{"id":9164,"date":"2025-09-08T10:28:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T08:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fondazionemasi.com\/winners\/federica-manzon\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T18:10:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T17:10:46","slug":"federica-manzon","status":"publish","type":"piecodes_winners","link":"https:\/\/www.fondazionemasi.com\/en\/winners\/federica-manzon\/","title":{"rendered":"Federica Manzon"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"9164\" class=\"elementor elementor-9164 elementor-9078\" data-elementor-post-type=\"piecodes_winners\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-efa9dc9 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"efa9dc9\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d4ea7a0\" data-id=\"d4ea7a0\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6ff7d45 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6ff7d45\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Born in 1981 in Pordenone and now dividing her time between Milan and Trieste, where she took her degree in Philosophy, Federica Manzon won the Campiello Prize in 2024 with Alma, her fifth novel, in which the protagonist is \u2018forced\u2019 by her father\u2019s will to return to her hometown (it\u2019s not named, but it\u2019s obviously Trieste) and thus come to terms with her complicated relationship with her roots. In the novel, identity, memory and history (personal, family, of a borderland and of the conflicts in the nearby Balkans) are intertwined, and Trieste becomes a vantage point from which to try to understand who we are and where our home is. The writer argues that \u201croots are not where we were born or where our bloodline takes us back to; roots are where we feel we belong.\u201d Her passion for the world of books, which became her \u2018second home\u2019 early on as a girl, defines her career: from editor at Mondadori to working with the Scuola Holden in Turin and then with Pordenonelegge, to her current position as editorial director at Guanda.<\/p><p>The Trieste-born writer was awarded the<strong> Civilt\u00e0 Veneta Award<\/strong> for her literary work, which skilfully explores the tensions between identity, memory and belonging. 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