The 2022 Narrative Prize of 29 / o International Literary Prize "Latisana per il Nord-Est"
goes to the Bosnian writer Miljenko Jergović with "
Attack " (Nutrimenti).
"With this book - commented Jergovic at the award ceremony -
I wanted to tell the beginning of the First World War
. Even today we are experiencing a war in Europe: the novel is an attempt to understand the impossible and the relationship between victim and the bomber ".
On the stage of the Odeon Theater in Latisana, on 11 June, in addition to Jergovic, the other two finalists
Alberto Garlini
with "The sun without shadow" (Mondadori) and
Mariapia Veladiano
with "Now that you are here" (Guanda) and also
Matteo Bussola
who , with Time to go home (Einaudi), was awarded the Coop Alleanza 3.0 Territory Award, chosen by the seven members of the territorial jury.
Leading the stories, talks and interviews on stage, two writers and radio hosts of Fahrenheit on Rai Radio 3, Graziano Graziani and Loredana Lipperini.
Born in Sarajevo in 1966, Jergović is a writer, journalist and screenwriter and is considered one of the most important voices in Balkan fiction.
"Jergovic's novel tells
of the Sarajevo murder of 1914
not so much as a historical reconstruction of the event that triggered the First World War, but through the eyes, doubts and anxieties of ordinary people - explains Cristina Benussi, president of the technical jury -.
Jergović uses a
multiplicity of narrative registers
capable, starting from the past, of representing aporias, destinies and anxieties of our time. "The" Latisana per il Nord-Est "Prize, which gives voice to the literary production of the border area formed by Triveneto and neighboring countries, it is sponsored, among others, by the Ministry of Culture.