Strega Award, Rosella Postorino leads the 5 finalists

An nearly all-girl Cinquina for the 2023 Strega Prize, with an writer who starts offevolved out as the fave: Rosella Postorino, competing with “I restriction myself to loving you” (Feltrinelli), provided by way of Nicola Lagioia, with 217 votes and achievement conquered five years ago with the novel “The Tasters” with which he gained the Campiello and 7 different prizes and translations into approximately thirty languages. In 2d place Ada D’Adamo with “Come d’aria” (Elliot), provided with the aid of Elena Stancanelli, with 199 votes, a ebook that could already boast the conquest of the Premio Strega Giovani, which became the most voted by a jury of younger people between sixteen and 18 years of 91 secondary colleges in Italy and overseas: the author died last April 1st at the age of fifty five, right away after having discovered that she was most of the dozen finalists, however as in step with the regulation, the paintings remained within the opposition. Lo Strega already boasts two precedents in this sense and both fortunate because they had been posthumous winners: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa with “The Leopard” in 1959 and Maria Teresa Di Leaves with “Passage inside the shade” in 1995.

The 5th of the LXXVII edition is completed with Maria Grazia Calandrone with “Where you didn’t bring me” (Einaudi), with 183 votes, offered via Franco Buffoni; Andrea Canobbio with “The night time crossing” (The deliver of Theseus), with 175 votes, presented via Elisabetta Rasy; Romana Petri with “Stealing the night” (Mondadori), presented by way of Teresa Ciabatti, with 167 votes.

The proclamation occurred this evening at the Roman Theater in Benevento, in the course of an occasion hosted with the aid of Stefano Coletta, who interviewed the twelve applicants in stay streaming on RaiPlay and followed the counting of the votes. Mario Desiati, president of the polling station and winner of the previous edition, proclaimed the 5 finalists.

The election of the prevailing e book will take place on Thursday 6 July on the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia in Rome and can be broadcast stay on Rai Tre television, carried out by Geppi Cucciari.

596 out of 660 citizens (same to 90.3% of those eligible) expressed their preferences, together with character votes and collective votes: as regular, 220 votes solid by using pupils, translators and intellectuals were brought to the ones of the 400 Amici della Domenica Italians and foreigners decided on with the aid of over 30 Italian cultural institutes overseas, 20 strong readers and 20 collective votes expressed by schools, universities and analyzing groups, consisting of the circles set up on the Rome libraries.

These are the votes received by means of the opposite books in the opposition: Igiaba Scego, “Cassandra a Mogadishu” (Bompiani), 158 votes; Silvia Ballestra, “The Sibyl. Life of Joyce Lussu” (Laterza), one hundred forty five votes; Andrea Tarabbia, “The White Continent” (Bollati Boringhieri) 136 votes; Gian Marco Griffi, “Mexico Railways” (Laurana Editore), one hundred thirty five votes; Maddalena Vaglio Tanet, “Returning from the woods” (Marsilio), 117 votes; Carmen Verde, “A minimum sadness” (Neri Pozza), 89 votes; Vincenzo Latronico, “The perfections” (Bompiani), sixty seven votes.

The fifth of the LXXVII edition will meet the public in 16 degrees at some stage in Italy, certainly one of which as always abroad at an Italian Cultural Institute, on 20 June in Berlin. The degrees of the Strega Tour, in Naples, Benevento, Florence, Modena, Salò, Parma and Rimini will be accompanied by means of the ‘Ticket to Read’ camper, with a view to create a new podcast series curated through Margherita Schirmacher and Enrico Orlandi to inform the adventure of the finalists, in collaboration with Chausson Italia.

The Benevento evening turned into organized with the aid of the City of Benevento with the Maria and Goffredo Bellonci Foundation and Liquore Strega, which promote the Award with the contribution of Roma Capitale, the Rome Chamber of Commerce, in collaboration with Bper Banca and Tirreno Power, Rai media companion , technical sponsors IBS.It and Sygla.