Muricello Prize

The 12th edition of the Muricello Prize will be held on 12 and 13 July 2024 in San Mango D'Aquino. The six finalists for the Literary Prize are: Giuseppe Aloe with "Le cose di prima", published by Rubettino; Claudio Dionesalvi with "Lettere minuscole", published by the publishing house "Le pecore Nere"; Stefano Amato with "L'ultima candela di Kruje", for Neri Pozza; Marcostefano Gallo with "Scacciasogni", by Le pecore nere; Vins Gallico with "Il dio dello Stretto", published by Fandango; Laura Montuoro with "Dove finisce il mare", for the publishing house Book Tribù. The name of the winner will be announced on the first evening.

The Muricello Prize wants, on this occasion, to give recognition to the career of Achille Curcio, a European poet who has been able to recount not only his land, but man and modern society in all its forms.

The finalists were selected by the prize jury, made up of Rosalba Baldino, a journalist and writer from Cosenza, Letizia Cuzzola, a writer and editor from Reggio Calabria, Ippolita Luzzo, a writer and blogger from Lametina, Antonio Pagliuso, a writer from Lametina and editor-in-chief of the cultural magazine Glicine, Angelica Artemisia Pedatella, a writer, musician and theatrical author from Aiello Calabro, and Francesca Veltri, from Cosenza, a university lecturer and writer.

This year, the Literary Prize is enriched with some novelties: the inclusion of the winner of the previous edition in the jury for one year and the birth of 'Muricello Off', a new section of the event that aims to involve students from high schools in order to raise awareness of reading among young people. A first step has already been taken with the Carlo Rambaldi High School in Lamezia Terme. In the school year just gone, teacher Teresa Sinopoli coordinated the establishment of a jury of students who read and selected literary works and decreed the winner, a name that will be revealed on the first evening of the Award. A collaboration, this one, strongly desired by the creator of the Prize, Antonio Chieffallo, and the school headmistress Anna Primavera, who opened a season of synergy between the review and Calabrian schools. Part of the first evening will be dedicated to Franco Costabile, on the centenary of his birth, with the reading of some poems tracing his human and artistic path. This year's edition will be renewed within a proven format that makes the Muricello Prize an important cultural event in the regional panorama.