The Premio Bancarella is an Italian

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 literary prize established in 1953; it is given in Pontremoli

Pontremoli

Pontremoli is a small city, comune and bishop's see in the province of Massa-Carrara, Tuscany, Italy. Literally translated, "Pontremoli" derives from "Trembling Bridge" , with the commune having been named after a prominent bridge across the Magra.Pontremoli is situated in the upper...

 every year, the last Saturday or the last Sunday in July.

At first, six books are selected and award the Premio Selezione Bancarella, then the booksellers establish the winner with their vote. The awarding of the prize take place in the last evening.

At present, Premio Bancarella is at the 54th edition.

List of winners

Year	Author	Title	Publisher
1953	Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economic and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the...	Il vecchio e il mare (The Old Man and the Sea The Old Man and the Sea The Old Man and the Sea is a novel written by American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Cuba, and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction to be produced by Hemingway and published in his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it centers upon Santiago, an aging fisherman who... )	Mondadori
1954	Giovanni Guareschi	Don Camillo e il suo gregge	Rizzoli RCS MediaGroup RCS MediaGroup S.p.A. , based in Milan and listed on the Italian Stock Exchange, is an international multimedia publishing group that operates in daily newspapers, magazines and books, radio broadcasting, new media and digital and satellite TV...
1955	Hervé Le Boterf	Lo Spietato	ELI
1956	Hanh Suyn	L'amore è una cosa meravigliosa	Martello
1957	Werner Keller	La Bibbia aveva ragione	Garzanti
1958	Boris Pasternak Boris Pasternak Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Russian language poet, novelist, and literary translator. In his native Russia, Pasternak's anthology My Sister Life, is one of the most influential collections ever published in the Russian language...	Il dottor Zivago (Doctor Zhivago Doctor Zhivago (novel) Doctor Zhivago is a 20th century novel by Boris Pasternak, first published in 1957. The novel is named after its protagonist, Yuri Zhivago, a physician and poet... )	Feltrinelli
1959	Heinrich Gerlac	L'armata tradita	Garzanti
1960	Bonaventura Tecchi	Gli egoisti	Bompiani
1961	André Schwarz Bart	L'ultimo dei giusti	Feltrinelli
1962	Cornelius Ryan Cornelius Ryan Cornelius Ryan, was an Irish journalist and author mainly known for his writings on popular military history, especially his World War II books: The Longest Day: June 6, 1944 D-Day , The Last Battle , and A Bridge Too Far .-Early life:Ryan was born in Dublin and educated at Synge Street CBS,...	Il giorno più lungo (The Longest Day The Longest Day (book) The Longest Day is a book by Cornelius Ryan published in 1959, telling the story of D-Day, the first day of the World War II invasion of Normandy. It includes details of Operation Deadstick, the coup de main operation by gliderborne troops to capture both Pegasus Bridge and Horsa Bridge before the... )	Garzanti
1963	Luigi Caccia Dominioni	El Alamein	Longanesi
1964	Giulio Bedeschi	Centomila gavette di ghiaccio	Mursia
1965	Luigi Preti Luigi Preti Luigi Preti was an Italian politician and minister of Italian Democratic Socialist Party.-Biography:Preti was born in Ferrara. He graduated in law in Bologna and lecturer of public law. He died in Bologna in 2009....	Giovinezza, giovinezza	Mondadori
1966	Vincenzo Pappalettera Vincenzo Pappalettera Vincenzo Pappalettera was an Italian writer and historian, notable for his first-hand account of his imprisonment in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp during the years of World War II....	Tu passerai per il camino	Mursia
1967	Indro Montanelli Indro Montanelli Indro Montanelli was an Italian journalist and historian, known for his new approach to writing history in books such as History of the Greeks and History of Rome.... , Roberto Gervaso	L'Italia dei Comuni	Rizzoli
1968	Isaac Bashevis Singer Isaac Bashevis Singer Isaac Bashevis Singer – July 24, 1991) was a Polish Jewish American author noted for his short stories. He was one of the leading figures in the Yiddish literary movement, and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978...	La famiglia Moskat (The Family Moskat The Family Moskat The Family Moskat is a novel written by Isaac Bashevis Singer, originally written in Yiddish. It was Singer's first book published in English.-External links:*... )	Longanesi
