Strega: the twelve candidates for the 2021 edition. The final five will be known on June 10th while the winner will have to wait until July 8th
The Steering Committee of the Strega Award, meeting via video conference, chose the twelve candidates for the 2021 edition from the 62 fiction titles proposed by the Friends of Sunday. These are the twelve selected books: Andrea Bajani, The Book of Houses (Feltrinelli), proposed by Concita De Gregorio; Edith Bruck, The Lost Bread (La nave di Teseo), proposed by Furio Colombo; Maria Grazia Calandrone, Shine Like Life (Ponte alle Grazie), proposed by Franco Buffoni; Giulia Caminito, The Water of the Lake is Never Sweet (Bompiani), proposed by Giuseppe Montesano; Teresa Ciabatti, It Seemed Like Beauty (Mondadori), proposed by Sandro Veronesi; Donatella Di Pietrantonio, Borgo Sud (Einaudi), proposed by Nadia Fusini; Lisa Ginzburg, Dear Peace (Ponte alle Grazie), proposed by Nadia Terranova; Giulio Mozzi, Repetitions (Marsilio), proposed by Pietro Gibellini; Daniele Petruccioli, The House of Mothers (TerraRossa), proposed by Elena Stancanelli; Emanuele Trevi, Two Lives (Neri Pozza), proposed by Francesco Piccolo; Alice Urciuolo, Adoration (66thand2nd), proposed by Daniele Mencarelli; Roberto Venturini, The Year That Was Christmas Twice in Rome (Sem), proposed by Maria Pia Ammirati.
The jury
The nominated books will be read and voted on by a jury of 660 eligible voters. In addition to the votes of the Friends of Sunday, there will be those expressed by scholars, translators and enthusiasts of our language and literature selected by the Italian Cultural Institutes abroad, strong readers chosen by independent bookstores distributed throughout Italy, collective votes expressed by schools, universities and reading groups, including the circles established by the Libraries of Rome. The shortlist will be voted on June 10. The winner will be elected on Thursday, July 8.
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