Witch Nursery Strega Prize for the best review of the novel Poor to us by Elvio Carrieri (Ventanas). Matteo Lechiara of the Pitagora classical high school of Crotone and Allegra Raia, of the Mancini Scientific High School of Avellino, received a special mention for their reviews of the books of Renato Martinoni and of Wanda Marasco, Winning book of the Campiello Award 2025.
Finally, the Prize read 2025, whose ex aequo winners are Franca Pousa Oneto, of the Italian Equal School Castelfranco di Córdoba (Argentina), For the graphic story bag Viva, plastic turtle, and Noemi Mascolo and Mariateresa Tassetto, of the Liceo Braucci of Caivano (Naples), for the story the legend of the Iron House.
Tomorrow 4 June at the Roman theater in Benevento it will be The finalist of the Strega Prize announced announced.
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