Ada D’Adamo won the Strega Prize

‘Come d’aria’ by Ada D’Adamo (posted by means of Elliot) won the 77th edition of the 2023 Strega Prize with 185 votes. In the setting of the lawn of the Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia in Rome, the presenter Geppi Cucciari presented the prize posthumously (the writer handed away after a protracted illness before even knowing she had ended up inside the pinnacle five) for the twelfth girl winner inside the records of the prestigious literary recognition this is assigned every year to a book published in Italy.

The five finalist authors additionally protected Maria Grazia Calandrone with “Where you didn’t deliver me” (Einaudi), Andrea Canobbio with “The night crossing” (La nave di Teseo), Romana Petri with “Stealing the night time” (Mondadori) and Rosella Postorino with “I constrained myself to loving you” (Feltrinelli).

The different prizes

“Come d’aria” has already gained the Strega Off 2023, a parallel vote that historically takes area on the Monk in Rome on the nighttime preceding the official one at Villa Giulia.

It had additionally won the Strega Giovani Prize, provided through school readers, and obtained eighty three options out of 503. The jury became made from girls and boys aged between 16 and 18 from 91 faculties in Italy and abroad. The prize became acquired by using Alfredo Favi, Ada’s husband, due to the fact she disappeared on April 1st of this year, immediately after getting to know that she had entered the dozen of the Strega Prize. The author who died on April 1, right now after gaining knowledge of that she was many of the finalists, were selected with the aid of school readers, and he or she received 83 choices out of 503.

Who become Ada D’Adamo

She was no longer a “expert” writer, D’Adamo, however an artist. She changed into born in Ortona, she lived and labored in Rome in 1967, where she graduated from the National Academy of Dance and graduated in Performing Arts Disciplines. You have spent a number of time looking at the body and its declinations at the modern-day scene, and you have written about it in numerous essays on dance and theatre.

It was the non-public enjoy of the mother of a touch lady born in 2005 with a rare form of mind malformation that led her to writing. The identify of the memoir performs on the call of the little woman, Daria, which like a whisper suggests that the lady born with a incapacity is made “like air” for folks that love her.

The story of “Come d’aria”

Ada D’Adamo in “Come d’aria” recounts the birth and early years of her daughter Daria, stricken by a critical congenital ailment. When Ada herself discovers in 2017 that she in turn has a tumor and that she has to go through very heavy remedies, her essential fear is that of losing bodily contact with Daria, that is a essential part of communicating with a child who has frailties so crucial.

“Having a disabled child – writes D’Adamo in his memoir – means being alone. Hopelessly, actually alone. There is not any going back. It will never be the same once more. It is as if the palm weevil had settled inside you and slowly gnaws the plant from the interior, reworking it right into a shell full of sawdust. The floor stays the same, however below the rims, underneath the skin, there may be nothing left. Loneliness is fabricated from small dots, one subsequent to the other. You don’t word it.”

Reading allows you to comply with this lady and this mother in a lucid and transferring memoir wherein the body has a crucial alleviation, as in dance, an art dear to the author and in which, along fears, fatigue and ache there's area for the strength of affections.

“I hope that reading it is able to help human beings sense less alone, in particular folks who discover themselves in Ada’s unfortunate situation”. This is how Loretta Santini, editor of the Elliot publishing house, presented it, who took the location of the writer in all the months that preceded the announcement of the winner of the Strega Prize. Always feeling “out of place many of the authors”, however continually honoring the work and the discern of the author that she and Elliott have chosen to publish.

The precedent of Mariateresa Di Leaves

Another author turned into crowned winner of the Strega Prize a few months after her demise. Mariateresa Di Doccia, author and politician, leading parent of the novel birthday celebration, died in 1994, on the age of 40, because of a serious illness. Her novel, “Passage within the Shadow, triumphed the following 12 months, in another very feminine version with 4 authors inside the very last 5.

Discia, partner of Sergio D’Elia, become very active within the area of human rights, founding, amongst different things, the affiliation “Hands Off Cain”, for the abolition of the dying penalty in the international.