Donatella Di Pietrantonio (Arsita, 1962) won in 2024 with L'età fragile, a novel about the relationship between a mother and her 20-year-old daughter who were forced to live together during the Covid-19 lockdown and whose lives are also linked by some tragic events in their local community from decades before.
In the video below, the announcement is followed by a detailed presentation of the winning novel (playback starts at 7:31):
The 2024 prize went to Neige Sinno (Vars, France, 1977) for her thinly-veiled autobiographical novel, Triste tigre (lit. "Sad tiger", 2023, Italian translation: Triste tigre, tr. Luciana Cisbani), which recounts the repeated sexual abuse suffered by the author from age 7 to 14 from her stepfather and the author's decision to bring the abuser to trial years later.
The Premio Strega was launched in Rome in 1947 by writers Goffredo e Maria Bellonci (with the contribution of Guido Alberti, manufacturer of Strega liquor from which the prize took its name) to revitalize the cultural life of the country after the devastation of World War II.
Through the decades, the winning titles have aimed at widening in the Italian reading public the perception and consciousness of changes occurring in the country in terms of economy, culture and society.