# The Strega Prize winners of the 1980s

The ten books that won the Strega Prize from 1980 to 1989, with The Name of the Rose in 1981.

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- Oct 31, 2023 · Enrico Costa
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## Top 10

1. **La vita ingenua — Vittorio Gorresio** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1980. A journalist's memoirs.
2. **The Name of the Rose — Umberto Eco** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1981. Murders in an abbey in 1327; a worldwide best-seller.
3. **Night's Lies — Gesualdo Bufalino** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1988. Four condemned men tell stories on their last night.
4. **La grande sera — Giuseppe Pontiggia** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1989. A man disappears and those who knew him wonder why.
5. **Abecedary — Goffredo Parise** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1982. Short stories arranged alphabetically by feeling.
6. **Il Natale del 1833 — Mario Pomilio** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1983. Manzoni's grief at his wife's death.
7. **Tolstoy — Pietro Citati** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1984. A literary biography of the Russian writer.
8. **The Army of Lost Rivers — Carlo Sgorlon** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1985. Cossacks in Friuli at the end of the war.
9. **Private Renaissance — Maria Bellonci** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1986. Isabella d'Este tells her own story.
10. **Le isole del paradiso — Stanislao Nievo** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1987. A voyage to the Pacific islands.

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