# The Strega Prize winners of the 2010s

The ten books that won the Strega Prize, Italy's most important literary award, from 2010 to 2019.

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- Jan 12, 2024 · Enrico Costa
- https://even.best/en/l/727/the-strega-prize-winners-of-the-2010s

## Top 10

1. **The Mussolini Canal — Antonio Pennacchi** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2010. A Venetian family in the Pontine Marshes reclaimed under Fascism.
2. **Inseparabili — Alessandro Piperno** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2012. Two Roman brothers and the friendly fire of memory.
3. **Resistere non serve a niente — Walter Siti** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2013. A broker of criminal finance in today's Rome.
4. **The Desire to Be Like Everyone — Francesco Piccolo** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2014. The political autobiography of a man of the left.
5. **The Catholic School — Edoardo Albinati** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2016. The Circeo massacre and a Catholic school in Rome.
6. **The Eight Mountains — Paolo Cognetti** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2017. A friendship born in the Aosta Valley; translated into dozens of languages.
7. **The Girl with the Leica — Helena Janeczek** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2018. Photographer Gerda Taro and the Spanish Civil War.
8. **M: Son of the Century — Antonio Scurati** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2019. Mussolini and the birth of Fascism, first volume of a saga.
9. **Story of My People — Edoardo Nesi** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — 2011. The crisis of the Prato textile industry told by a former manufacturer.
10. **Ferocity — Nicola Lagioia** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — 2015. A young woman's death and a wealthy family from Apulia.

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