The winner of the XXXII edition of the “Giuseppe Berto” literary prize is the twenty -seven year old from Turin Beatrice Sciarrillo with the debut novel “In transparency the soul” (66thand2nd, BookClub necklace). The jury, chaired by Emanuele Trevi and composed of Silvia Avallone, Elena Stancanelli, Luigi Mascheroni and Emanuele Zinato, recognized a new and incisive voice in the Sciarrillo novel in the Italian literary panorama.
The recognition, born in 1988 by the will of Cesare De Michelis in memory of the great writer who lived between Capo Vaticano and Mogliano Veneto, is among the most prestigious in Italy dedicated to the first works of narrative and continues to represent a fundamental support for emerging talents.
The official motivation underlines how “in transparency the soul” is “the novel of a body that wants to disappear, told by an ego who, despite everything, in that pain, in the alternation between sagging and resistance to the abyss, finds its grace”. The disease, anorexia, thus becomes a tool to decipher the concerns of the present. “A novel that announces the birth of a true, serious, composed writer,” concludes the jury, underlining the author’s ability to fully place herself within the literary tradition while remaining rooted in the present time.
The winner was given a cash prize of 5,000 euros. In the finalist, Antonio Galetta (Pietà, Einaudi), Alberto Locatelli (Airù, Italo Svevo), Rosanna Turone (Santa, nn publisher) and the journalist of Gazzetta del Sud, Anna Mallamo (with the dark I see it, I see it, Einaudi).
The Berto Prize also maintains its unique feature this year in the Italian panorama: the alternation of the award ceremony between Mogliano Veneto and Capo Vaticano, in Calabria, where the writer spent most of his life and composed some of his most important works.
The 2025 edition was organized by the Giuseppe Berto Cultural Association, with the collaboration of the Municipalities of Mogliano Veneto and Ricadi, and the patronage of the Ministry of Culture, the Calabria Region, the Province of Treviso and the Municipality of Vibo Valentia.
“We are proud to continue supporting a prize that embodies determination and authenticity values - said Pietro Geremia, CEO of San Marco Group -. The link with the Venetian and Calabrian roots of Giuseppe Berto is very strong, and this initiative has the great merit of enhancing the first works and bringing out new voices of Italian narrative ».
With the victory of Beatrice Sciarrillo, the Berto Prize therefore reiterates its original mission: to give space to young authors, discover talents and offer Italian literature new narrative horizons. In this context, the novel “With the darkness I see it” with Anna Mallamo, a birth of birth and Messina by adoption, journalist of the “Gazzetta del Sud”, who tells, in the background of Calabria, the events of the sixteen -year -old Lucia Carbone, student of the classical high school who seizes a schoolmate and imprisons him in the basement of the house of the grandmother who died for a few months, is