Strega Prize, very last may be head to head between Postorino and D’Adamo

Tomorrow nighttime, Thursday 6 July, everything is prepared on the Ninfeo of Villa Giulia in Rome to welcome the very last of the 77th edition of the Strega Prize, promoted with the aid of the Maria and Goffredo Bellonci Foundation and through Liquore Strega. Who will be successful Mario Desiati who won the 2022 version with “Spatriati” (Einaudi)? In all chance, 2023 will convey a winner, for the reason that there are 4 out of 5 authors in the very last. And in line with the rumors that circulate insistently, there is also a terrific preferred: it's miles Rosella Postorino, with “I restrict myself to loving you” (Feltrinelli), who with 217 votes leads the 5, already multi-award-triumphing with the preferred “The Tasters” (Feltrinelli).

In the 5, the presence of Ada D’Adamo stands proud, competing with “Come d’aria” (Elliot), a debutant creator who died at the age of 55 on April 1, the same day she learned she was a candidate for the Strega. And she too could be very probable winner, a lot in order that there are folks that dare to be counted the ultimate vote with Postorino. After all, a posthumous victory on the Strega is nothing new: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa has already received with “Il Gattopardo” in 1959 and Maria Teresa Di Doccia with “Passage inside the colour” in 1985. The five is finished by Maria Grazia Calandrone with “Where you didn’t take me” (Einaudi); Andrea Canobbio with “The night time crossing” (The ship of Theseus); Romana Petri with “Stealing the night” (Mondadori).

The Strega Prize might be presented by means of a jury made up of four hundred Amici della Domenica, as the ancient jury is called, similarly to 220 votes expressed through Italian and overseas pupils, translators and intellectuals selected from over 30 Italian Cultural Institutes abroad, 20 sturdy readers and 20 collective votes expressed with the aid of schools, universities and analyzing groups, consisting of the circles installation at the Libraries of Rome, for a total of 660 entitled. The counting of the ballots, with the seat chaired by means of Mario Desiati, will take region stay on Rai Tre television at 11pm, with Geppi Cucciari accomplishing, and the winner will most likely be recognized after midnight.

The ordinary toast with the winner could be made in the specific and numbered glasses of the Strata series, designed with the aid of the designer Lucia Massari and home made in Murano through the historical Mion glassworks for the Witch Alberti Benevento.

The degrees of the Strega Tour so one can host the winner of the LXXVII version of the Prize are: eight July, Ugo da Como Foundation, Lonato del Garda; nine July, Rome Literature Festival; 11 July, Cervo Bewitches You; July 22, The Possible Book, Vieste; July 30, Marciana Marina; from 25 to 30 August Benevento Città Spettacolo.

Since 2018, a prize has also been provided to the five, the end result of a competition of thoughts prepared by Bper Banca and geared toward all the country Academies of Fine Arts for the creation of a sculpture stimulated through the craft of writing and the significance of selling analyzing. The 5 2023 will acquire a piece created by Giulia Facchin, a scholar of the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, whose title is “Perseverance”: “a tribute to all of the written and thrown away, but still valuable, pages that delivered writers and award-triumphing writers to reap their prestigious milestones.”

The presentation of the very last night passed off today at the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia with the participation of its director Valentino Nizzo, Giovanni Solimine, president of the Maria and Goffredo Bellonci Foundation, Giuseppe D’Avino, president of Strega Alberti Benevento, and Lorena De Vita, of the Bper Banca Sponsorships & Events Office. In the second part of the clicking conference, Stefano Petrocchi, director of the Bellonci Foundation, and Mario Desiati, Premio Strega 2022, president of the polling station for this edition, joined the 5 finalists, which have been announced remaining June 7 at the Roman Theater of Benevento.

The LXXVII edition saw the Strega Tour grow in addition, Solimine said: found in 10 regions, it reached Genoa, Book Capital 2023, and was gift inside the Brescia region, the town with Bergamo Capital of Culture 2023, with the Salo meeting. The cinquina met the general public in 14 degrees throughout Italy, one in all which as usually abroad, at the Italian Cultural Institute in Berlin. To those turned into delivered the assembly in Naples, within the auditorium of the Mann – National Archaeological Museum, for the proclamation of the winner of the Premio Strega Giovani.

The first leg of the excursion changed into observed by Ticket to Read’s RV. On board, the producers Margherita Schirmacher and Enrico Orlandi, who created a series of podcasts to be had on the main platforms describing the adventure of the 5 finalists. The interviews had been carried out inside a Chausson Italia camper which escorted the tour to the stops in Florence, Modena, Salò, Parma, Rimini and Rome.

The Strega Prize has usually sought an exchange with different art bureaucracy. For this cause, Streghe d’autore changed into born in 2016, a challenge via which a number of the great Italian illustrators – Alessandro Baronciani, Emanuele Fior, Riccardo Guasco, Lorenzo Mattotti, Franco Matticchio, Emiliano Ponzi, Olimpia Zagnoli – created the poster of the Award, freely inspired to the design by Mino Maccari on the primary vote casting urn, used from 1947 to 1980. The picture that followed the 2023 Strega Prize changed into created through Elisa Seitzinger: “a witch inspired by the parent of Hecate, girl of magic and spells. Psychopomp divinity, capable of travel freely between the actual international, the gods and the realm of the lifeless, like a literary muse who evokes writers and ladies, including the Madonna del parto by Piero della Francesca, from whose hair emerge the twelve finalist books of the Premio Strega 2023”.

The press conference became additionally an opportunity to talk approximately a year of activities and collaborations to be able to now not stop with the final nighttime of the award. To the usual hobby of enhancing the relationship between the audiovisual zone and literature completed collectively with the Roma Lazio Film Commission (challenge ‘The bewitched photograph – Screens and tales”), is delivered the collaboration with Tirreno Power, an energy producer that celebrates subsequent 12 July, at the Civitavecchia Music Citadel, we are able to have the possibility to talk approximately the transformation and future of the cultural world together with the president of the Bellonci Foundation Giovanni Solimine, even as authors of the Strega Prize – Teresa Ciabatti, Daniele Mencarelli, Edoardo Nesi and Nadia Terranova – will mirror on the phrases Environment, Economy, People, Territory, which are key concepts of the corporation’s annual sustainability file. This experience will become a podcast in 4 episodes, edited by means of Chiara Tagliaferri, dispensed with the aid of storie libero .Fm.