Diego De Silva wins the Viareggio-Repaci Prize for fiction.

It's Diego De Silva the winner of the 96th edition of the literary prize Viareggio-Rèpaci for the narrative category with 'The titles of tail end of a life together' (Einaudi). To announce this evening in Piazza Mazzini, De Silva's victory was the president of the jury Paolo Mieli who awarded the author the recognition. "I was a finalist at the Viareggio-Rèpaci prize in 2001 debut. Today, 25 years and 14 books later, I could say that I don't I feel the emotions I used to, but it's not like that - the words of De Silva -. Winning the Viareggio award for its history and the his prestige, and for that bond with that shy 25 year old me It does, it gives me emotion, it certainly does. Also because 'The titles of the tail end of a life together', among all the books I have written, it is perhaps the one most full of experience". "The Viareggio-Rèpaci prize - said Mieli - continues to to be a meeting place between generations, languages and visions of the world. This is its greatest value that we are committed to to guard and renew every year as we move towards the century. This edition also stood out for its very high level of the works in competition, which were able to combine depth of thought, stylistic originality and a strong bond with the urgencies of our time." During the award ceremony they were The other finalists for the narrative category were also protagonists - Dario Buzzolan ('Shack and Puppets', Mondadori) and Massimiliano Governments ('Salgari's great-grandson', Baldini and Castoldi) - beyond to the winners Mariangela Gualtieri, winner for poetry with 'Ruvido umano' (Einaudi) and Ernesto Galli della Loggia who is won the prize for non-fiction with 'A capital for Italy' (Il Mulino). And also the special Paulina awards Spiechowicz (International Award), Alessandra Sardoni (International Award) Journalistic) and Sofia Assante (First Work Award).