Daniele Mencarelli

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Biography

Daniele Mencarelli (Rome 1974) is a poet and novelist. His latest collection, published in 2019, is Tempo Circolare (collected poems 2019-1997. His first novel La casa degli sguardi, Mondadori (Volponi prize, Severino Cesari first work prize, John Fante first work prize) is from 2018. Tutto chiede salvezza, his second novel, was released in 2020 and won the Strega Giovani Award. Sempre tornare closes an ideal autobiographical trilogy that began with La casa degli sguardi. He collaborates with newspapers and magazines, writing about culture and society.

Nominated book : Sempre tornare (Always return)

Summary

“It is the summer of 1991, Daniele is seventeen and this is his first vacation alone with friends. Two weeks away from home, to be enjoyed to the fullest among beaches, discos, alcohol and girls. But there is something he hasn’t come to terms with: himself. A small inconvenience on the night of August 15th is enough for Daniele to decide to leave the group and continue the journey on foot, alone, from the Riviera Romagnola towards Rome.

He will make all sorts of encounters: people who are worn out by loneliness but still capable of leaps of humanity, others who look over an abyss of madness, people defeated by life, or incurable bullies. And he will meet love, in Emma’s blue eyes. But above all Daniele will meet himself, in an intense inner dialogue. He unceasingly interprets and questions everything that happens to him, with the urgency to devour the world typical of a seventeen years old, craving to understand everything and, above all, himself.”

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Related publications

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Special publications
2023