The women who resisted and all the women who did not look away won the 61st edition of Campiello, where Benedetta Tobagi and her book “The Resistance of Women” (Einaudi) were awarded with 90 votes. “I was overwhelmed by this book like a river. I feel like these women have carried me this far on their shoulders. I would like to dedicate this award above all to the memory of these extraordinary women who fought and fought “I did not return from the other side in a terrible moment,” said Tobagi excitedly, quoting the liberating Towanda cry of the protagonist of the film “Peace Green Tomatoes at the Train Stop” at the 2023 Campiello Prize ceremony at the Gran Teatro La Fenice in Venice on an evening hosted by Francesca Fialdini and Lodo Guenzi. A choral narrative moved by images, the story of women in the partisan resistance is that of people who “had been no one for decades and for the first time had the feeling that they could be someone.” The book works with images, but plays with the theme of die Women’s invisibility was a plague, but during the Resistance it became their superpower. Nobody expected that a woman could be dangerous and courageous.” Second is the story of another extraordinary woman, told by Silvia Ballestra in La Sibilla. Life of Joyce Lussu (Laterza) with 80 votes. Partisan, poet and 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,” Ballestra explained. Marta Cai came in third place with the story of Teresa, who leads a flat, nothing special life, told in her debut book Centomilioni (Einaudi), 57 votes. In the fourth Diary of a Martian Summer (Perrone editore) by Tommaso Pincio, a book about Rome and Flaiano, which is actually a novel “about the past time and what we are experiencing”, 46 voices and in the fifth Filippo Tuena with In Search to Pan (Nottetempo), with 13 votes. Standing ovation in the evening for Edith Bruck, Campiello Lifetime Achievement Award. “Pope Francis, who visited me and whom I saw several times, told me that a drop of good in this black sea can make a big difference. I replied, ‘I made a puddle,'” he said. And a tribute to Michela Murgia, who passed away on August 10, 2023, with pictures of her victory at the Campiello in 2010 with Accabadora. A thousand guests attended the closing evening, which was broadcast live on Rai 5 (on TV channel 23) and 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 represents an expansion of the Veneto Industrial Prize and places an increased focus on young people. “We wanted to dedicate the royal box to them. Cultural growth must be aimed at our youth,” emphasized the President of the Il Campiello Foundation and Confindustria Veneto, Enrico Carraro. In addition to the constellation of Campiello Prizes, this year there was a special mention for Come d’aria (Elliot) by Ada d’Adamo, wished for the third time in a row by the literary jury chaired by Walter Veltroni, and for the Campiello -Debut Nature – Prize of the Venice Gardens Foundation, new competition of 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 came from 288 of 300 voters on the People’s Jury of Anonymous Readers. Two blank cards.
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