Mario Desiati triumphs at the 'Premio Strega 2022', in an edition that will remain in the history of the most coveted Italian literary recognition for being the first with 7 authors in the final.
Arrived with his girlfriend at the Nymphaeum of Villa Giulia, in Rome, shortly after 9 pm, with a Valentino pinstripe suit, a cream silk shirt, a fetish collar around the neck that recalls that of Damiano dei Maneskin, eyes painted with kajal and Converse shoes rainbow like the mask, Desiati immediately shone for originality on the evening of the proclamation, July 7, suddenly wet with rain.
In connection from home, Veronica Galletta, due to Covid while Fabio Bacà, finally negative to the swab, managed to come to a contingent Nymphaeum, but which seems almost back to normal.
The live broadcast on Rai3 started at 11 pm under a sudden but brief downpour, with Geppi Cucciari under the umbrella held by Emanuele Trevi, president of the polling station, and a stampede of the guests under the arcades of the Nymphaeum.
Winner announced, super favorite since the start of the competition, Desiati, with 166 votes for his 'Spatriati' (Einaudi), defeated everyone in his second exciting return to the final after that of 2011 with Ternitti (Mondadori).
His irregular characters, in search of a future and an identity, such as Francesco Veleno (whom we had already met in 'The Book of Forbidden Love') and Claudia Fanelli, protagonists of this fluid story, set between Puglia and Berlin , where the word homeland often returns, they have conquered audiences and critics alike.
He is insecure, she is rebellious, they have been deeply friends since high school in Martina Franca and will arrive on the big screen thanks to Dude, a young Milanese production company that bought the rights to the novel presented to the Strega by Alessandro Piperno.
'Spatriati' is a word from the Martinese dialect which means, in fact, irregular.
"It is a seed within all of us" explains Desiati, 45 years old from Martina Franca.
In second place, with a wide gap, Claudio Piersanti who had 90 votes for his 'Quel cursed Vronskij' (Rizzoli) in which he tells the story of a typographer, Giovanni, who does not suddenly give up goodbye, in a note , of his wife Giulia, with whom he has been together since adolescence.
And in the third Alessandra Carati, with a very short flowered dress in gray black tones, in Japanese style who had 83 votes for 'And then we will be safe' (Mondadori) with Aida, a Bosnian refugee who escapes from the war with her family at the age of six. Italy.
Fabio Baca 'was ex aequo in the seven finalist (also in the five of the Campiello Prize 2022) who won the sixth place with 51 votes for' Nova '(Adelphi), a story of violence and knowledge of
In fourth place Veronica Raimo, in sober total black, already winner of the 2022 Strega Giovani Award with 'Niente di vero' that goes in unpredictable directions with a lot of irony, who had 62 votes and is the second Einaudi title in the race, for a total of four titles of the Mondadori Group.
Fifth by a whisker Marco Amerighi in a recycled designer dress, a little anxious by nature who says: "I can't wait to go downstairs for a cocktail".
His Randagi (Bollati Boringhieri) in which he gives voice to a generation displaced by the awareness of experiencing degrowth and to the story of a family where sooner or later all the males disappear, had 61 votes.
And seventh Veronica Galletta with 'Nina sull'argine' (minimum fax), a title rescued by an independent publisher.
Tribute to Raffaele La Capria, who died on June 26, 2022, protagonist of a great edition of the Prize, that of 1961 which he won with 'Ferito a morte' that the director and writer Roberto Andò announced that he wanted to bring to the theater in an adaptation with Emanuele Trevi.
"It is a novel that immediately became a classic, very suitable for the theater," said Andò.
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