Per its XXVI Edition the Malaparte prize awarded Benjamin Labatutthe writer born in Holland and naturalized Chilean, as he is originally from the South American country, owes his fame in Italy above all to his book When we stopped understanding the world, published by Adelphi in 2021 with translation by Lisa Topi. The curator Gabriella Buontempo awarded the prize, together with the jury composed of Leonardo Colombati, Giordano Bruno Guerri, Giuseppe Merlino, Silvio Perrella, Emanuele Trevi and Marina Valensise.
Benjamin Labatut, Malaparte Prize 2023
Following his passion for science, the writer in his novel-essay puts together a series of stories and curiosities, reconstructing the birth of modern science. A book in which science becomes literature: starting from a text on the creation of the color Prussian blue, the narrative is divided into stories about the protagonists of twentieth-century science such as Einstein and Heisenberg and texts about the tragedies caused by the use of gas in the Nazi extermination camps.
The novel then ends with a discussion of quantum physics. The Capri setting of the Malapare Prize is also an opportunity for Labatut to talk about and promote his new book entitled “Maniac”a text that will be released in bookstores coinciding with the awarding of the Malaparte Prize.
Benjamin Labatut, Malaparte Prize 2023
The Malaparte Prize
The idea of establishing this literary prize was born from Graziella Lonardi Buontempo, but it is thanks to her niece Gabriella Buontempo and with the support of Michele Pontecorvo Ricciardi, Vice president of Ferrarelle Società Benefit, the sole sponsor of the award, who enthusiastically embraced the project of bringing the recognition back to Capri, which the Malaparte Award continues to have the extraordinary prestige it brings with it.
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