Michele Mari wins 80th Strega Prize with ‘I Convitati di Pietra’
Michele Mari won the 2026 Strega Prize, Italy’s most prestigious literary award, with his novel I Convitati di Pietra (The Stone Guests) at a ceremony in Rome’s Piazza del Campidoglio on Wednesday. Votes cast by the prize’s jury of more than 600 members of the cultural world were counted live.
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