No Sardinian author is among the dozen candidates for the 2025 edition of the Strega Prize, now in its 79th edition. But in the new Strega Saggistica Prize, in its first year, there is a writer from the Island: Alessandro Aresu, with Geopolitica dell'intelligenza artificiali (Feltrinelli).
The scholar from Cagliari, also an editorialist for the Unione Sarda, is in the top five of the first specific edition dedicated to non-fiction . Also nominated with him are Anna Foa with The Suicide of Israel (Laterza), Vittorio Lingiardi with Body, Human (Einaudi), Simone Pieranni with 2100. How Asia Will Be, How We Will Be (Mondadori) and Luigi Zoja with Narrare l'Italia. Dal vertice del mondo al Novecento (Bollati Boringhieri).
A jury of 50 leading figures from academia, scientific research, and investigative and cultural journalism will vote for the work of the highest quality in contemporary nonfiction. The final evening of the Premio Strega Saggistica will be on June 20, at the Taormina International Book Festival .
For Sardinia, there is a specific appointment for the 2025 edition of the Strega Prize. The finalists (the dozen announced today, the final five on June 4 at the Teatro Romano in Benevento in view of the final evening on July 3) will be in Quartu Sant'Elena on June 18 at ViaConvento, for a meeting with readers .
The candidates for the 2025 Strega Prize are Valerio Aiolli (Portofino Blues), Saba Anglana (Mrs. Wonder), Andrea Bajani (The Anniversary), Elvio Carrieri (Poor Us), Deborah Gambetta (Incompleteness: A Story by Kurt Gödel), Wanda Marasco (With Your Back to This World), Renato Martinoni (Memories of Sounds and Lights: The Story of a Poet and His Madness), Paolo Nori (I Close the Door and Scream), Elisabetta Rasy (This Sea Is Lost), Michele Ruol (Inventory of What Remains After the Forest Burns), Nadia Terranova (What I Know About You) and Giorgio van Straten (The Rebel: The Reckless Life of Nada Parri).
(Unioneonline/r.sp.)
