The
Viareggio Literary Prize is a prestigious
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award, whose first edition was in 1930, and is named after the
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. It was conceived by three friends, Alberto Colantuoni, Carlo Salsa, and Leonida Repaci, to rival the
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, given in the city of
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The first (or some cases equal-first) prizes have been awarded as follows:
- 1930
- Anselmo Bucci, Il pittore volante
- Lorenzo Viani, Ritorno alla patria
- 1931 - Corrado Tumiati, I tetti rossi
- 1932 - Antonio Foschini, Le avventure di Villon
- 1933 - Achille Campanile
Achille Campanile was an Italian writer, playwright, journalist and television critic known for his surreal humour and word play.-Works:* Ma che cos'è questo amore...
, Cantilena all'angolo della strada
- 1934 - Raffaele Calzini, Segantini, romanzo della montagna
- 1935
- Mario Massa
Mario Massa was an Italian freestyle swimmer who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics, in the 1912 Summer Olympics, and in the 1920 Summer Olympics.He was born in Nervi....
, Un uomo solo
- Stefano Landi, Il muro di casa
- 1936 - Riccardo Bacchelli
Riccardo Bacchelli, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian writer.His first novel was Il filo meraviglioso di Lodovico Clo’ . Then he wrote La città degli amanti...
, Il rabdomante
- 1937 - Guelfo Civinini, Trattoria di paese
- 1938
- Vittorio G. Rossi
Vittorio Giovanni Rossi was an Italian journalist and writer.Rossi was born in Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy. He died in Rome and is buried in the S. Margherita Ligure cemetery, where is also his dedicated museum, inside the beautiful Villa Durazzo.He was special correspondent of the Italian...
, Oceano (Ocean)
- Enrico Pea, La Maremmana
- 1939
- Maria Bellonci, Lucrezia Borgia
- Arnaldi Frateili, Clara fra i lupi
- Orio Vergani, Basso profondo
- 1940 through 1945 - (No prizes due to war)
- 1946
- Umberto Saba
Umberto Saba was the pseudonym of Italian poet and novelist Umberto Poli. His creative work was hampered by a life-long struggle with mental illness.-Early years:...
, Il Canzoniere (Songbook)
- Silvio Micheli, Pane duro
- 1947 - Antonio Gramsci
Antonio Gramsci was an Italian philosopher, writer, politician and political theorist. A founding member and onetime leader of the Communist Party of Italy, he was imprisoned by Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime...
, Lettere dal Carcere (Letters from Jail)
- 1948
- Aldo Palazzeschi
Aldo Palazzeschi was the pen name of Aldo Giurlani, an Italian novelist, poet, journalist and essayist...
, I fratelli Cuccoli (The Cuccoli Brothers)
- Elsa Morante
Elsa Morante was an Italian novelist, perhaps best known for her novel La storia .-Biography:...
, Menzogna e sortilegio (House of Liars)
- 1949 - Carlo A.
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The
Viareggio Literary Prize is a prestigious
ItalianItaly , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares its northern, Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia...
literaryLiterature is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word means "acquaintance with letters" , and therefore the academic study of literature is known as Letters...
award, whose first edition was in 1930, and is named after the
TuscanTuscany is a region in North-Central Italy. It has an area of and a population of about 3.6 million inhabitants. The regional capital is Florence.Tuscany is known for its landscapes and its artistic legacy...
city of
ViareggioViareggio is a city located in northern Tuscany, Italy, on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea. With a population of over 63,000 it is the main centre of the northern Tuscan Riviera known as Versilia, and the second largest city within the Province of Lucca....
. It was conceived by three friends, Alberto Colantuoni, Carlo Salsa, and Leonida Repaci, to rival the
Bagutta PrizeThe Bagutta Prize is an Italian literary prize.It originated in Milan's Bagutta Ristorante. The writer Riccardo Bacchelli discovered the restaurant and soon he had numerous friends who would dine together and discuss books...
, given in the city of
MilanMilan in Italy, is the capital of the region of Lombardia and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while the urban area is the fifth largest in the E.U. with an estimated population of 4.3 million...
.
List of Prize Recipients
The first (or some cases equal-first) prizes have been awarded as follows:
- 1930
- Anselmo Bucci, Il pittore volante
- Lorenzo Viani, Ritorno alla patria
- 1931 - Corrado Tumiati, I tetti rossi
- 1932 - Antonio Foschini, Le avventure di Villon
- 1933 - Achille Campanile
Achille Campanile was an Italian writer, playwright, journalist and television critic known for his surreal humour and word play.-Works:* Ma che cos'è questo amore...
, Cantilena all'angolo della strada
- 1934 - Raffaele Calzini, Segantini, romanzo della montagna
- 1935
- Mario Massa
Mario Massa was an Italian freestyle swimmer who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics, in the 1912 Summer Olympics, and in the 1920 Summer Olympics.He was born in Nervi....
