“Fill the silence of death with music”: the fifth edition of the Wondy Prize for Resilient Literature began with the words of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and the desire to see an end to the ongoing war was certainly the evening’s main theme.
From the opening performance by Yevheniya Lysohor, a pianist from Kiev, to the connection from the front with war correspondent Francesca Mannocchi, author of White is the Colour of Damage, the novel that won the main prize awarded by the jury
technical jury chaired by Umberto Ambrosoli.