Anna Foa, with “The suicide of Israel” (Laterza) is the winner of the first edition of the wizard witch awardpromoted by the Maria and Goffredo Bellonci Foundation, by the Strega Alberti Benevento and from Taobuk-Taormina Book Festival, in collaboration with Bper Banca, Fuis-Unita Italian Federation Writers, Vieusseux Cabinet and Architecture House.
With the conduct of Eva Giovannini and the introduction of Antonella Ferrara President and artistic director of Taobuk, Giuseppe D’Avino (President of Strega Alberti Benevento), Salvatore Pulignano (Regional Director of Calabria-Sicily Bper Banca), Stefano Petrocchi and Giovanni Solimine (respectively director and president of the Maria and Goffredo Bellonci Foundation) spoke.
The author is the first of a great importance of great importance Announced last April in Rome by the Scientific Committee made up of Carlo Felice Casula, Alfonso Celotto, Antonella Ferrara, Simonetta Fiori, Paolo Giordano, Francesca Mannocchi, Nico Pitrelli, Lucrezia Reichlin, Nino Rizzo Nervo and by President Giovanni Solimine.
In Taobuk the beautiful ceremony held last night In Piazza IX Aprile he saw all the finalists together, also present the winner of the international non -fiction witch award Anne Applebaum, author of “Autocracies. Who are the dictators who want to govern the world” (Mondadori).
A prize that joins the greatest one for fiction And this to promote the essay as a necessary tool to read the world in its contemporary complexity.
Five precious books that cross the great themes of current affairs And they help us to venture into the knowledge of the facts, of which we often have disordered theories in a world where chaos reigns more and more.
Anna Foa, former university professor of History of Judaism, raised in a family of anti -fascist intellectuals, with “The suicide of Israel” (Laterza), An unsettling and strong book from the titleleaves no room for doubt: what was considered the democratic country of the Middle East has never been, since the time of Ben Gurion. The teacher, visibly excited and applauded by the thick audience who crowded the Taorminese square beating heart of the festival, condemns the war, condemns the genocide, condemns the limitations of Arab citizens, sentences the differences.
Alessandro Aresuscientific councilor of Limes, scientific director of the school of politics and head of the technical secretariat of the Ministry of the South and territorial cohesion is the author of “geopolitics of artificial intelligence” (Feltrinelli), “a definitive invention of humanity- whose diffusion generates fears, doubts and in the imagination apocalyptic visions. And therefore Aresu meticulously analyzes “the” machine “of artificial intelligence, its human history on which new ambitions are intertwined and tells of the stories in which talents, businesses and capital analyzes the same for which America was attractive and could become attractive.
Is psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Vittorio Lingiardiordinary to Sapienza, a well-known essayist whose studies revisit the mind-cervello relationship. His book “Body, human” (Einaudi) according to three routes, the remembered body, the detailed body, the found body defines us. So, the only way to find the body is to tell it. The bodies are texts that recall the past, the body we have is what we can tell between personal history and collective history.
Simone Pierannijournalist and writer who lived in China (where he often returns) from 2006 to 2014, makes us take a journey into the Asia of the future but not too far in “2100. How will Asia be, how we will be” (Mondadori): a future that is already present in civil society, among the people that Pieranni meets every day already futuristic metropolis, futuristic architectures, autonomous machines, smart cities, artificial intelligence. Deepseek, beyond our prejudices and stereotypes that make us look at Asia as if it were only China.
It runs through Italy all and its long history “narrating Italy. From the top of the world” to the twentieth century (Bollati Boringhieri) of Luigi Zojaworld -renowned psychoanalyst, who in an extraordinary journey between history, art and literature, keeping in mind fear, paranoia and nostalgia, represents us from the Middle Ages to the present day, gives us a collective narrative by tracing a parable that sees an evident growth from the Middle Ages to its peak, the Renaissance. Then a decline from which after 1945 was raised. But the nostalgic narration of a supposed grandiose imperial past has never completely abandoned us and still resonates in the collective unconscious of the Italians.