The European Parliament has rarely seen so much excitement underpinned by heavy security.
The occasion was the awarding of the 2010 Europe Book Prize to
Italy’s anti-mafia writer Roberto Saviano for his non-fiction work
“Beauty and the Inferno”.
Much of Saviano’s mystique revolves around the fact that he has
lived under police protection since his 2006 mafia exposé, “Gomorrah”.
His latest offering tells of his time in hiding.
euronews reporter Johannes Bahrke said that despite notable writers
being on the shortlist, the limelight fell on Roberto Saviano. But the
jury of 12 journalists also had a fiction prize to award and that went
to Finland’s Sofi Oksanen.
Her book “Purge” is a family drama set in the Soviet occupation of Estonia.
Both works competed with 90 entries for the prize which is awarded to promote European cultural values.
From: Euronews
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