The Bridge Award goes to “Come d’aria” by Ada D’Adamo and “Marckalada” by Paolo Chiesa

The winners of the 2023 VIII Edition of the Premio The Bridge which will be delivered to Rome on 5 December. For Italian fiction, it is about There’s D’Adamoalready winner of the Strega con Come d’aria, Elliot. For non-fiction, Paolo Chiesa, Markalada. When America had another name, The third. The American winners are Isabella Hammad for fiction with Enter Ghost, Grove Atlantic e Alison Cornish for non-fiction with Believing in Dante: Truth in fictionCambridge University Press

The four winning books will be proclaimed in Rome on 5 December 2023 at 5.30 pm in the Awards Ceremony which will be held in the headquarters of the Center for American Studies in Via Michelangelo Caetani, 32.
The Prize consists of a contribution to the costs of translating the four books that are proclaimed winners annually from Italian into English and vice versa. In this way we intend to promote knowledge and encourage the reading of some of the best and most recent publications of both fiction and non-fiction from the two countries, as well as the diffusion of the Italian language in particular by encouraging its circulation in the American publishing and university world.
The Bridge is created and edited by Maria Ida Gaeta who has organized it since its inception with the collaboration of Maria Gliozzi. The Italian Cultural Institute of New York and the Unified Italian Writers’ Federation (FUIS) are currently the main and fundamental supporters of the Prize and it also makes use of the precious collaboration of the American Academy in Rome, the Center for American Studies of Rome and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation.
In April 2024 in New York the 2 Italian winners, or their representatives, and the 2 American winners will be the protagonists of a meeting dedicated to the Award as part of the Multipli Forti Festival promoted by the Italian Cultural Institute of New York in collaboration with Fuis and with the artistic direction of Maria Ida Gaeta. On this occasion, the nominations for The Bridge Award for the year 2024 will also be announced.