Bancarella Prize 2023, Winner Francesca Giannone

Francesca Giannone is the winner Pancarella Prize 2023 with the novel mailman, published by North. The winner of the 71st edition of the Bancarella Prize was announced on Sunday 16 July, in Piazza della Repubblica, in Pontremoli (Massa Carrara). mailman It is a novel based on the history of the writer’s family, in particular from the story of her great-grandmother, the first postwoman of Salento. Pugliese, Giannone Graduated in Communication Sciences, has Cinema lesson at the Experimental Center for Cinematography in Rome; – Attending a writing course in the “Fairy Tales” workshop

The other finalists are: General words are found to Bea Boozy (Morellini Editor), «Chronoromanzo», a book that combines invented events with real events in the year 2022; noir King of memory to Massimo Cotto (Dar Gallucci), a story of pain and ghosts from the past; Historical thriller Fifth seal to David Koso (Newton-Compton), set in 15th-century Florence, built around a crime investigated by architect Leon Battista Alberti; distractions to Federica de Paulis (HarperCollins Italia), who investigates family relationships through the story of the disappearance of a child; And Gabriel to Sandro Neri (Hoepli), which defines the personality of singer-songwriter Giorgio Gaber. In 2022, Stefania O’Shea wins the Bancarella Prize with the novel Black winterAlso published by Editrice Nord.

The evening was hosted by the press Monica Marangoni in which the finalists talk about themselves and introduce the topics of their books; The musical accompaniment was by The Niro, stage name of musician Davide Combusti, who dedicated a song to each finalist.

The winner received the most preferences from the jury and got the job Saint John of God, Booksellers’ Special Protector, ceramics by Umberto Piombino. During the evening at Pontremoli the notary in charge, Dr. Sarah Rivieri, embarked on the counting in open session of the papers voted for by the independent booksellers. 179 ballots were received, each containing three sounds; 150 silent ballots have been opened while the last 29 direct ballots have been opened to the public.

This is amazing obtained preferencesPreferences: Francesca Giannone 172, Massimo Cotto 86, Davide Cossu 79, Bea Buozzi 72, Sandro Neri 72 and Federica de Paolis 53.

The prize, organized by the Città del Libro Foundation headed by Ignazio Landi and the Pontremoli and Bancarelle booksellers’ association, is among the most important and popular in Italy. Besides the Bancarella Award, other special awards, girly duro, on July 16th during the evening: To Giulia Faggian, wife of Marco Mattioli, commercial director for several national publishing houses; then to the booksellers Davide Giovannacci, from Biella; Giorgio Tarantola, from Sesto San Giovanni (Milan); and Alessia Panassi, whose bookstores are in Val di Susa.

Among the previous winners of the Bancarella Award Ernest Hemingway with The old man and the sea for Mondadori that prevailed in the first edition of 1953, and then for Boris Pasternak in 1958 with Doctor Zhivago (Feltrinelli), Umberto Eco in 1989 with Foucault’s pendulum (Pompiani), Elizabeth Strout in 2010 with Kittredge olives (Fazy).

Finally the Olympic champion Sarah heard me He is the winner of the 60th Bancarella Sport Award. The blue bird, the memorable gold of the 1980 Moscow Olympics, was awarded a prestigious award for life up, published by Ray Libri, co-authored with journalist Marco Franzelli. Sara Simeone won by 15 votes from writer Bruno Conti and Giammarco Menga from writers. breeze (Rizzoli). Instead, he finished third a team (Fandago Libri) by Domenico Procacci follows New Soccer Wars (Feltrinelli) by Marco Bellinazzo, Giuliano Giuliani is more alone than a goalkeeper (66thhand2nd publisher) by Paolo Tomaselli E Chris Amon. Bad luck does not exist» (Minerva) by Emiliano Tozzi.