WONDY PRIZE FOR RESILIENT LITERATURE VII EDITION: ANTONELLA LATTANZI WINS WITH THE NOVEL “THINGS THAT ARE NOT TOLD” (EINAUDI)
Laura Imai Messina with the book “The island of heartbeats” (PIEMME) is instead the winner decreed by the popular jury.
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Milan, 30 April 2024 – It’s Antonella Lattanzi with the novel “Things that are not told” (Einaudi), the winner of the seventh edition of the Wondy Prize for resilient literatureannounced yesterday evening at the Teatro Manzoni in Milan during the traditional evening of celebration between words and music that accompanies the awards ceremony, presented by Camila Raznovich and Alessandra Tedesco, with the participation of numerous guests including: Clara Soccini, the pianist Leo Einaudi , the Piccola Orchestra dei Popoli, and the actors Valerio Aprea, Vinicio Marchioni, Marta Gastini and Pia Lanciotti.
In the photo, center, Antonella Lattanzi.
Laura Imai Messina with the book “The island of heartbeats” (PIEMME) is instead the winner decreed by the popular jury.
In the photos, in the center, Laura Imai Messina.
A was also awarded special mention to Claudia Grande for the book “Bim Bum Bam Ketamina” (Il Saggiatore).
The Technical Jury, chaired by Gaia Tortora It’s composed by Marco Balzano, Federico Bertoni, Alessandra Carati, Paola Cereda, Cristina Di Canio, Luca Dini, Emanuele Nenna, Roberta Scorranese and Gianni Turchetta, she expressed herself as follows in the motivation:
“Antonella Lattanzi tells, with great courage and ferocious determination, the very private story of the attempt to have a child at thirty-eight through assisted fertilization. It can be said that everything goes for the worst: Antonella becomes pregnant with three girls and has to proceed with what is euphemistically called a “reduction”, stopping the heart of one of them: but all three die. Things That Are Not Told is a powerful narrative, concentrated to the point of obsession, which involves and shocks because it is capable of avoiding any surrender to pathos, building a gaze and a voice full of suffering, but denied to any temptation of effusiveness. Resilience acts here at every moment, even when desperation lurks.
Lattanzi chooses the path of a frankly autobiographical narrative, with long stretches of diarism. The apparent simplicity of the plot, however, should not be deceiving: the keystone of the book is in fact rigorous editing, which generates a relentless narrative progression, riveting the reader until the end. The author uses a dry, tense and even colloquial style. Her autobiography, almost without filter, manages to stage dramas shared by many women, penetrating an unprecedented intimacy of the soul and body, and bringing into play the very meaning of writing: a challenge to an intolerable pain, which transforms into the very reason to continue living.”
The other finalist works were: The life of those who remain Of Matteo B. Bianchi (Mondadori)Hidden words Of Arianna Montanari (Mondadori), A little peace Of Mattia Signorini (Feltrinelli) e Bad in the East Of Andreea Simionel (Italo Svevo).
The winner receives a prize of 5000 euros and a work on canvas by the artist Luca Tridente, whose works donated in previous editions have been included in the Catalog of modern art (Editoriale Giorgio Mondadori), considered a point of reference for modern and contemporary art. An award of 2000 euros it was instead awarded to the winner of the popular jury.
Before the evening a moment dedicated to jurors and finalists was organized in collaboration with ABC Catering, a project born to give a second chance to the inmates of the Bollate Prison House, giving them the necessary training to set up high-profile events. An initiative that sees food as a possibility for social redemption, offering a way to restore identity to people and accompany them back into society through belonging to a recognized job. An example of inclusion and resilience, in the full spirit of the evening.
The seventh edition of the Wondy Award is organized by the “Wondy Sono Io” association, this year in collaboration with the weekly magazine F, with the Main Sponsors Banco BPM, Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP), Community, Mindful Capital Partners (MCP) , Tendercapital and the Technical Sponsors Collistar, MASI, PHYTO-L’energia della natura, Planetaria Hotels and Yamaha.
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The Wondy Prize for resilient literature is the literary recognition created in 2018 in memory of the journalist and writer Francesca Del Rosso (1974-2016), known by the nickname Wondy and author of the volume Wondy – or how to become a superhero to recover from cancer (Rizzoli, 2014), in which he described his way of dealing with the disease with irony and courage. Awarded annually and reserved for books that express the concept of resilience with particular force through literary prose, the Award is promoted and organized by the “Wondy Sono Io” association, created together with a group of friends by Alessandro Milan, with the aim to continue the great human and intellectual legacy left by his wife Francesca, a great book enthusiast, who with her story was able to teach women and men how difficulties of various kinds in life can – and must – be faced, possibly with a smile .
All information on the site https://wondysonoio.org/
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