Our publishing houses are at the 69th Frankfurt Book Fair , scheduled from 11 to 15 October.
This is the most important European event and among the most prestigious in the world.
Mondadori, Rizzoli, Einaudi, Sperling & Kupfer and Piemme are in Hall 5.0, Stand C56.
With 133 votes from the popular jury, Donatella Di Pietrantonio’s novel L’ Arminuta (Einaudi) wins the 55th edition of the Campiello Prize.
As on other occasions, the readers’ opinion has reversed the shortlist positions decreed by the technical jury, chaired this year by Ottavia Piccolo, of the prize for fiction promoted by Confindustria Veneto.
The novel by Donatella Di Pietrantonio has won over the works of Stefano Massini (Qualcosa sui Lehman, Mondadori, 99 votes), Mauro Covacich (La città interiore, La Nave di Teseo, 25 votes), Alessandra Sarchi (La notte ha la mia voce, Einaudi, 13 votes) and Laura Pugno (La ragazza selvaggia, Marsilio, 12 votes).
On Thursday 6 July, in the captivating space of the Ninfeo of the Villa Giulia in Rome, Paolo Cognetti won the 71st Premio Strega with his nove Le otto montagne (The Eight Mountains). The author, who also won the 4th edition of the Premio Strega Giovani 2017, an award for young writers, clearly moved and delighted by this prestigious recognition, dedicated the prize to the mountains, “because it’s an area that has been abandoned, forgotten and destroyed, often by the city, and I decided that I wanted to write about that. I have tried to be a sort of spokesman, a go-between, for the mountains, the plain and the city, that all seem very far away. I also try to write these stories for people who don’t know the mountains and live too far away from them, trying, in some way, to save the world I live in.” “Being here,” he added, “is like a dream come true, not so much a dream of winning a prize, as being a writer and being able to live on my work.”
From the beginning, Le otto montagne has been a literary phenomenon, something that was made clear by the competition among the publishers who wanted to publish it around the world. In fact, the novel has already been translated into more than 30 languages.
Le otto montagne tells the story of Pietro, a solitary and somewhat argumentative city boy, and his relationship with his parents, his friend Bruno and, above all, with the mountains. From the stage of the Strega prize the author reminded the audience that nature is a word used by people who live in cities.”
In their lean, hard and wild beauty, the mountains leave a permanent mark on the soul, an imprint on those who are born there and those who love them. It becomes a category of the spirit, and even when one leaves, in search of a more comfortable and easier place, you can never really break away. All it takes is a sound, a smell, and you are sucked straight back in. This is what happens to the characters in the novel. They just can’t manage without, the come and go, but never really leave.
It is a story of “fathers and sons, of abandoning civilisations, of the freedom of living wild. I have always kept with me the memory of the great happiness I experienced as a boy in the woods. Whatever destiny is, it lives in the mountains we have above our heads.” (Paolo Cognetti).
Our publishing houses are at the 68th Frankfurt Book Fair , scheduled from 19 to 23 October.
This is the most important European event and among the most prestigious in the world.
Mondadori, Rizzoli, Einaudi, Sperling & Kupfer and Piemme are in Hall 5.0, Stand D25: a new space, designed to enhance all of our editorial brands, together at the Fair for the first time.
Frankfurt Book Fair - Mondadori Group (Hall 5.0, stand D25)
Frankfurt Book Fair - Mondadori Group (Hall 5.0, stand D25)
Frankfurt Book Fair - Mondadori Group (Hall 5.0, stand D25)
Frankfurt Book Fair - Mondadori Group (Hall 5.0, stand D25)
Frankfurt Book Fair - Mondadori Group (Hall 5.0, stand D25)
Frankfurt Book Fair - Mondadori Group (Hall 5.0, stand D25)
Frankfurt Book Fair - Mondadori Group (Hall 5.0, stand D25)
Frankfurt Book Fair - Mondadori Group (Hall 5.0, stand D25)
Frankfurt Book Fair - Mondadori Group (Hall 5.0, stand D25)
After the international bestseller The Name od God is Mercy, published in 100 countries and translated in 34 languages, expert of Vatican affairs Andrea Tornielli offers an extraordinary travel tale from the very voice of Pope Francis, plus an exclusive interview to the Holy Father.
The book, entitled Journeying (Piemme), will hit bookstores in Italy starting from January 2017 and it is already catching the attention of the publishers worldwide.