The final ceremony of the 18th edition of the Europa Prize will take place in Pisa, in the Sala delle Baleari of Palazzo Gambacorti, on Friday 14 June, at 5pm, chaired by the Tuscan writer Paola Alberti and organized by the Compagnia del Delitto (www.cattivabambina .it) and by the Gruppo Internazionale di Lettura with the patronage of the Municipality of Pisa and the collaboration of the La Feltrinelli bookshop, which every year not only highlights the winners of the national literary competition with free participation for detective stories written by women but also some characters who have distinguished in enhancing issues related to equal opportunities and the diffusion of culture. In fact, the award will be given to Professor Domenica Romagno, professor of Linguistics at the University of Pisa and responsible for numerous international projects including the one on the relationship between neurobiology and grammar in collaboration with the prestigious MIT, in Cambridge, in the United States, and the journalist and writer from Viareggio Elena Torre, an eclectic author who moves between theater and literature, touching on the most diverse genres, short stories, essays, detective stories, fairy tales, children’s stories and dramaturgy.
The literary competition was won by Sabrina Santerini, from Calci, for the story “Ugolin”, all played between a Gothic and mysterious Middle Ages and the contemporary age. Noted by the jury were the stories “Fantasmi” by Maria Fernanda Mancuso, born in Piacenza and Milanese by adoption, “Clara” by Chiara Zanobini, a teacher of literary subjects in Pisa who lives in San Giuliano Terme, and “Loretta’s dream” by Anna Corrado, who lives in Novara. The winner of the children’s stories section is the twelve-year-old Helena Pagano from Grosseto, with the story “The case of Milli Smith”.
Carlo Emilio Michelassi, actor of the Compagnia del delitto, in the Sala delle Baleari will read some passages taken from the stories reported by the jury, which is composed of Alberti, president, Maria Paola Ciccone, president of the Gruppo Internazionale di Lettura, Elena Calamari, former professor of Psychology at the University of Pisa, by Rita Biancheri, professor of Sociology at the University of Pisa, and by Chiara Patarino, communicator, blogger and author of children’s literature.
The Pisan painter Michela Marinai, of whom a temporary exhibition entitled “Faces of women” is underway in the Feltrinelli bookshop in Pisa, inaugurated during the prize presentation conference, will exhibit one of her paintings at Palazzo Gambacorti to represent female versatility in the arts .
Appointment in Pisa, Friday 14 June, at 5pm, in the Sala delle Baleari of Palazzo Gambacorti.
