Donatella Di Pietrantonio wins Strega Giovani

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 4 - Donatella Di Pietrantonio on Tuesday won the Strega Giovani Prize, the version of Italy's top literary competition judged by teenagers between the ages of 16 and 18 from over 100 secondary schools in Italy and abroad.
    Abruzzo-born Di Pietrantonio, 62, won with L'Età Fragile (The Fragile Age).
    The writer is best known for her novels My Mother is a River and A Girl Returned.
    The winner of the 11th edition of the prize was announced at the Tor Bella Monaca Theatre on the outskirts of Rome, the first stage of the new Fondazione Bellonci project 'Storie di Periferia. Bringing the suburbs back to the centre of history'.
    (ANSA).