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Strega Prize Ragazze e Ragazzi 2023

The first selection of the 6+, 8+ and 11+ competition categories was announced on May 18, 2023. Prizes for each category will be awarded in December by a jury of 253 primary and secondary schools in Italy and abroad.

6+ CATEGORY

  1. Pierdomenico Baccalario, L’investigatto e lo scassinatoro, HarperCollins Italia, illustrated by Alessandro Parodi.
  2. Matthew Cordell, Ugo e Poppy. Così diversi, così amici!, Terre di Mezzo, translated by Sara Ragusa.
  3. Luigi Dal Cin, Nuvole a dondolo, Einaudi Ragazzi, illustrated by Serena Mabilia.
  4. Ulrich Hub, L’anatra zoppa e la gallina cieca, Rizzoli, illustrated by Jörg Mühle, translated by Bérénice Capatti.
  5. Claire Lebourg, Le vacanze di Bris, Babalibri, translated by Mario Sala Gallini.
  6. Silvia Vecchini, Jole, Topipittori, illustrated by Arianna Vairo. 

8+ CATEGORY

  1. Alice Butaud, Le bambine di solito non salgono così in alto, La Nuova Frontiera Junior, illustrato da François Ravard, translated by Silvia Turato.
  2. Nicola Cinquetti, L’estate balena, Bompiani. 
  3. Nizrana Farook, La ragazza che rubò un elefante, Emons Edizioni, illustrated by David Dean, translated by Marcella Majnoni. 
  4. Inés Garland, Lilo, uovonero, illustrato da Maite Mutuberria, translated by Francesco Ferrucci.
  5. Lisa Krusche, L'universo è maledettamente grande e supermistico, Edizioni San Paolo, translated by Anna Patrucco Becchi.
  6. Sanne Rooseboom, Il ministero delle Soluzioni, Terre di Mezzo, illustrated by Mark Janssen, translated by Laura Pignatti.
  7. Tiziana Roversi, Fate la pace! San Francesco in Piazza Maggiore, Minerva Edizioni, illustrated by Angelica Stefanelli.
  8. Anna Taraska, Storia di punto ed errore, Mondadori, illustrato da Daria Solak, translated by Raffaella Belletti. 
  9. Bart Moeyaert, Morris, Sinnos, illustrato da Sebastiaan Van Doninck, translated by Laura Pignatti. 

11+ CATEGORY

 

  1. Anne Becker, La più bella nuotata della mia vita, uovonero, translated by Claudia Valentini.
  2. Rachelle Delaney, Le stelle secondo Clara, Terre di Mezzo, translated by Alice Casarini.
  3. Christopher Edge, 12 minuti a mezzanotte, Edicart, translated by Michela Guardigli.
  4. Dan Gemeinhart, L’imprevedibile viaggio di Coyote Sunrise, EDT-Giralangolo, translated by Aurelia Martelli.
  5. Eirlys Hunter, La gara dei cartografi, La Nuova Frontiera Junior, illustrated by Kirstin Slade, translated by Francesca Novajra.
  6. Cilla Jackert, A nessuno piace Jonna, Camelozampa, translated by Samanta Katarina Milton Knowles.
  7. Sharna Jackson, High Rise Mystery. Un'estate in giallo per le sorelle detective, Emons Edizioni, translated by Federico Taibi.
  8. Jenny Jägerfeld, La mia morte gloriosa col botto, Iperborea, translated by Laura Cangemi.
  9. Amelia Mellor, La magica libreria delle meraviglie, Edizioni EL, translated by Federica Merati.
  10. Gonzalo Moure, Parole di Caramello, Kalandraka, illustrated by Maria Giròn, translated by Francesco Ferrucci.
  11. Eva Serena Pavan, Scambio scuola, Mimebù, illustrated by Sara Not.
  12. Sarah Turoche-Dromery, Sam de Bergerac, Pension Lepic, illustrated by Tom Schamp, translated by Angela Nanetti.

The selection was made from the 120 books nominated by publishers: 30 for the 6+ category, 37 for the 8+ category and 53 for the 11+ category. The Scientific Committee will now select the finalist three books for each category. The books will be sent for reading to the jurors next fall.

The Premio Strega Ragazze e Ragazzi is sponsored by the Fondazione Maria e Goffredo Bellonci and Strega Alberti Benevento, organisers of the Premio Strega, together with the Centro per il libro e la lettura and BolognaFiere-Bologna Children's Book Fair in partnership with BPER Banca and IBS.it La Feltrinelli. 

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Best debut book award

It is Lisa Krusche, author of  L'universo è dannatamente grande e supermistico - Das Universum ist verdammt groß und supermystisch - The universe is bloody big and super mystical (Edizioni San Paolo), the winner of the Strega Ragazze e Ragazzi Award, best debut book 2023 category.
The winner received a plaque and a cash prize offered by Strega Alberti Benevento.
The award to translator Anna Patrucco Becchi is offered by BolognaFiere.
 
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Best storytelling in pictures

The Strega Prize Ragazze e Ragazzi Committee has announced the winner of the second edition of the award to acknowledge the best storytelling in pictures: Rebecca Dautremer, Un attimo soltanto [Une toute petite seconde], translation by Francesca Mazzurana (published by Rizzoli).

The committee gave the following explanation for its choice: Visually surprising, extraordinarily rich in detail, life and interwoven micro-narratives in which to lose oneself, Un attimo soltanto is a unique and disorientating work of publishing, a polyphonic narrative of dazzling beauty that offers an immensely enjoyable pause in which the pleasures of viewing the images and listening to the author’s measured words achieve a dynamic point of balance.

From a total of 33 titles proposed by the publishers, the Committee shortlisted the works: Nora Dåsnes, Nel mio cuore tempest [Ti kniver i hjertet], translation by Eva Valvo (Mondadori); Marion Kadi, Il riflesso di Harriet [Les Reflets d’Hariett], translation by Eleonora Armaroli (Terre di Mezzo); Malin Kivelä, Martin Glaz Serup, Se incontri un orso [Om du möter en björn], illustrations by Linda Bondestam, translation by Maria Valeria D’Avino (Iperborea).

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The winner was announced at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2023, at the Illustrators Café, the ideal stage for an award that acknowledges the importance of images. The ceremony, which was presented by Marcella Terrusi, included speeches from the shortlisted authors (in-person and via video link) as well as Elena Pasoli (Exhibition Manager BolognaFiere), Stefano Petrocchi (Director of the Fondazione Maria e Goffredo Bellonci), Marino Sinibaldi (President of the Centre for Books and Reading) and  Marco Maria Cerbo (Responsible for Italian training and education system in the world at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs). Also in attendance were the winning authors from the previous edition of the award: Mara Cerri and Antonia Murgo.
The award ceremony also included speeches from members of the prize committee Maria Greco, Martino Negri and Ilaria Tagliaferri.

The next appointment of the Strega Prize Ragazze e Ragazzi will take place in May at the Turin International Book Fair (Salone Internazionale del Libro di Torino), which will see the announcement of the longlist for the competition categories 6+, 8+, 11+, selected based on the books proposed by publishers, as well as the announcement of the winner of the Best Debut Book category.
The Strega Prize Ragazze e Ragazzi is promoted by the Fondazione Maria e Goffredo Bellonci and Strega Alberti Benevento, the organisers of the Strega Prize, together with the Centre for Books and Reading and BolognaFiere-Bologna Children’s Book Fair in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI) and the Sistema della Formazione Italiana nel Mondo network of Italian cultural institutions around the world, BPER Banca and IBS.it.