THE predictions were right: with 194 votes The anniversary (Feltrinelli) by Andrea Bajani He won the LXXIX edition of the Strega Prize. The writer, also winner of the Strega Giovani Prize, had already participated in 2021 with The book of houses (Feltrinelli) ranking fifth.
There was no lack of a note of disappointment on the faces of those who hoped that the Autofuration of Nadia Terranova on the imprisonment of the great -grandmother at the Mandalari Psychiatric Instituteor the novel by Elisabetta Rasyset in the 1950s in an abundant and melancholy Naples, ranked second.
Andrea Bajani wins the Witch 2025 Prize. Credits: Musa
The jury was chaired by Donatella di Pietrantonio, winner of the 2024 edition. The 400 friends of Sunday voted, to which are added 245 voters from abroad, 25 collective votes from schools, universities and reading clubs of the libraries of Rome, 30 votes of strong readers chosen in the world of entrepreneurship and professions.
Witch award 2025: the other books in the race
133 votes for Elisabetta Rasy, author of Lost this sea is (Rizzoli) which conquers second place; The things I know of you (Guanda) of Nadia Terranova, It wins third place with 117 votes; Fourth place is placed I close the door and scream (Mondadori) by Paolo Nori with 103 votes; The fifth and last place goes to the naughty Michele Ruol with Inventory of what remains after the forest burns (Terrarossa) which gets 99 votes.
From left: Nadia Terranova, Paolo Nori, Pino Strabioli, Michele Ruol, Andrea Bajani, Elisabetta Rasy. Credits: Musa
Families and parents parents children the most treated themes
The cinquina books of the Witch 2025 prize are united by the theme of family relationships and the relationship of parents and children. Families and generational relationships are confirmed among the topics that capture the attention of writers, writers and public most, probably for the ability to tell our society in a unprecedented way, even in its most uncomfortable and less unknown aspects.
Anna Foglietta, Filippo Timi and the memory of Pier Paolo Pasolini
Mondano event, literary event with one foot in the almost octogenarian tradition and the gaze turned to the future: There are many souls of the most prestigious literary prize of the year that took place, as usual, to the Nymphaeum of Villa Giulia, lucid for the occasion and crumbled as never before. Pino Strabioli, on management, dialogue with the five finalist authors, whose incipit of the novels were read by an exceptional actor: Filippo Timi. The interpretation, accompanied by the music of Roberto Angelini and Rodrigo d’Erasmo, gave birth to an exciting moment of fusion of artistic genres, as is in the spirit of the prize that has been celebrating the great Italian literature for almost eighty years. A tribute to Pier Paolo Pasolini could not be missing, of which this year the fiftieth year of the disappearance occurs. Anna Foglietta read a monologue dedicated to him who ended with an appeal to free Palestine. The writer was also remembered with the projection of repertoire images.
The art of being witches
The Strega Prize has always dialogue with other forms of art and since 2018 award award to the finalists, the result of a Competition of ideas organized by Bper Banca and aimed at all academies of fine arts state for the realization of a sculpture that best represents the profession of writing and the importance of reading. The winning work of this year is titled Essenceto realize it was Giandomenico will bestudent of the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice who will receive a scholarship of 1,500 euros as a prize.
The winning sculpture of the Strega Bper Art Award
Bodies and genre: the MP5 manifesto
The manifesto of this year, the tenth of the Author’s witches series, is entrusted to MP5, whose critical and committed vision illuminates reality. In recent years, the artist has dedicated himself to the issues relating to the bodies and the genre, of which the manifesto is an expression: literature becomes a voice and body, the witch claims space and self -determination in an enchanted sabbast where bodies and words intertwine and shake. Illuminated by an eclipse, the metaphor comes to life and echoes as a song of revolt., Recites the explanation of the work.
The manifesto of the 79th edition of the Strega Prize, signed by MP5
The stages of the Strega Tour
It does not end here. For Andrea Bajani the Strega Tour begins, a journey to discover some of the main Italian locations and literary events: we start on July 5 with a deer stop, the Ligurian village of the most beautiful in Italy, on July 6th will be the turn of Lonato del Garda, on 9 July of the Festival delle Literatti in Rome, on July 20 the Festival of the Villasimius Marina, on July 26 Vieste (the book possible). The tour will continue throughout the month of August and then resumed and end in autumn.
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