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July 11, 2021
Sandro Veronesi is one of the three finalists of the 27th edition of the Prix Jean Monnet de Littérature européenne: he is competing with "Il colibrì" (published in Italy by La nave di Teseo), with which he won his second Strega Prize in 2020, in translation from Italian by Dominique Vittoz for the French publishing house Grasset.
The triad of the Jean Monnet Prize for European Literature is completed with the French writer Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud with "A cause de l'éternité" (Grasset) and the Irish Donal Ryan with "Par une mer Bassi et tranquille" (Albin Michel , translated from English by Marie Hermet).
The announcement of the winner will take place next September. The handover ceremony will take place on November 20 in Cognac (France). Chaired by Gérard de Cortanze, the jury of the Prix Jean Monnet de littérature européenne brings together the historian Joel Schmidt, the journalist Lieven Taillie, the writer Virgile Tanase, the manager Françoise Dion, the publisher Jean Baptiste Baronian, the literary critic Fabio Gambaro, the honorary president of the International Society of Friends of Michel de Montaigne Madeleine Lazard, the journalist Patricia Martin and the translator Gérard Meudal.