Lidia Ravera con One day all this will be yours (Bompiani) is the winner of the third edition of the Orbetello Book Prize – Maremma Tuscany Coast – during which the Lifetime Achievement Tribute was given to the Swede Björn Larsson.
The winner was chosen by the Jury of the Selection Group, the Gruppo Lettori Forti di Orbetello, the Young Readers Group of Orbetello who come from the Classical High School, Scientific High School, Nautical Institute. And, finally, also by the Group “Amici del Parco della lettura”, this year made up of 100 members. 98 voters out of 105 cast their vote. The counting of the ballots took place on Saturday 29 June at the Municipality of Orbetello.
“It is always encouraging to receive a prestigious award, because behind it there are readers who take literature seriously,” said Björn Larsson. “It is even more important when the award is not given only for the latest ‘novelty’ or what ‘everyone is talking about’. In this world made of fragments and a sea of bits, an award like the Orbetello Award reminds us that literature should not have an expiration date.”
The winners received a sculpture that faithfully reproduces the end part of the cast iron columns that delimit the area of the Giardini Chiusi and was created with care and passion by a historic Orbetella craftsman Ilio Campidonico.
A special mention was given to it Valeria Parrella con Small miracles and other betrayals (Feltrinelli). He presented the three evenings Carola Carullijournalist, presenter of Tg2, writer (in bookstores with All the
good, all badSalani). The other finalists: Susanna Bissoli con The Lightning Strikers (Einaudi) and Anthony Franchini con The fire you carry inside you (Marsilio).
“This is an award that comes to a writer with great experience and the ability to construct stories that bet on the dialectic between public and private life,” said Paolo Di Paolo, President of the Selection Jury. “Indeed, since her sensational debut, Lidia Ravera has created an emotional counter-history of the country between the late twentieth century and the first decades of the current century, with particular attention to the “seasons” of existence: extreme youth and desire and revolt, maturity not only as disenchantment, the “third half” not only as surrender.”
