Andrea Bajani wins the 2025 Strega Prize

Andrea Bajani is the winner of the Strega Prize 2025 with the novel L'anniversario (Feltrinelli) which had 187 votes. In second place Elisabetta Rasy with Perduto è questo mare (Rizzoli), 133 votes and in third place Nadia Terranova with Quello che so of you (Guanda), 117 votes. Fourth Paolo Nori with I Close the Door and I scream (Mondadori), 103 votes and fifth Michele Ruol with Inventory of what remains after the forest burns (TerraRossa), 99 votes. The total number of votes cast is 646, equal to 92% of the entitled. The polling station will be chaired by Donatella Di Pietrantonio, winner of the 2024 edition.