Friday 21/7/2017 at 17:30
Books
55 Campiello literary prize on the Asiago plateau, meeting with the finalists of 2017-21 July 2017
Friday, July 21, 2017 at 17.30 hours at the central stage of Piazza Risorgimento II of Asiago, held the meeting with the five finalist authors of the 55th Edition of the Campiello literary prize.
The event is organized in collaboration with the library Giunti al Punto di Asiago and has become a traditional event very plateau following the summer.
The Campiello is a literary prize, established in 1962 by the will of industrialists from the Veneto, which is awarded to works of Italian fiction: it is considered among the most prestigious in Italy and among the most theimportant visitor in Italian publishing panorama, an important channel with which it contributes to the promotion of Italian fiction.
The books shortlisted this year for the coveted literary award have already been selected, among a shortlist of several editorial proposals, the Jury of three hundred, so called because it consists of three hundred readers of different age, culture, profession and social position .
The 5 FINALISTS of PREMIO CAMPIELLO 2017 in ASIAGO
The inner city of Mauro Covacich (the ship of Theseus)
Mauro Covacich was born in Trieste in 1965. He wrote several books of fiction, including: anomalies (Knopf 1998, Bompiani 2015), love against (2001, Einaudi 2009), at breakneck speed (Knopf 2003, Einaudi 2005), Fiona (Einaudi 2005 and 2011), Trieste topsy-turvy (Yale University Press 2006), before disappearing (Einaudi 2008 and 2010), on your behalf (Einaudi 2011), experiment (Einaudi 2013), bride (Bompiani 2014).
THE INNER CITY
"The child is directed to the Borgo Teresiano, near the Church with Blue Dome, near the Canal, close to the Ponterosso stalls. Do you know where she is. In seven years moves into town like a celestial migratory routes. Doesn't know street names, following emotional references, sometimes with geometric shapes, the colours of signboards, light leaks down to the marina, the volumes of solids and voids between the buildings, the treetops. Has an internal compass, the foolproof magnetism of a bird grew up down the street. "
is the April 4, 1945. That child is carrying a Chair in the rubble of the city liberated from Nazi-fascists and is directed to the Allied command, where awaits his father – from the last name vaguely suspect, Covacich – subjected to questioning. And that Chair could clear him.
Always Trieste, August 5, 1972. Black September terrorists blew up two oil tanks. A baby, Mauro Covacich, between the legs of his father (the child who drew a chair twenty years earlier in Trieste freed), contemplating the columns of smoke from the karst hills above the city, asks: "Daddy, semo in war?"
Mauro Covacich returns to his Trieste, with a book-paced, adventurous novel of their own training, written with the surgical precision of an analyst at war and motivated by curiosity to a reporter. The inner city is the heart of a writer from Trieste, incurably cartography; is the accomplished maze of a city, a man, the story, the reader travels with the same sense of restless wonder that accompanied that child of 1945 and 1972; a maze of detours and unexpected returns, from which it comes up with the desire to return.
The arminuta of Donatella Di Pietrantonio (Einaudi)
Donatella Di Pietrantonio lives in Penne, Abruzzo, where he works as a pediatric dentist. He made his debut with the novel my mother is a river (Elliot Award 2011, Tropea). With Bella mia (Elliot 2014) participated in the Premio Strega. For Einaudi published the Arminuta (2017).
THE ARMINUTA
"I was the Arminuta, the returned. I spoke another language and I didn't know more who belong. The word mom had nested in my throat like a toad. Today really don't know who would be a mother. I miss how may lack health, shelter, a certainty. "
– But your mom how much? – asked me discouraged. – I have two. One is your mother.
