The writer Donatella Di Pietrantonio won last Thursday night (4) the Strega Award, Italy's main literary competition, with the book “L'età fragile” (“The fragile age”, in free translation).
The author received 189 votes and surpassed Dario Voltolini, with “Invernale” (“Winter), which had 143.
The other finalists were “Chi dice e chi tace” (“Who speaks and who is silent”), by Chiara Valerio, with 138 votes; “Aggiustare l'universo” (“Adjust the universe”), by Raffaella Romagnolo, with 83; “Romanzo senza umani” (“Romance without humans”), by Paolo Di Paolo, with 66; and “Autobiogrammatica” (“Autobiogrammatics”), by Tommaso Giartosio, with 25.
Di Pietrantonio, 62, promised to use her “written and oral voice in defense of the rights for which a generation of women fought so hard and which today are not taken for granted.”
In “L'età fragile”, the writer recalls a crime that occurred in 1997, on Monte Morrone, where two girls were killed while going on a mountain excursion.
The book breaks stereotypes about safety in small provincial towns and addresses the ever-current topic of gender-based violence. The work had already won the Strega Giovani Prize, awarded by a jury made up of teenagers aged 16 to 18, at the beginning of June. (HANDLE)
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