Jewish stories from the island of Rhodes
among the winners of the Fiuggi Storia Prize

The names of the authors who won the eleventh edition of the Fiuggi Storia prize, created by the historian Piero Melograni and promoted by the Giuseppe Levi-Pelloni Foundation, have recently been announced. Among the winners is Marco Di Porto with his work Una voce sottile, a historical novel published by Giuntina, which focuses on the stories of the Jews on the island of Rhodes, Greece and the dramatic impact which the Shoah had on that ancient and rooted nucleus. A world that was reconstructed starting from the author’s grandfather’s story.
The winners of this edition also include Bruno Maida with I treni dell’accoglienza (Einaudi) and Gabriele Ranzato with La liberazione di Roma (Laterza), both awarded in the non-fiction category. For the section Biographies, Noemi Ghetti received recognition for the volume Gramsci e le donne (Donzelli). Also awarded for historical fiction, aside from Di Porto, is Graziella Monni, author of Gli amici di Emilio (Mondadori). The books Quello che non ti dicono by Mario Calabresi (Mondadori) and Hotel Nord America by Giacomo Mameli (Il Maestrale, Nuoro) received recognition for the category Diaries, Letters and Memoirs. The Fiuggi Storia Europa prize went to the British historian Mark Honigsbaum for his The Pandemic Century – A History of Global Contagion from the Spanish Flu to Covid-19 (Ponte alle Grazie, Florence).
The award for the category Multimedia went to the filmmaker Alberto Negrin and the actress Elena Sofia Ricci for the TV movie “Rita Levi Montalcini”, produced by Rai Fiction and Cosmo Productions EU.

Translated by Oyebuchi Lucia Leonard, student at Trieste University, intern at the newspaper office of the union of the Italian Jewish Communities – UCEI.