The Strega Prize winners of the 1980s
The top 3 according to 4 votes from people: La vita ingenua — Vittorio Gorresio · The Name of the Rose — Umberto Eco · Night's Lies — Gesualdo Bufalino. (Updated Oct 31, 2023.)
The ten books that won the Strega Prize from 1980 to 1989, with The Name of the Rose in 1981.
Automatically translated (original in Italiano). See the original
Top 10
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1
La vita ingenua — Vittorio Gorresio
1980. A journalist's memoirs.
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The Name of the Rose — Umberto Eco
1981. Murders in an abbey in 1327; a worldwide best-seller.
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3
Night's Lies — Gesualdo Bufalino
1988. Four condemned men tell stories on their last night.
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La grande sera — Giuseppe Pontiggia
1989. A man disappears and those who knew him wonder why.
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Abecedary — Goffredo Parise
1982. Short stories arranged alphabetically by feeling.
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Il Natale del 1833 — Mario Pomilio
1983. Manzoni's grief at his wife's death.
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Tolstoy — Pietro Citati
1984. A literary biography of the Russian writer.
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The Army of Lost Rivers — Carlo Sgorlon
1985. Cossacks in Friuli at the end of the war.
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9
Private Renaissance — Maria Bellonci
1986. Isabella d'Este tells her own story.
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Le isole del paradiso — Stanislao Nievo
1987. A voyage to the Pacific islands.
How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.
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Comments (3)
Le menzogne della notte di Bufalino, un capolavoro di lingua.
Il nome della rosa nel 1981, che annata.
Rinascimento privato della Bellonci, bellissimo.