Sandro Veronesi, 'The hummingbird'? 'My best friend'

(by Mauretta Capuano) (ANSA) - ROME, JULY 03 - Sandro Veronesi has conquered the record, achieved so far only by Paolo Volponi, of winning two Strega Awards, in 2006 with 'Calm chaos' and 14 years later, with 'The hummingbird' awarded with 200 votes on 2 July, in a final evening marked by the pandemic, without a large public, masks and distances at the Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia, in Rome. But the trail of positive things that brought this lucky novel, which sold over 100,000 copies, goes far beyond that.
    "Isn't it exceptional that Teseo's ship, until last year, little publishing house and now no longer, wins the Witch after less than five years of life? It is to Umberto Eco that we have to say thanks, because he knew he didn't have much time ahead as when he founded it and today he could have seen all this, "he says to ANSA Veronesi the day after the victory in which he does not want to stop on his two Witch Awards. "At the Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia there were my two literary fathers: PaoloRepetti who when he was in Theoria published my first book and Gian Arturo Ferrari who asked me to move to Mondadori. Then there was Fandango Libri, founded 20 years ago in my garage and La Nave di Teseo that I helped found. And there was a book, 'Febbre' by Jonathan Bazzi, which I quote in 'The Hummingbird'. It was an experience that I will have to reflect on with my analyst "explains Veronesi .
    But how much of Veronesi is in Marco Carrera? "There is the rebirth year, 1959. The very different thing from me is its nature as a book, it is one that remains, that keeps it up. I am a boy from the 70s when the myth was change. Carrera is my opposite and I feel attraction for him, he made me like him in his company. I would have loved to have met someone, he would have been my best friend. I would have taught him to move a bit and he would have helped me to have a little judgment "he explains the author of the novel who will perhaps have a cinematographic transposition, as had happened for 'Caoscalmo', which has become a film with Nanni Moretti. "There is already an option to make a movie, but I can't put my mouth on it. Moravia told me that you should never collaborate on the script," Veronesi says. (HANDLE).