The award ceremony for students and classes of secondary schools 2nd degree that they participated in 18th edition of the “Giana Anguissola” literary competition, was an opportunity to meet the writer Marie Aude Murailamong the most important authors of French children’s literature, who in his lyrics ironically addresses delicate themes such as emotional growth, gender identity, family ties and justice.
The Giana Anguissola literary prize is promoted by the Municipality of Piacenza, the Passerini-Landi municipal library and created in collaboration with Equilibri, with funding from the Piacenza and Vigevano Foundation. Theme of this edition, “Here and elsewhere. From unlivable cities to invisible cities”.
THE WINNERS OF THE COMPETITION
The first three classified in each category receive, respectively, the sum of 200, 150 and 100 euros in book vouchers. All classes of participants were sent the entries selected by the Jury of merit, among which the classes themselves decided the winners through online voting.
POETRY SECTION
1st – Growing up is scary – Charlotte Montermini
GM Colombini 3rd Sub High School
Poetry that describes the fear and contradictions of growth and the transition to an age that overwhelms certainties and dreams, leaving one without answers and hopes.
2nd – Between flowers and thorns – Malak Hassan
Lorenzo Respighi High School 3rd G
The flowers and thorns of the title are the elements linked to growth: inextricably positive and negative aspects of an exciting and scary journey towards an unknown future
3rd – My brother – Camilla Ghezzi
Lorenzo Respighi High School 2nd G
Haiku that effectively uses the metaphor of two drops of water to describe the relationship between two brothers.
PROSE SECTION
1st – Acrobat and young tightrope walker – Agata Zavattarelli
Liceo Colombini 3* SuA
The difficult transition from childhood to adolescence, with its physical and mental transformations, described with precision and a sadness colored by nostalgia, but also with the awareness of mistakes and possible ways to correct them, thanks to the passion for art to which the title also refers.
2nd – In the blue painted blue – Federica Mazza
Melchiorre Gioia High School 1st A Ling.
A fun walk with a very special chatty bicycle turns into a wonderful flying journey to the tune of Domenico Modugno’s song, where the author manages to convey to readers the light-heartedness of a daydream
3rd – Classroom of crossed destinies: the Star – Elisa Gazzola
B. Cassinari Art High School 3rd Figurative Arts
A successful story of the protagonist who, against the backdrop of a gray and insignificant day, manages to describe herself using the lively and colorful symbolism of the Major Arcana of the Tarot.
VIDEO SECTION
1st – Freedom – Sabou Samake, Valentina Castignoli, Sara Nicoli, Sabrina Orlandi
Melchiorre Gioia High School 3rd FL
For the creativity and originality demonstrated in the composition of music and lyrics and the relevance to Calvinian themes.
2nd – A Boy is Almost Nothing (Booktrailer) – Daniel Spingardi Emily Dotti
Melchiorre Gioia High School 3rd FL
For the delicacy and sensitivity with which the difficulty of affirming one’s identity is faced in a world that does not accept what is different from its canons.
