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june 23, 2015 - Premio Strega

The finalists of the 2015 edition of the Premio Strega: Lagioia, Covacich, Ferrante, Genovesi, Santagata

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It is closed "polling" for the first vote, the one designating the finalists of the 2015 edition of the Premio Strega, promoted by the Fondazione Maria and Goffredo Bellonci and Strega liqueur with the support of Roma Capitale, Unindustria - Union of Industrial and Company Frosinone Rome Latina Rieti Viterbo. As always Bellonci House was crowded with many of the Amici della domenica, the electorate of the prize, the heirs of a ritual that is repeated solemnly for almost seventy years. This year for the first time the jurors were asked to express three preferences. At the end of the counting of the votes came in the day today (403 of 460 votes cast, representing 87.6%; 2 blank votes), the president of the polling Francesco Piccolo, winner of the Premio Strega 2014, has described the performance of the votes received via computer in the previous weeks. The sum of the electronic votes and paper ballots outlined the quintet of authors and books finalists of the Strega Prize 2015, which are:

La Ferocia (Einaudi) Nicola Lagioia with 182 votes
La Sposa (Bompiani) Mauro Covacich with 157 votes
Storia della bambina perduta (E/O) by Elena Ferrante with 140 votes
Chi manda le onde (Mondadori) Fabio Genovesi with 123 votes
Come donna innamorata (Guanda) by Marco Santagata with 119 votes

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