Strega Prize

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The Strega Prize (Premio Strega) is the most prestigious Italian literary award.
[citation needed] It has been awarded annually since 1947 for the best work of p
rose fiction by an Italian author and first published between 1 May of the previ
ous year and 30 April. Winners have included Cesare Pavese (1950), Alberto Morav
ia (1952), Giorgio Bassani (1956), Elsa Morante (1957), Dino Buzzati (1958), Giu
seppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1959), Natalia Ginzburg (1963), Tommaso Landolfi (197
5), Primo Levi (1979), Umberto Eco (1981), Gesualdo Bufalino (1988) and Claudio
Magris (1997).
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History
The selection process
Sponsorship
Premio Strega speciale, 2006
Winners
External links

History
In 1944 Maria and Goffredo Bellonci started to host a literary salon at their ho
me in Rome. These Sunday gatherings of writers, artists and intellectuals grew t
o include many of the most notable figures of Italian cultural life. The group b
ecame known as the Amici della Domenica, or Sunday Friends . In 1947 the Belloncis,
together with Guido Alberti, owner of the firm which produces the Strega liqueu
r, decided to inaugurate a prize for fiction, the winner being chosen by the Sun
day friends.
The activities of the Bellonci circle and the institution of the prize were seen
as marking a tentative return to normality in Italian cultural life: a feature of
the reconstruction which followed the years of Fascism, war, occupation and lib
eration. The first winner of the Strega, elected by the Sunday Friends, was Enni
o Flaiano, for his first and only novel Tempo di uccidere, which is set in Afric
a during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War. It has been translated into English as
The Short Cut.
The selection process
Since the death of Maria Bellonci in 1986, the prize has been administered by th
e Fondazione Maria e Goffredo Bellonci. The members of the now 400-strong prize
jury, drawn from Italy s cultural elite, are still known as the Sunday Friends. Fo
r a book to be considered it must have the support of at least two Friends. This
initial long list is whittled down at a first ballot to a short list of five. T
he second round of voting, followed by the proclamation of the victor, takes pla
ce on the first Thursday in July in the nymphaeum of the Villa Giulia, Rome.
Sponsorship
Recently Telecom Italia have joined Liquore Strega as sponsors of the prize.
Premio Strega speciale, 2006
In 2006, the seventieth year of the Strega Prize, a special award was made to th
e Constitution of Italy, a document which was drawn up and approved during 1946,
the year of the Strega s birth. The award was received by ex-President of the Ita
lian Republic Oscar Luigi Scalfaro.

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Ennio Flaiano, Tempo di uccidere

Vincenzo Cardarelli, Villa Tarantola
Giambattista Angioletti, La memoria
Cesare Pavese, La bella estate
Corrado Alvaro, Quasi una vita
Alberto Moravia, I racconti
Massimo Bontempelli, L'amante fedele
Mario Soldati, Lettere da Capri
Giovanni Comisso, Un gatto attraversa la strada
Giorgio Bassani, Cinque storie ferraresi
Elsa Morante, L'isola di Arturo
Dino Buzzati, Sessanta racconti
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Il gattopardo
Carlo Cassola, La ragazza di Bube
Raffaele La Capria, Ferito a morte
Mario Tobino, Il clandestino
Natalia Ginzburg, Lessico famigliare
Giovanni Arpino, L'ombra delle colline
Paolo Volponi, La macchina mondiale
Michele Prisco, Una spirale di nebbia
Anna Maria Ortese, Poveri e semplici
Alberto Bevilacqua, L'occhio del gatto
Lalla Romano, Le parole tra noi leggere
Guido Piovene, Le stelle fredde
Raffaello Brignetti, La spiaggia d'oro
Giuseppe Dess, Paese d'ombre
Manlio Cancogni, Allegri, giovent
Guglielmo Petroni, La morte del fiume
Tommaso Landolfi, A caso
Fausta Cialente, Le quattro ragazze Wieselberger
Fulvio Tomizza, La miglior vita
Ferdinando Camon, Un altare per la madre
Primo Levi, La chiave a stella
Vittorio Gorresio, La vita ingenua
Umberto Eco, Il nome della rosa
Goffredo Parise, Il sillabario n.2
Mario Pomilio, Il Natale del 1833
Pietro Citati, Tolstoj
Carlo Sgorlon, L'armata dei fiumi perduti
Maria Bellonci, Rinascimento privato
Stanislao Nievo, Le isole del paradiso
Gesualdo Bufalino, Le menzogne della notte
Giuseppe Pontiggia, La grande sera
Sebastiano Vassalli, La chimera
Paolo Volponi, La strada per Roma
Vincenzo Consolo, Nottetempo, casa per casa
Domenico Rea, Ninfa plebea
Giorgio Montefoschi, La casa del padre
Maria Teresa Di Lascia, Passaggio in ombra
Alessandro Barbero, Bella vita e guerre altrui di Mr. Pyle, 'gentiluomo

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Claudio Magris, Microcosmi

Enzo Siciliano, I bei momenti
Dacia Maraini, Buio
Ernesto Ferrero, N.
Domenico Starnone, Via Gemito
Margaret Mazzantini, Non ti muovere
Melania G. Mazzucco, Vita

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2012

Ugo Riccarelli, Il dolore perfetto

Maurizio Maggiani, Il viaggiatore notturno
Sandro Veronesi, Caos calmo
Niccol Ammaniti, Come Dio comanda
Paolo Giordano, La solitudine dei numeri primi
Tiziano Scarpa, Stabat mater
Antonio Pennacchi, Canale Mussolini
Edoardo Nesi, Storia della mia gente
Alessandro Piperno, Inseparabili