There is a Sardinian author on the podium of the winners of the Emily Dickinson International Literary Award: the Cagliari writer and poet Carmen Salis ranked second in the section dedicated to the engineer Ruggiero Cenere. The writer, from Capoterre by adoption, was competing with "Gianna, she was my sister". With the same work, Salis also won second place in the literary competition dedicated to the memory of the journalist of the television program "Le iene" Nadia Toffa: last year, however, thanks to the poetry collection "Cose I wrote without title", had triumphed at the seventh edition of the Piersanti Mattarella literary-journalistic award. “I am very happy with this new recognition – says Carmen Salis -, talking about Gianna beyond regional borders is always very exciting, I wrote this book to remember her story, and her life lived fighting schizophrenia. Telling my sister's story, which is the same as the story of many psychiatric patients, people who we all have a duty to protect and make feel part of society, was a privilege."

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