Giuseppe Catozzella with “The flower of the illusions” (Feltrinelli); Wanda Marasco with “from behind to this world” (Neri Pozza), and Elisabetta Rasy With “lost this sea” (Rizzoli, who arrived second to the Strega Prize): They are the finalists of the National Literary Prize Elio Vittorini. They will compete for the final victory on the evening of September 6 at the ancient market of Ortigia in Syracuse.
The evaluation commission, chaired by Antonio di Grado, also decreed Winner for the Opera Prima section – established since this year -: Roberta Casasole, author of “Type 1 women” (Feltrinelli), and assigned a special mention to the Autoper Syracusan Emma of Rao (“poisons and perfumes”, Ianieri). The premium for independent publishing Arnaldo Lombardi, dedicated to the memory of one of the “Fathers” of the Vittorini Prize, went to the Kalòs publishing house in Palermo, which since 1989 tells through the titles of its varied catalog all the beauty of Sicily with a precise mission: to spread the beauty of the territory and inspire readers to know and preserve it.
The delivery ceremony will be the conclusion of the Victorinian week which, starting from September 3, will see numerous appointments with the book and the pleasure of reading in the center. To designate among the three finalists, the winner of the XXIV Award Vittorini, promoted by the Vittorini-QuintesoDo Cultural Association and the Department of Culture of Syracuse in collaboration with the investigation of the investigation and with the patronage of the Department of Cultural Heritage and Sicilian identity, now enters the field of the jury of readers-composed of enthusiasts of the book identified together with the company Dante Alighieri, the bookstores of the territory participating in the territory to the initiative, and to the “Student Connection” group – which will cumulatively express a vote that will add to the individual ones of the evaluation commission.
“The high quality of the works in competition, some protagonists of other important literary prizes, and the now consolidated presence of most of the most significant national publishing houses, some of which were present with more authors, undoubtedly shows that the growth process of the” reborn “Vittorini Prize has been started on solid bases”, commented the president of the Vittorini-QualiaDo Enzo Papa cultural association.