Andrea Bajani has won the 2025 Premio Strega, Italy’s most prestigious literary award, with his novel L’anniversario (The Anniversary). The Rome-born author secured 194 votes, comfortably ahead of runner-up Elisabetta Rasy’s Perduto è questo mare, which received 133.
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On 5 January 1932, in the town of Alessandria in northern Italy, Umberto Eco was born. Renowned as a novelist, philosopher, semiotician, and cultural critic, Eco’s work spanned genres and disciplines.
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Born on 27th September 1871 in the small town of Nuoro, Sardinia, Grazia Deledda became the first Italian woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Deledda’s works, rich in Sardinian culture and traditions, delve into the human condition, exploring themes of fate, guilt, and redemption that resonate far beyond her island home.
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Massimo Carlotto, a prominent figure in contemporary Italian literature, is renowned for his gripping noir novels that delve deep into the underbelly of Italian society. Born on 22nd July 1956, in Padua, Carlotto’s works are a testament to his complex relationship with the legal and criminal worlds.
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Donatella Di Pietrantonio was announced overnight as the winner of the 2024 Strega Prize, Italy’s top literary award, for her novel ‘L’Età Fragile’ (The Fragile Age).
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From October to December, Trieste is celebrating its ‘inadequate’ literary hero Zeno Cosini. Zeno is the protagonist of Italo Svevo’s great modernist masterpiece Zeno’s Conscience, which came out 100 years ago.
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23rd April is World Book and Copyright Day, coinciding with St. George’s Day, in many places a rose and a book are given as gifts. We look at the top 10 works by Italian authors.
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2021 marks the 700th anniversary of the death of celebrated author and poet Dante. His work the Divine Comedy, a story in verse of love, admiration, intrigue was written whilst in exile from his birthplace of Florence. His story is that of a Soldier, Poet, and Political exile. Dante’s early life Dante was born Durante […]
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