Fois wins the 2024 Campiello Prize and dedicates the prize to Michela Murgia

"Writing is a very difficult profession"

"Writing this novel was like taking stock of everything, understanding where you stand, where you are, understanding that writing is a very difficult profession, that there is a difference between writers and people who publish and that there is so much to say, so much gratitude for this world", said Fois immediately after the proclamation.

Fois remembers Michela Murgia

The writer then addressed a thought to Michela Murgia, with whom he shares Sardinian origins, who passed away in 2023, at the age of 51: "Meanwhile, I want to thank a person who isn't there, but for me she is, who was a beautiful woman, far from livid, very resilient: her name is Michela Murgia".

The proclamation in the Great Hall of the Palazzo del Cinema in Venice

The proclamation of the Campiello Prize was held for the first time in the Sala Grande at the Palazzo del Cinema on the Lido of Venice. The votes cast were 282 out of 300 voters of the Popular Jury of Readers Anonymous.