Camaiore Prize

A few weeks ago, I posted about Migritude being shortlisted for Italy's Premio Lettarario Camaiore.

The four finalists for the Premio Internazionale were:

Shailja Patel MIGRITUDE (Lietocolle)
Michalis Pieris METAMORFOSI DI CITTA’ (Donzelli)
Bozidar Stanisic LA CHIAVE NELLA MANO (Campanotto)
Birgitta Trotzig NEL FIUME DI LUCE (Mondadori)

I got an email from my publisher today telling me the jury awarded the prize to Nel Fiume di Luce by Birgitta Trotzig. Trotzig is a Swedish poet who happens to be Chair Number Six of the Swedish Academy , aka Nobel Prize Jury.

So the disappointment dissipated fairly quickly in a wave of hilarious wonder.

I was a finalist
alongside a poet
who votes
on the Nobel Literature Prize.