Maaza Mengiste’s Il Re Ombra (The Shadow King) which was translated by Anna Nadotti, has won the 2021 Premio Gregor von Rezzori 2021.
The prize is assigned by an international jury to the best work of foreign fiction translated in Italy and published in the preceding year.
The prize is named after Gregor von Rezzori, an Austrian-born, Romanian, German-language novelist, memoirist, screenwriter and author of radio plays, as well as an actor, journalist, visual artist, art critic and art collector. Gregor passed away in 1998 and his widow Beatrice Monti della Corte who chairs the Santa Maddalena Foundation conceived the Gregor von Rezzori Prize in English in his honour. The award is supported by the municipality of the City of Florence, Italy. It is promoted by the MiBACT Center for books and reading and sponsored by the Tuscany Region.
This year’s jury includes Beatrice Monti della Corte, Ernesto Ferrero (president), Andrea Bajani, Maylis de Kerangal, Andrea Landolfi, Alberto Manguel and Edmund White.
Previous winners have been Hisham Matar (Libya/USA), Jhumpa Lahiri (India/USA), and Maylis de Kerangal (France).
Congratulations Maaza Mengiste!
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