Adnkronos Rome, May 17 (Adnkronos) – The four winners of the literary competition 'A/R Andata e racconto. Viaggiare con leggerezza: istruzioni per l'uso' organized by the FS Group and the Turin International Book Fair and dedicated to new writers have been awarded. The ceremony took place this morning at the Turin Book Fair in the presence of Annalena Benini and Silvio Viale, director and president of the Turin International Book Fair, Alessandra Calise, Head of Communications and External Relations of the FS Group and the jury composed of the writers Guido Catalano, Antonella Lattanzi, Lorenza Pieri, Matteo Nucci, Nadeesha Uyangoda, Simona Vinci.
The writers were awarded today by Alessandra Calise, Head of Communications and External Relations of the FS Group, who added: "The train is a narrative space par excellence. 'A/R Andata e racconto' is an initiative that combines the FS Group's vocation for travel and the power of writing as a tool for expression and knowledge. We are proud to offer, together with the Turin International Book Fair, a concrete opportunity to emerging authors, supporting a culture of storytelling that is born from travel and opens to the future. Because traveling - by train as in writing - means nurturing an ever-new view of the world, and the FS Group is always the driving force behind this transformation". The 'A/R Andata e Racconto' competition, now in its third edition, is dedicated this year to the lightness that in literature represents a response to the complexity of the times. It is the possibility, outlined by Italo Calvino, of 'gliding over things from above, without having millstones on your heart'. Travelling lightly towards real places or interior landscapes, towards self-knowledge and the encounter with the Other, while watching the world pass by from the window of a train, leaving free space for the imagination.
The jury awarded first place to 'Mare More' by Maurizia Di Stefano, the story of a happy childhood in Belarus, interrupted by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster that forces the protagonist to leave her homeland for Italy, where she can recover her health, far from radiation and discover, on the journey, a possible happiness. 'Il Segnalibro' by Franco Revello won second place, retracing the life of a leaf that finds its place between the pages of other people's stories; with a tie for third place, Riccardo Grasso with 'Caporale Express' retraces the drama of exploitation and gangmastering in Italian agricultural fields, while Edoardo Maresca with 'L'uomo in fuga o L'inquietudine umana' returns to the famous escape with which Tolstoy's life ended. An initial technical commission, appointed by the Turin International Book Fair, selected the 500 finalist stories from 15 stories submitted, which were then passed to the final Jury to designate the winners. The four stories will be published later this year in an anthology together with those of the jury members, while the finalists of the competition received a Trenitalia gift card.
'New travel narratives', because there are infinite ways to tell the story of travel, not only through the expressive architecture of literature, but also with the evocative images of photography or the enveloping voice of a podcast that recalls distant places. An in-depth analysis that was discussed - on the sidelines of the literary competition awards ceremony - with Ciro Fusco, Ansa photojournalist, Bruno Pellegrini, CEO & founder of Loquis, Alessandra Calise, Head of Communications and External Relations of FS, together with the deputy director of Sky TG24, Omar Schillaci. A moment of reflection on the numerous possibilities of narration, from traditional forms of writing to more modern and contemporary ones such as podcasts or the most advanced photography techniques.