160 very young people will choose the best among the three books selected and presented in Milan on the occasion of the first edition of Campiello Junior, the new literary recognition born from the collaboration between Campiello Foundation and the Pirelli Foundation, with the idea of ​​spreading reading more and more among children. In the running for this premiere, strongly desired by the organizers of the award, Italian works of fiction and poetry written for children between 10 and 14 years. Eighty-one books admitted to the selection. Among these, in the course of a vote that took place in the Headquarters in Milan, the jury of the award chose A penguin in Trieste (Bompiani) by Chiara Carminati. The box of dreams (Science Editorial) by Anna Vivarelli-Guido Quarzo. I'm not going back tonight (Feltrinelli) by Antonella Sbuelz. These three finalist books will be submitted to the judgment of a popular jury made up of children of the last year of primary schools and of the three years of lower secondary schools.

A penguin in Trieste

Clare Carminati, from Udine, dedicated to writing poems, stories, theatrical texts for children and young people, tells the story of little Nicolò who has never met his dad, "the war is over and he has not returned". At the age of fifteen he left his city, Trieste, to embark on a motor ship bound for Africa in search of his father in a prison camp in Eritrea. A sea voyage that will take him "ashore, in unknown cities - Durban, Cape Town - where unknown languages ​​are spoken ", chasing, “Alone and stubborn, the trail that will lead him in front of a man marked by pain". A penguin in Trieste is a novel of growth and discovery of the world where there is also a place for a penguin who in the end, after a clandestine journey aboard the motor ship, will become the mascot of the city of Trieste.

The box of dreams

The box of dreams tells the story of the birth of cinema seen through the eyes of Marcel, the Lumiere brothers' apprentice gardener who becomes an expert projectionist. In the background, the love story of two teenagers: the talented and visionary Marcel and the rich Antoinette Monfort known as Nina. The first cinematographic experiments are intertwined with the adventures of the young man. And if the story is a fiction, all the news concerning the diffusion of the cinema are historically confirmed. And it is very true the wonder that this extraordinary invention aroused in those who had the good fortune to share it. Word of the two authors Anna Vivarelli and Guido Quarzo.

I'm not going back tonight

A story of friendship, love and humanity is the one that tells the meeting between Aziz and Mattia. I'm not going back tonight is the story of a casual nocturnal encounter between a boy who ran away from home and a little Afghan. Mattia welcomes Aziz to his secret refuge, helps him, takes care of him and listens to his story. Thus he discovers the true identity of Aziz, who is not at all who he seems. An unexpected ending… A novel also linked to current events, born from the pen of Anna Sbuelz, from Udine who studied in Trieste, Verona and Lausanne. With a passion for writing which, are his words, "It has accompanied me since I was a child".

Campiello junior tern finalist

Roberto Piumini, president of the Campiello Junior Prize jury, recalled that "Writing, publishing, promoting children's storytelling means providing ways of knowledge, affectivity, identity, imagination and purpose. This is not solved, as in the literature of the past, with the description of examples and models. O the threatening wisdom of exhortations. But with the gift of a rich language, which plays and invites, creatively and energetically, to the variety and possibility of the world ". The winner will be announced in May 2022 and celebrated in September during the Campiello 2022 awards ceremony.

Campiello Junior Award, the three finalist books selected last edit: 2021-12-11T15:00:00+01:00 da Cristina Campolonghi

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