Things that can happen only in Italy: winning the youth version of the biggest literary award in the country at the tender age of 44. I'm not claiming that everyone should be like me and consider themselves old by the time they are in their mid-20s, but damn I'd actually be offended if I was labelled as "young" in 8 years' time...
Things that can happen anywhere in the world: you write what is ultimately a collection of largely autobiographical anecdotes with very little originality but that everyone can relate to and suddenly yours is a book worth reading. Throw in a big award names on the book's cover, the name of a major author (Zerocalcare) saying that you are wonderfully funny, and plenty of people (including myself) will read your work. But that's somehow not enough to make a good book!
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