A rainbow-colored witch prize. Mario Desiati won with his novel spatriate (Einaudi) the 76th edition of the most prestigious Italian literary competition. The 45-year-old Martina Franca writer wears a black 18th-century women’s collar, long pointed-front white shirt, lgbtqplus pocket square in pocket, blue eyeshadow, mascara and most importantly, a pink fan. it literally beat the competition Claudio Piersanti with Quel cursed Vronskji (Rizzoli) and confirmed with 166 votes, a sidereal distance from second. There has never been a competition before Spatriates that the “Sunday Friends” had long ago voted novel of the year. And so, amid unprecedented and sudden rain, with wet and sodden canapés for Ninfeo’s guests, the TV staging has done nothing but sanctify both what Desiati calls live “the social issue” (thought a little less generally by one writer ) commented expected, ed) unresolved, this is the opportunity for lgbtqplus people to express themselves as it is at work, in family, on the street without risking one’s skin or self-harm (tender memory of the suicidal trans teacher Cloe Bianco); Is thereto the programmatic fluidity of the “queer” novel, where the historical and rigid separation of identity and genre it dissolves and is reflected in Claudio and Francesca, European and pro-European migrants of the last decades of the new century.
“I leave the bottle of Strega schnapps untouched and I will open it in Puglia in memory of the writers of my countryaa Start with Mariateresa Di Let who won the strega and could never withdraw it because he died (Passage in the shade, 1995, Feltrinelli ed) and I want to open it close to Alessandro Leogrande “Desiati already explained in the Final at the Strega with Ternitti (Mondadori) in 2011. Definitely a 2022 for the Mondadori group with the first, second and third step of the podium (Third is Alessandra Carati with And then we are sure) Nothing to do instead, the most original trio of the finalists’ week: Veronica Galletta with Nina sull’Argine (Minimum Fax) is last with 24 votes; Fabio Bacà con Nova (Adelphi), a novel that Emanuele Trevi announces in the final ranking as none other than Nina, is 51, and the Pisan Amerighi with Randagi, Bollati Boringhieri’s world premiere in the final, third from the bottom at 61. In the middle of the ford, Veronica Raimo with Niente di vero (Einaudi), who defined her book live by adding a small stanza nac h Asia made silver: “I didn’t want a session with the analyst, I wanted a session on the toilet..
With Spatriati, Einaudi takes 16 wins, closing in on the flagship Mondadori (24), further relieving Bompiani (10) and returning to victory after the last exceptional performance of Paolo Cognetti’s The Eight Mountains in 2017. Finally, a round of applause for the moderator from the direct Geppi Cucciari, very good in unexpected events (the rain) where she can ridicule the guest with slightly lowered defense, but always on another planet given the self-referential monolithism of contemporary Italian writers living in an hour of directing understood what self-mockery can be.