2° concorso nazionale "La parola ritrovata"
Award ceremony: Ozegna (TO), 27th May 2023
Short story "Parole date, parole taciute" (Promises and unspoken words)
ranked number 3 (actually joint for second)
Concorso Nazionale G.G. Belli - XXIII Edizione
15th December 2011
Short story: Prima che venga il giiorno (Before Daybreak)
2nd prize for the section "Pubblicazione"
Premio "Mario Dell'Arco" XVI Edition
June 2010
Short story: Luigi Stocchi, "professore"
2nd prize for the section "Pubblicazioni"
Premio "AlberoAndronico"
2010
Short story: Tu, campionessa (You, a Champion)
2nd prize for the section: "racconto sportivo" (sports story)
"Second position: Francesca Pratesi, born in Olevano Romano but living in Rome; who wrote Tu, campionessa, a story containing a great deal of pathos and human compassion; her prose is able to convey both the simple every day gesturesand as the high contents she tells about. The result is a successful attempt to write about a difficult life and the dream of sport as being stronger than any handicap."
(from: "Antologia Premio Nazionale di Poesia e Narrativa AlberoAndronico III Edizione", page 14 - translated from the original Italian text)
Premio "Colonna e i suoi tesori:
vivere la campagna", VI Edition
September 2009
Short story: Nella terra (In the soil)
2nd prize