The women who resisted and all the women who did not look the other way won the 61st edition of Campiello which awarded Benedetta Tobagi and her book The resistance of women (Einaudi) with 90 votes. “I was overwhelmed by this book like a river. I have the feeling that these women carried me on their shoulders up here, to this stage. I would like to dedicate this award first of all to the memory of these extraordinary women who fought and did not turn back from the other side in a terrible moment” said Tobagi, very excited, quoting the liberating Towanda cry of the protagonist of the film Fried Green Tomatoes at the Train Stop, at the awarding of the 2023 Campiello Prize at the Gran Teatro La Fenice in Venice in an evening hosted by Francesca Fialdini and Lodo Guenzi. A choral narrative that was moved by images, the story of women in the partisan resistance is that of people who “had been nobody for decades and who for the first time feel they could be someone. The book works on images but plays on the theme of invisibility of women, it was a plague but it became their superpower during the resistance. No one expected that a woman could be dangerous, courageous.” In second place is the story of another extraordinary woman told by Silvia Ballestra in La Sibilla. Life of Joyce Lussu (Laterza) which had 80 votes. Partisan, poet, writer who combined thought and action Lussu was “a very important woman for the history of our country, for the fight for the rights of women and the oppressed” explained Ballestra. In her third place is Marta Cai with the story of Teresa who leads a flat life, not at all special, told in her debut book Centomilioni (Einaudi), 57 votes. In the fourth Diary of a Martian Summer (Perrone editore) by Tommaso Pincio, a book on Rome and Flaiano which is actually a novel “about the time that has been and what we are experiencing”, 46 votes and in the fifth Filippo Tuena with In Search of Pan (Nottetempo), with 13 votes. Standing ovation during the evening for Edith Bruck, Campiello Lifetime Achievement Award. “Pope Francis who came to visit me and I saw him several times told me a drop of good in this black sea can do a lot. I replied ‘I made a puddle'” she said. And tribute to Michela Murgia, who died on 10 August 2023, with images of when she won the Campiello in 2010 with Accabadora. A thousand guests attended the final evening, broadcast live on Rai 5 (on TV channel 23) and in streaming on the Rai Play platform. In the audience the president of the Veneto Region Luca Zaia, the mayor of Venice Luigi Brugnaro and many representatives of the publishing world. The 61st edition marks an expansion of the Veneto industrialists’ award and focuses increasingly on young people. “We wanted to dedicate the royal box to them. Cultural growth must be aimed at our young people” as underlined by the president of the Il Campiello Foundation and Confindustria Veneto Enrico Carraro. In addition to the constellation of Campiello awards, this year there was a special mention for Come d’aria (Elliot) by Ada d’Adamo, desired by the Literary Jury chaired for the third consecutive year by Walter Veltroni and the Campiello debut Nature – Venice Gardens Foundation Award, new competition promoted by the Il Campiello Foundation – Confindustria Veneto in collaboration with the Venice Gardens Foundation, won by Raffaella Romagnolo with Il cedro del cielo (Aboca Edizioni). The votes cast were 288 out of 300 voters of the Popular Jury of Readers Anonymous. Two blank cards.
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2023-09-17 13:39:00
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