Claudio Bandi, Full Professor of Microbiology at the University of Milan, won the Alberto Tedeschi Prize with his debut novel LA CITTA’ E L’ABISSO, published in the Il Giallo Mondadori series. The Alberto Tedeschi Prize is one of the most important awards for literature in the crime genre in Italy. Bandi’s novel has received very positive reviews, including those signed by Luciano Canfora in Corriere della Sera on July 23 and by Heiko Caimi in Inkroci.
Prof. Bandi has decided to donate all royalties from the first 5,000 copies sold to initiatives in favor of the de Carneri Foundation, which is active in projects to control tropical diseases. Specifically, four prizes for young researchers will be funded, which will be administered by the four Italian scientific societies in the field of microbiology, which include SIMGBM.
The novel THE CITY AND THE ABYSS is available in print form in EDICOLA in August. In EBOOK on major platforms, also in the following months.