TOThe Roman theater of Benevento Books have been announced who will participate in the final phase of the Strega 2025 award. The anniversary by Andrea Bajani (Feltrinelli, proposed by Emanuele Trevi), Proclaimed yesterday winner of the Strega Giovani Prize, he leads the Cinquina with 280 votes.
Following What I know of you by Nadia Terranova (Guanda, proposed by Salvatore Silvano Nigro) who ranks to Second place with 226 votes.
To win the third and fourth place Elisabetta Rasy, with Lost this sea is (Rizzoli, proposed by Giorgio Ficara), with 205 votes and Michele Ruol with Inventory of what remains after the forest burns (Terrarossa, proposed by Walter Veltroni), 180 votes in ex aequo with Michele Ruol, author of I close the door and scream (Mondadori, proposed by Giuseppe Antonelli), 180 votes.
Witch 2025: the finalist cinquina and the plots of the books
Andrea Bajani with 280 votes for the Anniversary (Feltrinelli), leads La Cinquina of the Witch 2025 Award voted on the evening of June 4 at the Roman theater in Benevento. In second place Nadia Terranova with what I know of you (Guanda), 226 votes and to the third Elisabetta Rasy with lost is this sea (Rizzoli), 205 votes. Former aequo random and fifth place for Paolo Nori, with the door and scream (Mondadori) and Michele Ruol with inventory of what remains after the forest burns (Terrarossa), both 180 votes. ANSA / Handout Strega Prize
The anniversary by Andrea Bajani (Feltrinelli)
Ten years after having left home, slamming the door, the protagonist of this novel thinks back to the complicated relationship with the mother, a succubus woman of her husband, and the father, an authoritarian man from whom to escape to be reborn. The result is a poignant and shiny story about the meaning of becoming adults and freeing itself from asphyxiating relationships that isolate from the world.
“The anniversary” by Andrea Bajani, Feltrinelli128 pages, € 15.20
Lost this sea is by Elisabetta Rasy (Rizzoli)
In a Naples devastated by the war, a girl is taken away, torn from her father’s affection. Time passes but she can’t forget it. The death of Raffale La Capria re -emerges in memory the memory of the parent, The same age of the writer. From here starts a journey back in time, through an Italy that is not always welcoming, especially for women who do not want to submit to female stereotypes.
“Lost is this sea” by Elisabetta Rasy, Rizzoli240 pages, 18 €
What I know of you by Nadia Terranova (Guanda)
With the birth of her daughter, the author understands that there is one thing that will no longer be able to do: crazy. Thus began a journey on the emotional and physical traces that his great -grandmother, Venera, has left in this world surviving the oblivion of family mythology. After losing a daughter, Venera spends 11 days at the Lorenzo Mandalari psychiatric hospital in Messina. It is 1928 and Venera already has two daughters but a dark and incomprehensible evil poles his days. Retracing the history of her ancestor is a cathartic search for personal and social meaning for the author, because often asylums contain what you don’t want to see but that concerns everyone.
“What I know of you” by Nadia Terranova, Glove272 pages, 19 €
Inventory of what remains after the forest burns by Michele Ruol (Terrarossa)
How can you survive two children’s death? The death of a child is the most painful experience that a person can experience, a loss against nature. Yet it is possible to start again, finding the strength to go without denying citizenship to the past, which in this brilliant debut novel acquires the contours of the objects of the house where the boys lived.
“Inventory of what remains after the forest burns” by Michele Ruol, Terrarossa208 pages, 16 €
I close the door and scream by Paolo Nori (Mondadori)
The author describes the universe of Raffaello Baldini, the greatest poet of the twentieth century that many have read but few know who he really is. He meets Baldini’s family, his friends, but more than digging in the life of this character who has always remained far from the limelight, Nori reports long excerpts of his texts. Telling his life and his way of writing, the author tells himself.
I close the door and scream by Giuseppe Antonelli, Mondadori204 pages, 19 €
Simon & The Stars and the Toto Strega: astrology is a narrative machine
The astrologer Simon & the Stars illuminated the evening, explaining how deep the relationship that binds astrology and the story and defining it Zodiac as a perfect narrative machine. The zodiac signs are also the protagonists of the Toto Strega, thanks to the illustrator and cartoonist MP5 who in the manifesto has attributed a mark on each book of the dozen. In the next few days the winners of this third edition will be announced which recorded about 1,000 online games.
The Strega Tour and the final evening of 3 July
The finalists will meet the public in 18 stages, one of which abroad that will take place on June 17, at the Italian Cultural Institute in Warsaw. Curious and supporters of the prize will be able to meet the cinquina from Abracbook, The Silent Book Party organized by the Holden school, On the eve of the final evening, in the garden of the Maxxi museum in Rome.
The assignment of the literary prize will take place on July 3, as usual in the garden of the Etruscan National Museum of Villa Giulia in Rome. The event will be broadcast on a live television on Rai 3 with the conduct of Pino Strabioli.
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