1969	Peter Kolosimo Peter Kolosimo Peter Kolosimo, pseudonym of Pier Domenico Colosimo was an Italian journalist and writer. Together with the later Erich von Däniken, he is ranked amongst the founders of pseudoarchaeology .Born in Modena, he lived in Bolzano for much of his life...	Non è terrestre	Sugar
1970	Oriana Fallaci Oriana Fallaci Oriana Fallaci was an Italian journalist, author, and political interviewer. A former partisan during World War II, she had a long and successful journalistic career...	Niente e così sia	Rizzoli
1971	Enzo Biagi Enzo Biagi Enzo Biagi was an Italian journalist and writer.-Biography:Biagi was born in Lizzano in Belvedere, and began his career as a journalist in Bologna. Active in journalism for six decades and author of some eighty books, Biagi won numerous awards, among which the 1979 Saint Vincent prize and the...	Testimone del tempo	S.E.I.
1972	Alberto Bevilacqua Alberto Bevilacqua Alberto Bevilacqua is an Italian writer and filmmaker. Leonardo Sciascia, an Italian writer and politician, read Bevilacqua's first collection of stories, The Dust on the Grass , was impressed and published it...	Il viaggio misterioso	Rizzoli
1973	Roberto Gervaso	Cagliostro	Rizzoli
1974	Giuseppe Berto Giuseppe Berto Giuseppe Berto was an Italian writer. He is mostly known for his novels, among which Il cielo è rosso and Il male oscuro; he also wrote for cinema.-Selected works:...	Oh! Serafina	Rusconi
1975	Susanna Agnelli Susanna Agnelli Susanna Agnelli, Contessa Rattazzi, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian politician, businesswoman and writer...	Vestivamo alla marinara	Mondadori
1976	Carlo Cassola Carlo Cassola Carlo Cassola was an important Italian novelist and essayist. His novel La Ragazza di Bube , which received the Strega Prize, was adapted into a film by Luigi Comencini in 1963....	L'antagonista	Rizzoli
1977	Giorgio Saviane Giorgio Saviane - Biography :Giorgio Saviane received a Laurea in Giurisprudenza from University of Padua and then moved to Florence to practice as a lawyer.During his period in Florence he started his career as a writer....	Eutanasia di un amore	Rizzoli
1978	Alex Haley Alex Haley Alexander Murray Palmer Haley was an African-American writer. He is best known as the author of Roots: The Saga of an American Family and the coauthor of The Autobiography of Malcolm X.-Early life:...	Radici (Roots Roots: The Saga of an American Family Roots: The Saga of an American Family is a novel written by Alex Haley and first published in 1976. It tells the story of Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century African, captured as an adolescent and sold into slavery in the United States, and follows his life and the lives of his descendants in the U.S.... )	Rizzoli
1979	Massimo Grillandi	La contessa di Castiglione	Rusconi
1980	Maurice Denuziere	Luisiana	Rizzoli
1981	Sergio Zavoli	Socialista di Dio	Mondadori
1982	Gary Jennings Gary Jennings Gary Jennings was an American author who wrote children's and adult novels. In 1980, after the successful novel Aztec, he specialized in writing adult historical fiction novels.-Biography:...	L'Azteco (Aztec Aztec (book) Aztec is a historical fiction novel by Gary Jennings. It is the first of five novels in the Aztec series.The book is written as a series of letters from the Bishop of the See of New Spain to King Carlos of Spain containing a transcribed biography of Mixtli , an elderly Aztec man, by Spanish Catholic... )	Rizzoli
1983	Renato Barneschi	Vita e morte di Mafalda di Savoia a Buchenwald	Rusconi
1984	Luciano De Crescenzo Luciano De Crescenzo Luciano De Crescenzo is an Italian writer, film actor, director and engineer.Born in Naples, he graduated in engineering and worked for IBM Italy until 1976, when he published the bestseller Così parlò Bellavista , a collection of facts and anecdotes about his city which sold 600,000 copies in...	Storia della filosofia greca - I Presocratici	Mondadori
1985	Giulio Andreotti Giulio Andreotti Giulio Andreotti is an Italian politician of the now dissolved centrist Christian Democracy party. He served as the 42nd Prime Minister of Italy from 1972 to 1973, from 1976 to 1979 and from 1989 to 1992. He also served as Minister of the Interior , Defense Minister and Foreign Minister and he...	Visti da vicino (3^ serie)	Rizzoli
