Born and raised in Milan, our adolescent narrator has already developed the awareness of belonging to another place—Paris: an elected homeland where he can achieve his literary ambitions. A place with penniless artists and young bohemians in search of their place in the world. This place becomes the setting for all of his love stories—from narratives as a young man, telling of times in a small apartment in a remote arrondissement, to more mature recounts, describing his relationship with Hélène, the woman with whom he decides to share his future.These snapshots of his life in Paris and the woman he meets is the starting point for a reflection on the complexity of relationships and other existential themes. The narrator’s tone is always slightly disillusioned and the events are described with an ironic and irreverent style.
Thanks to the Prize the book has been translated in English by Jamie Richards and waiting for being published in the Unites States.

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Andrea Inglese / Read Bio

Paesaggio fragile. L’Italia Vista dai Margini reveals the lesser known areas of the Italian “outskirts” with different atmospheres, hidden landscapes never revealed in the common cartography. The book unveils alive voices, visions, and sounds of those fragile landscapes. However, the inevitable question exists—how can we give a future to these new and unchartered regions? Whether it be paintings or literature, the arts will help to shine a new light on these forgotten and humble places. Along the Maritime Alps valleys, the ancient Salt Roads of the Apennine, and the landscape of ancient buildings of the Adriatic to the Tyrrhenian Sea, this is a downtrodden story that emerges from the testimonies of mules, merchants, and street-hawkers. Returning to the memory reveals the ambiguous and murky relationship between past and future, which offers new interpretations to our land.
Thanks to the Prize the book has been translated in English by Ann Goldstain and waiting for being published in the Unites States.

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Antonella Tarpino / Read Bio

Forty years ago, Bakerton coal fueled the country. Then the mines closed, and the town wore away like a bar of soap. Now Bakerton has been granted a surprise third act: it sits squarely atop the Marcellus Shale, a massive deposit of natural gas. To drill or not to drill? Prison guard Rich Devlin leases his mineral rights to finance his dream of farming. He doesn’t count on the truck traffic and nonstop noise, his brother’s skepticism or the paranoia of his wife, Shelby, who insists the water smells strange and is poisoning their frail daughter. Meanwhile his neighbors, organic dairy farmers Mack and Rena, hold out against the drilling—until a passionate environmental activist disrupts their lives.Told through a cast of characters whose lives are increasingly bound by the opposing interests that underpin the national debate, Heat & Light depicts a community blessed and cursed by its natural resources. This is a dispatch from a forgotten America—a work of searing moral clarity from one of the finest writers of her generation, a courageous and necessary book.
Thanks to the Prize the book has been translated in Italian by Maria Giulia Castagnone and published in Italy by Bollati Boringhieri with the title L’America Sottosopra.

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Jennifer Haigh / Read Bio