Dr Raffaello Palumbo Mosca, Research Fellow in the Department of Italian, has just won the prestigious International Tarquinia-Cardarelli Prize for his recent book entitled L’invenzione del vero [The Invention of Truth] (Gaffi Editore, 2014).
The Tarquinia-Cardarelli is a leading Italian literary award, founded in 1962 and named after the southern Italian city Tarquinia and author Vincenzo Cardarelli. Prizes are awarded in separate categories each year: Raffaello’s book won the ‘Opera prima di critica letteraria’ category, judged by Massimo Onofri, Filippo La Porta and Raffaele Manica.
L’invenzione del vero contributes to a long-running literary debate that has dominated the cultural pages of Italian press for some years: it is true that the novel has died? In celebrating the end of the genre, have we not lost our understanding of the object in question?
The prize ceremony will be held in Tarquinia on Sunday 1 June. For more details of the prize, please see the page (in Italian) here: www.premiotarquiniacardarelli.it
For more details on the book, please see the publisher’s page here:
www.gaffi.it/cgi-bin/front_end/libri?id=2542&autori=1