Strega Prize

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Strega Prize, 77 Books

The Strega Prize is the most important Italian literary award. It has been awarded annually since 1947 for the best work of prose fiction written in the Italian language by an author of any nationality and first published between 1 March of the previous year and 28/29 February.

This list is a yearly book award, and was added to this site almost 2 years ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
12185 The Short Cut Ennio Flaiano 1947 Italian Unknown
13818 Villa Tarantola Vincenzo Cardarelli 1948 Italian Unknown
13818 La Memoria Giambattista Angioletti 1939 Italian Unknown
1568 The Beautiful Summer Cesare Pavese 1949 Italian Italian
13818 Quasi Una Vita Corrado Alvaro 1950 Italian Italian
12199 I Racconti Alberto Moravia 1952 Italian Italian
13818 The Faithful Lover Massimo Bontempelli 1953 Italian Italian
13818 The Capri Letters Mario Soldati 1954 Italian Italian
13818 Un Gatto Attraversa La Strada Giovanni Comisso 1955 Italian Italian
13818 Within The Walls Giorgio Bassani 1956 Italian Italian
1532 Arturo's Island Elsa Morante 1957 Italian Italian
3119 Sessanta Racconti Dino Buzzati 1958 Italian Italian
56 The Leopard Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa 1958 Italian Italian
1437 Bébo's Girl Carlo Cassola 1960 Italian Italian
3120 The Mortal Wound Raffaele La Capria 1961 Italian Italian
13818 Il Clandestino Mario Tobino 1962 Italian Italian
525 Family Sayings Natalia Ginzburg 1963 Italian Italian
13818 L'ombra Delle Colline Giovanni Arpino 1964 Italian Italian
13818 The Worldwide Machine Paolo Volponi 1965 Italian Unknown
13818 A Spiral Of Mist Michele Prisco 1966 Italian Italian
13818 Poveri E Semplici Anna Maria Ortese 1967 Italian Italian
13818 L'occhio Del Gatto Alberto Bevilacqua 1968 Italian Italian
4126 Le Parole Tra Noi Leggere Lalla Romano 1969 Italian Italian
13818 Le stelle fredde Guido Piovene 1952 Italian Italian
13818 La Spiaggia D'oro Raffaello Brignetti 1971 Italian Italian
13818 The Forests Of Norbio Giuseppe Dessì 1965 Italian Italian
13818 Allegri, Gioventù Manlio Cancogni 1959 Italian Italian
13818 La Morte Del Fiume Guglielmo Petroni 1958 Italian Italian
13818 A Caso Tommaso Landolfi 1975 Italian Italian
13818 Le Quattro Ragazze Wieselberger Fausta Cialente 1976 Italian Italian
13818 La Miglior Vita Fulvio Tomizza 1977 Italian Italian
12201 Memorial Ferdinando Camon 1983 Italian Italian
3005 The Monkey's Wrench Primo Levi 1978 Italian Italian
13818 La Vita Ingenua Vittorio Gorresio 1956 Italian Unknown
114 The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco 1980 Italian Italian
13818 Solitudes Goffredo Parise 1984 Italian Italian
13818 Il Natale Del 1833 Mario Pomilio 1983 Italian Italian
13818 Tolstoy Pietro Citati 1986 Italian Italian
13818 Army Of The Lost Rivers Carlo Sgorlon 1985 Italian Italian
4072 Private Renaissance Maria Bellonci 1985 Italian Italian
13818 Le Isole Del Paradiso Stanislao Nievo 1996 Italian Italian
13818 Night's Lies Gesualdo Bufalino 1988 Italian Italian
13818 La Grande Sera Giuseppe Pontiggia 1987 Italian Italian
5589 The Chimera Sebastiano Vassalli 1990 Italian Italian
13818 La Strada Per Roma Paolo Volponi 1992 Italian Italian
13818 Nottetempo, Casa Per Casa Vincenzo Consolo 1992 Italian Italian
12201 Ninfa Plebea Domenico Rea 1992 Italian Italian
13818 La Casa Del Padre Giorgio Montefoschi 1994 Italian Italian
13818 Passaggio In Ombra Mariateresa Di Lascia 1995 Italian Italian
13818 Bella Vita E Guerre Altrui Di Mr. Pyle, Gentiluomo Alessandro Barbero 1995 Italian Italian
13818 Microcosms Claudio Magris 1997 Italian Italian
13818 I Bei Momenti Enzo Siciliano 1997 Italian Italian
13818 Darkness Dacia Maraini 1995 Italian Italian
13818 N. Ernesto Ferrero 2000 Italian Italian
12201 The House on Via Gemito Domenico Starnone 2000 Italian Italian
13818 Don't Move Margaret Mazzantini 2001 Italian Italian
13818 Vita Melania Mazzucco 2003 Italian Italian
13818 Il Dolore Perfetto Ugo Riccarelli 2004 Italian Italian
13818 Il Viaggiatore Notturno Maurizio Maggiani 2005 Italian Italian
10221 Quiet Chaos Sandro Veronesi 2005 Italian Italian
13818 As God Commands Niccolò Ammaniti 2006 Italian Italian
12201 The Solitude Of Prime Numbers Paolo Giordano 2008 Italian Italian
13818 Stabat Mater Tiziano Scarpa 2008 Italian Italian
13818 The Mussolini Canal Antonio Pennacchi 2010 Italian Italian
13818 Story Of My People Edoardo Nesi 2011 Italian Italian
13818 Inseparabili Alessandro Piperno 2012 Italian Italian
13818 Resistere Non Serve A Niente Walter Siti 2012 Italian Italian
13818 Il Desiderio Di Essere Come Tutti Francesco Piccolo 2013 Italian Italian
13818 Ferocity Nicola Lagioia 2014 Italian Italian
13818 The Catholic School Edoardo Albinati 2016 Italian Italian
13818 The Eight Mountains Paolo Cognetti 2016 Italian Italian
13818 The Girl With The Leica Helena Janeczek 2017 Italian Italian
13818 M Antonio Scurati 2018 Italian Italian
13818 The Hummingbird Sandro Veronesi 2019 Italian Italian
13818 Due Vite Emanuele Trevi 2020 Italian Italian
13818 Spatriati Mario Desiati 2021 Italian Italian
13818 Come D'aria Ada D'Adamo 2023 Italian Italian