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Award History

AwardYearStatus
Premio Strega1982Winner

About the Author

Goffredo Parise (1929-1986) was an Italian novelist, journalist, and screenwriter whose debut novel Il ragazzo morto e le comete (1951) marked the start of a distinguished career; he achieved major success with works like Il prete bello (1954) and Il padrone (1965), for which he won the Viareggio Prize, and the Sillabari series, earning the Strega Prize in 1982 for Sillabario n. 2.

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