1986	Pasquale Festa Campanile Pasquale Festa Campanile Pasquale Festa Campanile was an Italian screenwriter, film director and novellist. He was born at Melfi and died in Rome.- Director :* Un tentativo sentimentale * La nonna Sabella...	La strega innamorata	Bompiani
1987	Enzo Biagi Enzo Biagi Enzo Biagi was an Italian journalist and writer.-Biography:Biagi was born in Lizzano in Belvedere, and began his career as a journalist in Bologna. Active in journalism for six decades and author of some eighty books, Biagi won numerous awards, among which the 1979 Saint Vincent prize and the...	Il boss è solo	Mondadori
1988	Cesare Marchi	Grandi peccatori, grandi cattedrali	Rizzoli
1989	Umberto Eco Umberto Eco Umberto Eco Knight Grand Cross is an Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose , an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory...	Il pendolo di Focault (Foucault's Pendulum Foucault's Pendulum Foucault's Pendulum is a novel by Italian writer and philosopher Umberto Eco. It was first published in 1988; the translation into English by William Weaver appeared a year later.... )	Bompiani
1990	Vittorio Sgarbi Vittorio Sgarbi Vittorio Umberto Antonio Maria Sgarbi is an Italian art critic, politician, cultural commentator and TV personality.He was appointed curator of the Italian Pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennale...	Davanti all'immagine	Rizzoli
1991	Antonio Spinosa	Vittorio Emanuele II. L'astuzia di un re	Mondadori
1992	Alberto Bevilacqua Alberto Bevilacqua Alberto Bevilacqua is an Italian writer and filmmaker. Leonardo Sciascia, an Italian writer and politician, read Bevilacqua's first collection of stories, The Dust on the Grass , was impressed and published it...	I sensi incantati	Mondadori
1993	Carmen Covito Carmen Covito Carmen Covito is an Italian writer and translator. Her novels include La bruttina stagionata , Del perché i porcospini attraversano la strada , Benvenuti in questo ambiente and La rossa e il nero...	La bruttina stagionata	Bompiani
1994	John Grisham John Grisham John Ray Grisham, Jr. is an American lawyer and author, best known for his popular legal thrillers.John Grisham graduated from Mississippi State University before attending the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1981 and practiced criminal law for about a decade...	Il cliente (The Client The Client The Client is a legal thriller written by American author John Grisham, set mostly in Memphis, Tennessee and New Orleans, Louisiana... )	Mondadori
1995	Jostein Gaarder Jostein Gaarder Jostein Gaarder /ˈju:staɪn ˈgɔːrdər/ is a Norwegian intellectual and author of several novels, short stories and children's books. Gaarder often writes from the perspective of children, exploring their sense of wonder about the world. He often uses metafiction in his works, writing stories within...	Il mondo di Sofia (Sophie's World Sophie's World Sophie's World is a novel by Jostein Gaarder, published in 1991. It was originally written in Norwegian, but has since been translated into English and many other languages. It sold more than 30 million copies and is one of the most successful Norwegian novels outside of Norway... )	Longanesi
1996	Stefano Zecchi	Sensualità	Mondadori
1997	Giampaolo Pansa	I nostri giorni proibiti	Sperling & Kupfer
1998	Paco Ignacio Taibo II Paco Ignacio Taibo II Paco Ignacio Taibo II , is a Mexican writer and novelist....	Senza perdere la tenerezza	Il Saggiatore
1999	Ken Follett Ken Follett Ken Follett is a Welsh author of thrillers and historical novels. He has sold more than 100 million copies of his works. Four of his books have reached the number 1 ranking on the New York Times best-seller list: The Key to Rebecca, Lie Down with Lions, Triple, and World Without End.-Early...	Il martello dell'Eden (The Hammer of Eden The Hammer of Eden The Hammer of Eden is a work by Ken Follett. It is about a group of people living together in a commune cut off from the rest of the world. When their commune is threatened by a plan to build a dam, they turn desperate and devise a devious plan to arm twist the governor of California to abandon the... )	Mondadori
