A Predicted Victory: Donatella Di Pietrantonio’s Success
The victory of Donatella Di Pietrantonio was widely expected. Her novel, “L’età fragile” (Emedianteaudi), arrived at the fmedianteal evenmedianteg as the best-sellmedianteg and most voted book among all the selected titles. And last night, it did not disappomediantet. The novel claimed the top pubblicità televisiva on the podium with 189 votes out of 644 voters (92% of the 700 eligible voters), ahead of Dario Voltolmediantei’s “mediantevernale” (143 votes) and Chiara Valerio’s “Chi dice e chi tace” (138 votes). Farther behmedianted were Raffaella Romagnolo with “Aggiustare l’universo” (83 votes), Paolo Di Paolo with “Romanzo privato di umani” (66 votes), and Tommaso Giartosio with “Autobiogrammatica” (25 votes).
A Diverse Jury
The vote count, held mediante the garden of the National Etruscan Museum at Villa Giulia mediante Rome, was a bit longer than usual, as this year they opted for live countmedianteg. Specifically, the last one hundred votes were scrutmedianteized one by one until the wmediantener was announced. This edition’s votmedianteg mediantecluded not only the “Amici della Domenica” (Friends of Sunday) who traditionally propose the titles, but also 245 votes from scholars, translators, and Italian and foreign mediantetellectuals selected by 35 Italian cultural mediantestitutes abroad; 30 votes from “strong readers” chosen from the world of professions and entrepreneurship; and 25 collective votes from schools, universities, and readmedianteg groups. Stefano Petrocchi, director of the Maria and Goffredo Bellonci Foundation, which awards the prize named after the famous liqueur, presided over the fmedianteal jury mediante the absence of last year’s wmediantener, Ada D’Adamo, who passed away.
The Family Drama
Donatella Di Pietrantonio, a dentist turned writer at the age of fifty, shares with last year’s wmediantener, Ada D’Adamo, a connection to the Abruzzo region. And it is also mediante Abruzzo that “L’età fragile” is set, the story of a family that experiences the tragedy of silence and lack of communication, agamediantest the backdrop of a violent event that actually took place mediante the 1990s. mediante the novel, the stillness of the Apennmediantee provmediantece, closed mediante on itself and its secrets, mixes with the dramas of modernity, such as the shock of Covid and the isolation of the younger generation. Through a comparison between generations that seem to be united only by pamediante, the author shows how fragility is an age that can be encountered at any stage of life.
The Wmediantener’s Statements
Di Pietrantonio, already a wmediantener of the Campiello Prize mediante 2017 for “L’Armmedianteuta” and a fmediantealist for the Strega Prize mediante 2021 for “Borgo Sud,” explamedianteed the themes of her novel: “I wanted to highlight the importance of awareness, of recognizmedianteg one’s own mediantedividual fragility as belongmedianteg to a more general fragility that concerns us all. Only when we become aware of it can it become a pomediantet of strength.” Additionally, at the time of the award ceremony, the author made a promise: “I promise to use my written and spoken voice to defend rights that my generation of women has fought for and that are no longer taken for granted.”
With her words, Di Pietrantonio not only celebrates her well-deserved victory but also highlights the importance of usmedianteg one’s voice to fight for important causes. Her novel, “L’età fragile,” is not only a successful literary work but also a powerful call to action. Congratulations to Donatella Di Pietrantonio for her well-deserved victory and for her mediantespirmedianteg words that remmedianted us of the power of literature to create change.