The American Karen Russell, with the novel 'I donatori di sonno' (Edizioni Sur, translation by Martina Testa), is the winner of the 13th edition of the PremioLattes Grinzane, the international recognition entitled to Mario Lattes and promoted by the Bottari Lattes Foundation. The proclamation today at the Teatro Sociale Busca in Alba (Cuneo). The victory was determined by the votes of 400 students of 25 high school juries throughout Italy, plus one in Paris, after the selection of the 5finalists by a technical jury.
In the novel Karen Russell - reads the motivation of the technical jury - "transforms insomnia itself into a mass nightmare: the mysterious epidemic that prevents you from sleeping weakens mind and body until death. It is the apocalypse, white. There are some donors, who with their sleep hydrate the minds of the sick, but risk infecting them with nightmares. Mankind is at risk of extinction. The only hope is the children, pure sleep. To discover it is the narrator of the novel, who lost his sister, among the first victims of the pandemic".
The other finalists of this edition were Una nottedi Giosuè Calaciura (Sellerio), Melancolia by Mircea Cărtărescu (La Nave di Teseo, translation by Bruno Mazzoni), Avere tutto by Marco Missiroli (Einaudi) and Stupore by Zeruya Shalev (Feltrinelli, translation by Elena Loewenthal).
Jonathan Safran Foer, published in Italy by Guanda, is instead the winner of the Lattes Grinzane Special Prize, awarded every year to "an internationally renowned author who over time has received a shared appreciation of critics and the public. value of time and the technological society in which we live"
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