The writer Edith Bruck honored with Campiello achievement award

“An example of a passionate resistance to the horror of dictatorships and the fight for the defense of rights, Edith Bruck embodies a model of civil and intellectual commitment and a profile of great humanity”. With this motivation, the Campiello Foundation honored with an achievement award the writer and poet of Hungarian origin who, as a child, survived deportation and extermination camp, during the presentation event in Rome of the finalist authors of the 61st edition of the prestigious Literary Prize Campiello. Bruck, reads the motivation, was chosen “for her exemplary biographical and artistic parable, which makes her an exceptional witness of the European and Italian twentieth century and a courageous relay of its values in the present century”.
The Holocaust survivor, who has lived most of her life in Italy and writes in Italian, “crossed the borders between peoples and between languages of a Europe first torn apart and then reunited: through her work as a translator, she brought together words and verses from distant languages, and through her work as a writer in a language, Italian, not acquired at birth birth but adopted in adulthood, she has shown how blurred those boundaries can be”. Even the frontiers between the written word, theater, and cinema, adds the motivation, “were continually crossed by a voice that was always able to speak with delicacy and clarity”.