Prize Mario Rigoni Stern: win Lalonde and Matthew Melchiorre

Mario Rigoni Stern Award winners for Multilingual literature of the Alps

Today June 6 the jury composed by Ilvo Diamanti, Paola Maria Filippi, Mario Isnenghi, Daniele and Paolo Rumiz coordinated by Margaret Detomas met at the Muse, the Science Museum in Trento to Crown the winner of the prize for literature 2017 multilingual Mario Rigoni Stern in the Alps.

Named after the great Italian writer recognition went ex aequo to twovertical war "works. Humans, animals and machines on the front 1915-1918 mountain"by Diego Lions (Einaudi) and"the way of Schenèr"by Matthew Melchiorre (Marsilio) that will share the prize of €10,000.

All prizes and awards will be presented during the ceremony of 17 June (17 hours) at Palazzo Labia in Venice and in that of the 18 June in Asiago (Malga Manazzo Port, 10 hours).
The jury had already identified a shortlist of finalists, ten operas in all, within which he then chose two winners today and has recommended three works.

These are the motivations for the winners and the authors:

WINNERS

The vertical war. Humans, animals and machines on the mountain 1915-1918
Diego Lions
Einaudi

War portrait of Diego Lions is the outcome of a shiny and solid and intense passionate itinerary. Humans, animals and machines on the 1915-1918 mountain, stands out for its originality and variety of approaches to everyday life of war (flora, fauna) in the panorama of works releases on the anniversary. The book of Lions is the exact opposite of occasional and short-lived

The Schenèr
Matthew Melchiorre
Maddox

The Schenèr of Matthew Melchiorre presents a great originality of writing that transforms the historical documentary in a passionate narrative while in strict compliance with the factuality. A mountain pass to the most unknown and its people regain life emerging from the dusty archives. The presence in the author's text, discreet and ironic, ensures a perfect balance of story-telling and realism to a world of metaphor of each

HONORABLE MENTIONS

Le temps suspendu. De Noël à l ' Épiphanie
Alexis Bétemps
Priuli & Verlucca

Le temps suspendu. De la Noël à l ' Épiphanie to Alexis Bétemps stands out for strict filtering ethnographic approach that does not prevent us from recognizing the deep bond and directed with that "suspended time" between Christmas and the Epiphany, remembered and told with the investee attention of the author.

The eight mountains
Paul Chakrabarty
Einaudi

In the eight mountains of Paul Chakrabarty citizen Peter mountaintop environment emerges in the plural through a clear and vibrant narration of the relationship he establishes with his double, Brown mountain.

Snow rock of lead
Andrea Nicolussi Golo
Priuli & Verlucca

Of rock, snow, Andrea Nicolussi lead Golo stands out for a jumpy and sometimes syncopated that creates a close and unusual bond between factory and mountain, between political commitment and tension in rock.