The great favorite Andrea Bajani It exceeds everyone and guides, with 280 votes for the anniversary (Feltrinelli), the Cinquina of the Strega 2025 prize, announced on June 4 at the Roman theater in Benevento.
«It is a middle phase, a transit. I am experiencing it well, it all seems to me a great party, a feast of civilization at a time like this of rampant violence in the world, in which we are destroyed by planetary wars, to hate inside and outside families, by general hatred, by an inability to manage the world that is forgetting everyone “said Bajani to Ansa immediately after the announcement of the Cinquina. «It seems to me that this thing here, the Strega Prize, is not only a party but an act of militancy and civilization in going around. If I go around doing for a moment what the group pulls, I’m glad to do my part, “explained the writer, in blue dress, which showed tranquility during the bare.
Already a winner of the 2025 Strega Youth Prize, awarded on June 3 at the Teatro Comunale di Cardito (Naples), and already a finalist at the Strega and Campiello Prize in 2021 with the book of the houses (Feltrinelli), Bajani imposed himself with a large detachment, 54 points, from Nadia Terranova, in second place with what I know of you (Guanda), who got 226 votes. Third Elisabetta Rasy which is lost with this sea (Rizzoli)205 votes, positions itself a short distance (21 votes) from the second classified so much so that a new challenge is announced in the final sprint.
The real surprise of the first vote, however, is the former Aequo Altro fourth and fifth place where Paolo Nori placed themselves with the door and scream (Mondadori), and Michele Ruol With his first inventory novel of what remains after the forest burns of the independent publisher Terrarossa, both with 180 votes. In opening the evening at the Roman theater, conducted by Stefano Coletta and live on Raiplay – who saw the astrologer, lawyer and producer Simon & the Stars of honor in a fun game with the stars – the mayor of Benevento, Clemente Mastella, wanted to remember with “an affectionate thought of solidarity the children of Gaza who are humiliated in their dignity”. “This does not mean being anti -visionist, but not converging on the idea of the current head of government of Israel. Sometimes there are some too many erodes, these heroes should be put aside, you have to protect children, “said Mastella.
Between the novel and the Autoftion in the Anniversary Bajani bare the deadly weaves of an overwhelming family. “It is a book that has a double step: on the one hand the story of domestic hell, on the other the detachment of those who think of all this I can say my version,” Bajani said. He has the deal with family stories that report it especially to the great great -grandmother, who has experienced the experience of the asylum, also what I know of Terranova, also for the second finalist time to the witch, but here the voice is that of women and motherhood and the intent is to go beyond family mythology. “I found my great -grandmother’s folder, interned in 1928 for eleven days and ended up inside the novel in a hand -to -hand hand with literary writing” explains the writer. Lost is this sea that keeps the scene I am a dreamer father and a great friend and writer, Raffaele La Capria.
“I wrote a lot of mothers, there was this dark area of the Kingdom of the Fathers. A beloved and lost father and a friend found. Through the life of the others we discover our life,” Rasy said. The poems of Raffaello Baldini, “great poet who knows who they are” become a story in close the door and screams by Paolo Nori. “In Baldini there is the horror and the wonder of our lives.” Ruol, who is anesthesiologist, in the inventory of what remains after the forest burns, already winner of the Berto Prize in 2024, tells the loss of two children and the mourning entering the intimacy of the characters through the footprints left on the objects. Andrea Occhipinti, Donatella di Pietrantoniowinner of the Witch 2024 prize. They expressed their preferences, between single votes and collective votes, 626 voters out of 700 (equal to 89.4% of those entitled). The winner will be announced on Thursday 3 July at the Etruscan National Museum of Villa Giulia in Rome in an evening broadcast live by Rai3 with the conduct of Pino Strabioli.