Born 1964 · Italy
Strega 2011 · Winner
Storia della mia gente
Edoardo Nesi · 46 when first published
Nonfiction · 163 pages · Autofiction, Politics
AI-generated summary:A textile entrepreneur from Prato tells how his family firm and his city's thriving industry were swept away by globalization, and what it means to belong to the first generation poorer than its parents.
Strega 2005 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Golden Age”
Edoardo Nesi · 40 when first published
Novel · 337 pages · Satire, Family
AI-generated summary:In 2010, amid the ruin of Italy's small textile industry, a bankrupt Prato industrialist learns that he is terminally ill, and launches into the last venture of his life: to have a child by artificial insemination with Caterina, a beautiful young woman in a psychiatric clinic.