Waiting for Mario Rigoni Stern Award for Multilingual literature of the Alps

Waiting for the premio Mario Rigoni Stern, dedicated to the renowned writer of Asiago, multilingual literature of the Alps

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Some interviews may not be published, the mountain and the death impose silence: this perhaps would say Mario Rigoni Stern and his wife Anna not to talk of her husband is definitely in line with this thinking. You, Madam austere and reserved, not lost in chatter: has always preferred to remain in the shadows wisely, claiming simply choosing Mario to tell, don't forget what, despite himself, he had been a witness.

But today, the Premio Mario Rigoni Stern for Multilingual literature of France is now in its Fourth Edition (expected for the March 29 the verdict of the jury meeting in Riva del Garda for the narrative section), I wonder what the true legacy that Mario has left us. Unfortunately I haven't had time to go to him in person: I went to visit him only once and I was really too young to give voice to the many, confusing questions that I wanted him.

So, these days, lying to chat with his son Alberic, impossible not to ask and not ask what is left of a Figure definitely crucial to our lands and our training. "Definitely – recalled the son- schoolsremain, the libraries that he continue to be titled"-as shown by the cases of Primary School Mario Rigoni Stern of Montecchio Precalcino (Vi) or the Biblioteca civica Mario Rigoni Stern of Bellusco (MB)-sign that Mario has left trace in the collective consciousness of our communities through its ceaseless pilgrimage in schools, in order to try to explain that unspeakable horror who hadn't known.

But apart from this sign, concrete and moral at the same time, bequeathed to our civic geography remains the suspicion that the writer has touched even the deepest strings of our hearing, and that his legacy is, in fact, something decidedly less material, but no less valuable.

Alberico I ask how, today, the figure of his father is perceived by the people, by the readers, and so I find myself, at first, a little surprise in the feeling that the copious letters answer that still are routed to the Stern family do not come so much from veterans or children of veterans, but by people who suffer. "We write mainly who is facing a serious illness, or those who have recently lost a loved one, as a wife or a child: they say that reading the pages of my father gives them the strength to deal with greater courage his sorrow" – I Unveils Alberico.

And then I understand. I understand that Mario did not express in his writings only the suffering ofwar experience or life of hardship that featured people of our mountains until a few years ago. I understand that Mario did not write itself, only for veterans or for poor mountain people who "died in the war and tribolava in peace", as in a motorcycle blurts out anger Matthew's father in the year of the victory. Mario wrote to all, as only the true writers can do, sensing that the suffering is a persistent part of the human experience.

This is the great lesson that Stern has learned along the way of the soldier and the man. This is the great lesson of the mountain to his sons, which teacheshumility than a nature which should not be much tamed, but accepted and grown -up not to take from it what you need-to learn finally to be part of it and live with it. This is the lesson ofwasting lives that it was of war and rebirth that from it, however, followed. This is the lesson of illness, which measures our limitations, but that at the same time makes us discover unexpected resources.

It only remains to wait for the jury's verdict of Riva del Garda, with names like Eraldo Affinati (curator of Meridian who collects the complete works of Stern), Marie Hélène Angelini (formerly Professor of Italian studies at theUniversity of Nice and French translator of Stern), Margaret Detomas (journalist, writer and expert in alpine languages), Paola Maria Filippi (Professor of German literature and literary translation at the University of Bologna), Graziano Riccadonna (scholar in modern history and contemporary regional), Paolo Rumiz (writer, journalist and theENT in war zones).

We therefore who, among the writers of the Alps, has picked up this precious inheritance left by a Sergeant, a man who knew how to write for everyone.

Michela Rodeghiero

Note from Asiago.It

The winner of the prize was informed after the printing of the newspaper. It is MAURO CORONA with his book "the voice of man Cold".