There are novels that touch deep chords as well, originating, which seem to call us by name. that's what happens with The Arminuta from the first page, when the protagonist, with a suitcase and a bag of shoes in the other, sounds strange to a port. To open them, his sister Adriana, eyes wrinkled, braids unmade: they've never seen before. So begins this story: a young girl and disruptive enchantress from day to day loses everything – a comfortable home, her friends more beloveds, unconditional affection of parents. Or rather, those who believed his parents. For "the Arminuta" (the return), as they call the companions, begins a new and very different life. The House is small, dark, there are brothers everywhere and little food on the table. But there's Adriana, who shares the bed with her. And there is Vincenzo, who looks as if it were already a woman. And in that look restless, knowing, she can maybe get lost to find yourself. Accepting a double desertion is possible only by returning to the source to themselves. Donatella Di Pietrantonio knows the words to say, and addresses the issue of motherhood, responsibility and care, from an original perspective and with a rare expressive intensity. Just listen to his land, that little known, rough and rugged Abruzzi, who suddenly lights up with the reflection of the sea.
Something about Lehman by Stefano Massini (Knopf)
Stefano Massini (1975) is most represented Italian writer for several years on stages around the world. He won seven awards of Italy, Germany and Spain between France, criticism. In 2015 going toe-to-toe in Giorgio Strehler and Luca Ronconi as Artistic Director of the Piccolo Teatro di Milano, Teatro in Europe. The show adapted from something about Lehman, his "Lehman Trilogy ' in Italy last Ronconi, is translated into 15 languages, and will be directed by Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes for the Royal National in London
SOMETHING ABOUT LEHMAN
This incredible story begins on an American port, with a young German Jewish immigrant who breathes in deeply the enthusiasm of the landing. And from this tiny seed that will grow the big tree of a family and economic saga really capable of changing the world. Keen and rational, Henry Lehman (not surprisingly nicknamed "Head") moved to the deep South of the United States, where he opened a tiny store of fabrics. But the cotton of the slaves is only the first test of the new Lehman Brothers commercial cunning (because in the meantime Henry became reach by two younger brothers Emanuel and Mayer, respectively called "Arm" and "potato"). In a succession of events, the three brothers collect irritating resounding successes and missteps while the large magnet in New York attracts them into its vortex. Meanwhile, at the old cotton were superseded on coffee, sugar, coal, and especially the new frontier of a railway industry all to be funded. And this exciting stage of the second book, entitled "fathers and sons", focused on the incredible rise to power of the ice age Philip Lehman, surrounded by cousins Sigmund, Dreidel, Herbert and Arthur. Their parallel lives make up a mosaic of humanity, assorted, contradictory, where the anguish of dreams goes hand in hand with a relentless race to keep pace on Wall Street. These are the years of intoxication, destined to break into thunderous collapse of 1929, when the fate of a system to collapse will be entrusted to the fragile hands of Bobbie Lehman, symbol of a world precariously, hostage of her own fashions and in fact unable to give itself a secure future. Stefano Massini wrote an amazing piece, able to travel through time, weaving the private story of a family and the universal Church of men. Unsettling and Fireworks, the author creates a narrative monumental building, in which there is no room for traditional differences between genres: the novel blends the wise, the epic theater, with continuous raids in movies, songs, and even in mathematical formulas and in comic books. All this makes something about Lehman a book like no other, with a completely new shape, that challenging in a melee 19th-and 20th-century art opens a Gash on the future.
The wild girl of Laura Pugno (Marsilio)
Laura Pugno, was born in Rome. He published a collection of short stories, Sleepwalking (Sajjan 2002), and four novels: Sirens (Einaudi 2007), when thou COMEST (minimum fax 2009), Antarctica (minimum fax 2011), hunting (Ponte alle Grazie 2012). Poetry: the color gold (2007), the mind landscape (2010 and Perrone) and white (Nottetempo 2016); It is also included in the anthology einaudiana New Italian poets 6 (2012). Italian Institute of culture in Madrid today directs.
