Carmine Abate, the Campiello-winning writer from Carfizzi, won the Biella Literature and Industry Prize with his latest novel, «A happy country» (Mondadori). The jury, chaired by Alberto Sinigaglia and composed of vice-president Claudio Bermond, Paola Borgna, Ida Bozzi, Paolo Bricco, Loredana Lipperini, Sergio Pent, Alessandra Tedesco and Tiziano Toracca, declared him the winner of the XXIV edition, dedicated to Fiction.
In the novel, Carmine Abate tells the true story of Erava, the “disappeared” town, which today no one talks about and which many, even Calabrians, do not know, composing together – as it has always been in its most authentic form and supported by a rigorous and at the same time resonant writing – a story of love and anger, of individual destinies and collective destiny, of “violence of memories” and, despite everything, of hope.
The special jury prize was awarded to Sergio Escobar for «The Infinite Spectacle. Stories of theater and political scenarios” (Baldini and Castoldi), stories of encounters – clashes with great protagonists of history, but also of “supporting actors” against the backdrop of political scenarios such as Honecker’s Berlin and the Wall and Gorbachev’s Soviet Union and the end of perestroika. The “Readers’ Jury” prize was awarded to Andrea Bazzanini for «The Last Season. A workers’ tale” (Oligo editore), a novel that tells the story of the end of one of the many sugar factories in the Bassa and with it the industrial decline of the Po Valley.
The awards ceremony will be held in Biella on November 22nd in the Città Studi Auditorium.
