Last week Helena Janeczek won the Strega Prize, one of the most important literary prizes in Italy.
For the first time in fifteen years, after Melania Mazzucco with her novel Vita, a woman wins the prize. Janeczek, born and raised in Germany, won with her La ragazza con la Leica, a nonfiction work about Gerda Taro, the photographer who died in 1937 at 27 while describing the violence of the Spanish Civil War.
The book will be soon available in the Library collection, and you can read about the prize and the previous winners in the Literary Awards guide prepared by the library staff.
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