2000	Michael Connelly Michael Connelly Michael Connelly is an American author of detective novels and other crime fiction, notably those featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch and criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller. His books, which have been translated into 36 languages, have garnered him many awards...	Il ragno (Angels Flight Angels Flight (novel) Angels Flight is the eighth novel by American crime author Michael Connelly, and the sixth featuring the Los Angeles detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch.-Plot summary:... )	Piemme
2001	Andrea Camilleri Andrea Camilleri Andrea Camilleri is an Italian writer.-Biography:Originally from Porto Empedocle, Sicily, Camilleri, began studies at the Faculty of Literature in 1944, without concluding them, meanwhile publishing poems and short stories.From 1948 to 1950 Camilleri studied stage and film direction at the Silvio...	La gita a Tindari (Excursion to Tindari Excursion to Tindari Excursion to Tindari is a 2000 novel by Andrea Camilleri, translated into English in 2005 by Stephen Sartarelli. It is the fifth novel in the internationally popular Inspector Montalbano series, and, upon publication in English, was shortlisted for the CWA Duncan Lawrie International Dagger for... )	Sellerio
2002	Federico Audisio	L'uomo che curava con i fiori	Piemme
2003	Alessandra Appiano	Amiche di salvataggio	Sperling & Kupfer
2004	Bruno Vespa Bruno Vespa Bruno Vespa is an Italian television and newspaper journalist.A former director of Italian state-owned TV channel Rai Uno's news program TG1, he is the founding host of the program Porta a Porta , which has been broadcast without interruption on RAI channels since 1996.Vespa was born in L'Aquila,...	Il cavaliere e il professore	Rai Eri, Mondadori
2005	Gianrico Carofiglio Gianrico Carofiglio Gianrico Carofiglio is a novelist and former anti-Mafia judge in the Italian city of Bari. His debut novel, Involuntary Witness, was published in 2002 and translated into English in 2005 by Patrick Creagh and published by the Bitter Lemon Press and has been adapted as the basis for a popular...	Il passato è una terra straniera	Rizzoli
2006	Andrea Vitali	La figlia del podestà	Garzanti
2007	Frank Schätzing Frank Schätzing ' , is a German writer, mostly known for his best-selling science fiction novel The Swarm .- Life :Schätzing was born in Cologne and studied communication studies; he later ran his own company, an advertising agency named INTEVI, in Cologne. Schätzing became a writer in 1990, and penned several...	Il diavolo nella cattedrale	Nord
2008	Valerio Massimo Manfredi Valerio Massimo Manfredi Valerio Massimo Manfredi is an Italian historian, writer, archaeologist and journalist.-Biography:He was born in Piumazzo di Castelfranco Emilia, province of Modena and is married to Christine Fedderson Manfredi, who translates his published works from Italian to English...	L'armata perduta	Mondadori
2009	Donato Carrisi	Il Suggeritore	Mondadori
2010	Elizabeth Strout Elizabeth Strout Elizabeth Strout is an American author of fiction.She was born in Portland, Maine, and was raised in small towns in Maine and New Hampshire. After graduating from Bates College, she spent a year in Oxford, England, followed by studies at law school for another year...	Olive Kitteridge Olive Kitteridge Olive Kitteridge is a collection of stories by American author Elizabeth Strout. It covers 13 connected short stories about a woman named Olive and her immediate family and friends in the town of Crosby in coastal Maine. It is also known as On the Coast of Maine...	Mondadori
2011	Mauro Corona	La Fine del Mondo Storto	Mondadori

Premio Bancarella della Cucina

The Premio Bancarella della Cucina, inaugurated in 2006, is awarded by the Fondazione Città del Libro together with the Accademia Italiana della Cucina and is intended to promote the gastronomic traditions and heritage of Italy.^, 

Winners

Year	Author	Title	Publisher
2006	Ida Li Vigni e Paolo Aldo Rossi	Gola. Mater amatissima	De Ferrari
2007	Elena Kostioukovitch Elena Kostioukovitch Elena Kostioukovitch , is an essayist and literary translator. She is the winner of numerous literary awards, including the Best Translation of the Year in the USSR , Zoil , Grinzane Cavour Moscow , Welcome Prize given by the Russian National Association of Restaurateurs, Bancarella Award ,...	Perche agli Italiani piace parlare del cibo	Sperlig & Kupfer
2008	June Di Schino and Furio Luccichenti	Il cuoco segreto dei papi	Gangemi

Other prizes

Other prizes assigned in Pontremoli together with Bancarella are: Premio Bancarellino and Premio Bancarella Sport.

External links

• Premio Bancarella