The countdown has started. The weekend that will crown the thirteenth edition of the Sila ’49 prize An authentic festival of ideas and literature is announced, enriched by the presence of first great intellectuals. An extraordinary edition that has constantly seen the enthusiasm and participation of an increasingly numerous and involved audience in meetings with prominent personalities of Italian culture. The jury composed of Emanuele Trevi, Nicola Lagioia, Tomaso Montanari, Valerio Magrelli, Romano Luperini, Amedeo Di Maio, Piero Bevilacqua, Francesco Maria Greco, Marta Petrusewicz, Anna Salvo And Massimo Veltri He recently proclaimed the three winners. Three fantastic women: Nicoletta Verna triumphed in the literature section with its compelling “the days of glass” (Einaudi). The brilliant essayist and journalist Paola Caridi it wins the Economy and society section With the original and intense “The Gerusalem mulberry. The other story told by the trees” (Feltrinelli). To the teacher, essayist and translator Nadia Fusini The well -deserved is given Career award. A unique opportunity to meet these extraordinary protagonists of contemporary culture up close, together with other names of absolute prestige of the Italian intellectual world.
The program of events
Friday 6 June – Piazza dei Follari, Cosenza
18.30 – The fascinating Piazza dei Follari, a jewel of the Cosentino historic center, hosts an exceptional dialogue: the renowned art historian and rector of the University for Foreigners of Siena, Tomaso Montanari, meets Paola Caridi, winner of the Economy and Society section with “The Gerusalem’s mulberry. The other story told by the trees”. Two leading intellectuals that will offer new perspectives on history, art and Middle Eastern culture in an unmissable comparison.
Saturday 7 June – Palazzo Arnone, Cosenza
11.30 am – The majestic sixteenth -century residence of Palazzo Arnone, home of the National Gallery of Cosenza, welcomes Nadia Fusini’s Lectio Magistralis on the theme “Shakespeare and Cervantes: literature, theater and dream …”. A deep dive between two giant auto -giants of world literature led by one of the most refined contemporary interpreters, professor at Ca ‘Foscari and internationally renowned scholar.
18.30 – The great moment of the award ceremony, conducted with skill by the famous journalist, writer and historic Armenian Retanna, prestigious signature of Italian cultural journalism and author of numerous successful essays. A solemn event that will celebrate the talent and creativity of the three winners of this year: Nicoletta Verna, Paola Caridi and Nadia Fusini.
Sunday 8 June – Sila Prize Foundation, Camigliatello Silano
11.00 am – Grand finale in the suggestive headquarters of the Sila Prize Foundation in Camigliatello, where a very high literary level will be held. Viola Ardone, winner of the last edition and author of the bestseller “The Children’s Train”, will dialogue with Emanuele Trevi, Strega 2021 prize with “Two lives”, member of the jury of the Sila Prize, refined writer and literary critic among the most influential on the contemporary scene, on the theme “Weave the stories”. A fascinating journey into the laboratory of contemporary narrative conducted by two masters of Italian writing.
The winners and reasons:
Nicoletta Verna with Glass days (Einaudi) is the winner of the Literature prize.
Motivation: “It has been rightly observed that with” the days of glass “Nicoletta Verna has composed a historical novel, which evokes still very lively and painful issues such as the atrocities of fascism and resistance, avoiding any predictable rhetoric. And it is the psychological credibility of the characters of the glass days, starting from Redenta, the unforgettable protagonist of the novel, combined with the fluidity and prehensality of the style, to guarantee Nicoletta VERNA VERNA VERNA VERNA VERN. So remarkable for a book that, despite being still a novelty in the bookstore, seemed to the jury endowed with the increasingly rare ability, to remain vivid and indeliblely in the memory of readers “.
Paola Caridiessayist and journalist, wins the Economy and society prize with the book The mulberry of Jerusalem. The other story told by the trees (Feltrinelli).
Motivation: “In a time marked by conflicts,” The mulberry of Jerusalem “by Paola Caridi is a necessary work, a poetic and political gesture at the same time. Through trees and plants, the author tells a lateral story of the Middle East, in which violence also affects the landscape, the non -human life, thus reflecting the wounds that men inflict on their fellow men. Rigorous that digs in the depths of memory in a new form, highlighting the war as the most sensational failure that the kind of which we are part – unique in the creation – is able to produce “.
TO Nadia Fusiniacademic teacher, essayist and translator, the Career award.
Motivation: “In Nadia Fusini, a very fine scholar and public intellectual, coexist the profound connoisseur of English literature and the comparative, the translator and the essayist sensitive to gender themes, the narrator and the cultural promoter engaged primarily for the liberation of women and in criticism of male domain. Of particular value is the intertwining and exchange between all these plans, in the name of an overall intellectual model inherited from the tradition of the tradition of the tradition of the tradition of the tradition Modern, and deeply rethought in its features of the privilege of class and gender “.
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