The Ninetta Bartoli award goes to Michela Murgia, the first mayor of Italy elected in Sardinia, in Borutta, in 1946. The ceremony took place this morning in Cagliari. The mayor of Cabras Andrea Abis was also present. The mayor was summoned by the Cagliari Section of Fidapa, promoter of the award, which this year decided to dedicate the award to the memory of Michela Murgia, the intellectual originally from Cabras, who recently passed away, who stood out for her his intellectual and political commitment.
Maria Laura Deidda, vice-president of the Italian Federation of Women, Arts, Professions and Business, read the reasons why it was decided to award the award to Michela Murgia: «She was a political activist, writer of national and international fame, playwright, commentator and critic literary. But his life and his courageous message cannot be summed up in a few lines, because he embraced the entire social, political, religious universe, in a continuous search for new horizons, new spaces of social sustainability, to welcome, understand, include everyone, especially the most fragile beyond any stereotype. Today we women want to embrace her symbolically with the Ninetta Bartoli award in her memory."
Andrea Abis received the award which will subsequently be given to the writer's mother, during an event that will take place in Cabras. Mayor Andrea Abis was honored for the recognition of Michela Murgia: «Michela Murgia was a woman with a fervent mind, a person of culture and great intelligence, characterized by the courage to take a firm stand. She was a non-conformist and contrasting figure, but it is precisely thanks to figures like hers that society questions itself, progresses and improves. All of us should be particularly grateful to this woman who was born in Cabras and who left her mark in terms of the cultural updating of society."