THE WILD GIRL
«Tessa opened the door on the darkness of the forest»: so begins the wild girl, and really the fifth novel by Laura Pugno is all a wide open ports on the darkness: the darkness of the Woods; on the dark family drama Held-the mother alienated after the disappearance of the adopted daughter Dasha and the incident in which Nina, her twin sister, lives in a vegetative state; on the darkness of Nicholas Varriale, whose father generous and enthusiastic-partner of Held in business with experimental nature reserve Stellaria-threw themselves drunk from the balcony; on the dark, finally, the protagonist Tessa, biologist, who lives in a shipping container on the edge of the reserve by conducting observations and studies: a woman who now lives in solitude "as another body." You will touch the fate randomly find Dasha, lived years in the Woods and now completely savage. Questions us, this novel can be described as a history of revenant, or the tale of a tangle of life observed with a compassion without tears. Questions us on what is-around us, in us-what we call "nature"; the boundaries between the human and the animal; the sense of family ties the result of choices, or appropriate, and not of the flesh. Recovering in new and surprising some themes of his first novel, mermaids, Laura Pugno to guide us with sure footing and with a writing essential in exploring an imagined powerful, fascinating, and perhaps prophetic
The night my voice of Noor Saad (Einaudi)
Noor Saad was born in Reggio Emilia in 1971, lives in Bologna. Posted subtle signs and clandestine (Diabasis 2008). For Einaudi Stile Libero is released in 2012 fiction Paolo Volponi, winner of the first Violation, in 2014 and 2017 regular love the night my voice.
THE NIGHT MY VOICE
A young woman has lost the use of his legs after an accident. Inhabits a body that doesn't belong to you anymore and feels exiled from the territory of the healthy. Then he meets the Donnagatto, and his way of looking at herself, and others, changes.
The first thing that comes to Joan's voice: argentina, decisive, sensual. Makes me think of someone you advance on daily miseries like a feline. That's why, from the start, the Narrator the baptizes Donnagatto, although Jeanne is paralyzed, just like her. Unlike her, however, claims the right to wish still, sif giving the imperfection of the world. The Donnagatto is hiding a secret, and perhaps has found a person whose confess, delivering them their story. A story where the boundary is only apparent between sentencing and grace.
"it is for freedom that you should mention when talking about bodies. But how do you, if we don't have it we choose not even at birth? Our bodies are already past, legacy given by those who have raised and preceded in Combinatorial gene tyranny. "
the winner of the Premio Campiello-Opera Prima
A good place to stay by Frances Manfredi (the ship of Theseus)
Frances Manfredi was born in Reggio Emilia in 1988 and lives in Torino. Published reports about "Linus» and the «Corriere della Sera». It is one of the authors of 6Bianca, theatrical series in six episodes created by Stephen Amidon and produced by Teatro Stabile di Torino in 2015. Teaches narration at Holden school. A good place to stay is her first book.
A GOOD PLACE TO STAY
A wood, an old house in the mountains, the pool of a condominium. A little girl who swims, a girl who returns home, a father who disappears, another one who finds peace in the silence of a damp cellar. And then, in the dust of moments that make up normal days, the network of feelings, dreams, discoveries that illuminate and wound, a memory that has always saved, but incurably alone.
It is clear that writing with grace and Frances Manfredi tells the protagonists of these eleven stories, wrapped in the normality of their lives, but getting caught on the principle of a threshold from which you can watch at their fragility and their anxieties, as a place from which you do not need to flee, a good place to stay.
This is the first book by Frances Manfredi, one of the most beautiful and already recognized abroad of the new Italian fiction.
The 55th Edition of the Premio Campiello is realized under the patronage of the President of the Republic and with the support of the Ministry of cultural heritage and activities; receives the patronage and support of the Veneto region and is made possible thanks to: human, Eni, Allianz Group SaVe, Verona Fiere, Anthea, Geox, Calearo Antenne, Adacta Studio Associato, SUM. In collaboration with MUVE – Fondazione Musei Civici Venezia, Grafiche Antiga, Prodir and Rai.
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