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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The journal encourages submissions from a range of disciplines such as: philosophy, sociology, literary studies, cultural studies, critical theory, media studies, bioethics, medical ethics, anthropology, religious studies, disability studies, gender studies, queer studies, critical animal studies, environmental studies, and the visual arts.
Editor in Chief
Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, John Cabot University, Italy
Editorial Board
Karen Barad, University of California, Santa Cruz, United States
Russell Blackford, University of Newcastle, Australia
Rosi Braidotti, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Pierre Cassou-Noguès, Universite Paris-8, France
Mark Coeckelbergh, University of Vienna, Austria
Francesca Ferrando, New York University, United States
Luciano Floridi, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Steve Fuller, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
Katherine Hayles, Duke University, United States
James Hughes, University of Massachusetts, Boston, United States
Hye-Sook Jeon, Ewha Womans University, South Korea
Eduardo Kac, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, United States
Hideto Nakajima, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Julian Savulescu, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Susan Schneider, University of Connecticut, United States
Stelarc, Curtin University, Australia
Iain Thomson, University of New Mexico, United States
Gianni Vattimo, University of Turin, Italy
Kevin Warwick, Coventry University, United Kingdom
Wolfgang Welsch, University of Jena, Germany
Cary Wolfe, Rice University, United States