of prestigious Italian literary award
Winners of Italy's Strega Prize will read their works as part of "STREGA@YALE," a celebration of the prestigious award and the Maria e Goffredo Bellonci Foundation, which administers the prize.
"STREGA@YALE," to be held Friday and Saturday, Oct. 3 and 4, will also include a symposium of celebrated critics discussing contemporary Italian literature. The event is sponsored by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the Whitney Humanities Center, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Department of Italian and the journal Yale Italian Poetry.
The Strega Prize originated in post-World War II Italy, when a group of Italian writers, intellectuals, artists and musicians known as the Sunday Friends would meet in the home of writer Maria Bellonci and her husband, Goffredo. In 1947, the couple, along with Guido Alberti, decided to institute a new literary prize, which would be awarded by vote of the members of the Sunday Friends. Alberti, the owner of the firm that produced Strega liqueur, provided the money for the prize and its name.
Today, the annual prize goes to a novel written by an Italian author between May 1 of the previous year and April 30 of the current year. The winners of the prize include such notables as Cesare Pavese, Natalia Ginsburg, Primo Levi and Umberto Eco.
Three recent recipients of the Strega Prize -- Enzo Siciliano (1998), Domenico Starnone (2001) and Melania Mazzucco (2003) -- will read from their works on Oct. 3 at 4 p.m. in the Beinecke Library, 121 Wall St. The readings will be in Italian and English. John Hollander, the Sterling Professor Emeritus of English, will serve as host for the event, which is free and open to the public.
The symposium, titled "The Twilight Zone: Contemporary Italian narrative between prose, poetry and art," will take place at 10 a.m. on Oct. 4 in the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. The featured speakers will be Arnaldo Colasanti, Enzo Siciliano and Raffaella Morselli. The discussion will be moderated by Paolo Valesio, professor of Italian and editor of Yale Italian Poetry. The symposium is free and open to the public, but registration is required. To register, send an e-mail to yip2@pantheon.yale.edu.
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