Benedetta Tobagi wins the Campiello Prize with 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 here, on this stage. I would like to dedicate this award first of all to the memory of these extraordinary women who fought and did not look the other way in a terrible moment" she said excitedly at the award ceremony at the Gran Teatro La Fenice in Venice in an evening hosted by Francesca Fialdini and Lodo Guenzi.
In second place was the story of another extraordinary woman told by Silvia Ballestra in "La Sibilla. Vita di Joyce Lussu” (Laterza) which received 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 third place was 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 fourth place is "Diary of a Martian Summer" (Perrone editore) by Tommaso Pincio, a book on Rome and Flaiano which is actually a novel «on the time that has been and on what we are living", 46 votes, and in fifth place Filippo Tuena with "In search of Pan" (Nottetempo), with 13 votes.
Standing ovation during the evening for Edith Bruck, Campiello Lifetime Achievement Award. And tribute to Michela Murgia, who died on 10 August 2023, with images of when she won the Campiello in 2010 with "Accabadora".
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