Ferdia Lennon’s novel Eroi senza gloria is on the Premio Gregor von Rezzori 2025 shortlist announced on Saturday, May 17, 2025.
Gregor von Rezzori was a novelist, memoirist, screenwriter, and author of radio plays, actor, journalist, visual artist, art critic, and art collector. He passed away in 1998, and his widow, Beatrice Monti della Corte, who chairs the Santa Maddalena Foundation, conceived the Premio Gregor von Rezzori (the Gregor von Rezzori Prize in English) in his honour. The prize awards the best work of foreign fiction translated into Italian and published in the preceding year. It is supported by the municipality of the City of Florence and is promoted by the MiBACT Center for Books and Reading and sponsored by the Tuscany Region. Some previous winners have been Hisham Matar, Jhumpa Lahiri, Maylis de Kerangal, and Maaza Mengiste.
The 2025 jury, comprised of Beatrice Monti della Corte, who is President, alongside Andrea Bajani, Alberto Manguel, Maylisde Kerangal, Colm Toibin, and 2021 winner Maaza Mengiste, announced the longlist on Wednesday, April 16, 2025. On Saturday, May 17, they announced the shortlist, which included Eroi senza gloria, Ferdia Lennon, translated by Valentina Daniele, published by NN Editore.
Ferdia Lennon, who was born in Dublin to an Irish mother and Libyan father, said, “It’s properly wonderful to have made the Premio Gregor Von Rezzori shortlist for a novel translated into Italian. Congratulations to the other authors and also a huge thanks to my publisher NN Editore and the translator Valentina Daniele.”
The winner will be announced in Florence, Italy, from June 10 – 13, 2025.
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