2000

This year saw Ryzard Kapuscinski receive well-deserved recognition. Ebano, his magnificent reportage on Africa, won many prizes, including the International Viareggio-Versilia Prize, ez-aequo with Kevin Bales, I nuovi schiavi, an impassioned and detailed testimony to the role of "human goods" in the global economy. Sempre nel posto sbagliato is an extremely lucid autobiography of Edward W. Said, one of the outstanding personalities in the contemporary cultural panorama.

Italian fiction saw the publication of Via Gemito by Domenico Starnone. A film by Gabriele Salvatores, Denti, takes it name from another of Domenico Starnone's novels. Another publication was Stefano Benni's latest novel, Spiriti, ("They arrive and nothing will ever be the same as before..."). A newcomer to fiction, Silvia Di Natale, won the Bagutta Prize with her novel Kuraj.

J.G. Ballard, for thirty years an avantgarde writer of English fiction, entered the ranks of Feltrinelli's foreign fiction with Super-Cannes. Haruki Murakami's latest book, Al sud del confine, a ovest del mondo, and also the Spanish writer, David Trueba's kaleidoscopic Quattro amici. The new series "Senior Service Books" published Inge Fotoreporter, a collection of photographs taken by Inge Feltrinelli with an introduction by Natalia Aspesi.