, Un uomo solo
- Stefano Landi, Il muro di casa
- 1936 - Riccardo Bacchelli
Riccardo Bacchelli, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian writer.His first novel was Il filo meraviglioso di Lodovico Clo’ . Then he wrote La città degli amanti...
, Il rabdomante
- 1937 - Guelfo Civinini, Trattoria di paese
- 1938
- Vittorio G. Rossi
Vittorio Giovanni Rossi was an Italian journalist and writer.Rossi was born in Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy. He died in Rome and is buried in the S. Margherita Ligure cemetery, where is also his dedicated museum, inside the beautiful Villa Durazzo.He was special correspondent of the Italian...
, Oceano (Ocean)
- Enrico Pea, La Maremmana
- 1939
- Maria Bellonci, Lucrezia Borgia
- Arnaldi Frateili, Clara fra i lupi
- Orio Vergani, Basso profondo
- 1940 through 1945 - (No prizes due to war)
- 1946
- Umberto Saba
Umberto Saba was the pseudonym of Italian poet and novelist Umberto Poli. His creative work was hampered by a life-long struggle with mental illness.-Early years:...
, Il Canzoniere (Songbook)
- Silvio Micheli, Pane duro
- 1947 - Antonio Gramsci
Antonio Gramsci was an Italian philosopher, writer, politician and political theorist. A founding member and onetime leader of the Communist Party of Italy, he was imprisoned by Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime...
, Lettere dal Carcere (Letters from Jail)
- 1948
- Aldo Palazzeschi
Aldo Palazzeschi was the pen name of Aldo Giurlani, an Italian novelist, poet, journalist and essayist...
, I fratelli Cuccoli (The Cuccoli Brothers)
- Elsa Morante
Elsa Morante was an Italian novelist, perhaps best known for her novel La storia .-Biography:...
, Menzogna e sortilegio (House of Liars)
- 1949 - Carlo A. Jemolo, Stato e Chiesa in Italia negli ultimi cento anni
- 1950 - Francisco Jovine, Le terre del sacramento
- 1950 - Carl Bernari, Speranzella
- 1951 - Domenico Rea, Gesù fate luce
- 1952 - Tommaso Fiore, Un popolo di formiche
- 1953 - Carlo Emilio Gadda
Carlo Emilio Gadda was an Italian writer and poet. He belongs to the tradition of the language innovators, writers that played with the somewhat stiff standard pre-war Italian language, and added elements of dialects, technical jargon and wordplay.-Biography:Gadda was a practising engineer from...
, Novelle dal ducato in fiamme
- 1954 - Rocco Scotellaro, È fatto giorno
- 1955 - Vasco Pratolini
Vasco Pratolini was one of the most noted Italian writers of the twentieth century.Born in Florence, Pratolini worked at various jobs before entering the literary world thanks to his acquaintance with Elio Vittorini. In 1938 he founded, together with Alfonso Gatto, the magazine Campo di Marte...
, Metello
- 1956
- Carlo Levi
Carlo Levi was an Italian-Jewish painter, writer, activist, anti-fascist, and doctor.He is best known for his book Cristo si è fermato a Eboli , published in 1945, a memoir of his time spent in exile in Lucania, Italy, after being arrested in connection with his political activism...
, Le parole sono pietre
- Gianna Manzini, La Sparviera
- 1957 - Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy , the Cosmicomics collection of short stories , and the novels Invisible Cities and If on a winter's night a traveler .Lionised in Britain and America, he was...
, Il barone rampante (prize refused by Calvino)
- 1958 - Ernesto De Martino
Ernesto de Martino was an Italian philosopher and anthropologist and historian of religions. He studied with Benedetto Croce and Adolfo Omodeo, and did field research with Diego Carpitella into the funeral rituals of Lucania and the tarantella.Ernesto de Martino was born in Naples, Italy, where...
, Morte e pianto rituale nel mondo antico
- 1959 - Marino Moretti, Tutte le novelle
- 1960 - G. B. Angioletti, I grandi ospiti
- 1961 - Alberto Moravia
Alberto Moravia, born Alberto Pincherle, was one of the leading Italian novelists of the 20th century...
, La noia
- 1962 - Giorgio Bassani
Giorgio Bassani was an Italian novelist, poet, essayist, editor, and international intellectual.-Biography:Bassani was born in Bologna into a prosperous Jewish family of Ferrara, where he spent his childhood with his mother Dora, father Enrico , brother Paolo, and sister Jenny...
, Il giardino dei Finzi Contini
- 1963 - Antonio Delfini, Racconti
- 1964 - Giuseppe Berto
Giuseppe Berto was an Italian writer. His wrote for 23 films between 1947 to 1978.-External links:...
, Il male oscuro
- 1965 - Goffredo Parise
Goffredo Parise was an Italian writer and journalist. He won the Viareggio Prize in 1965 and the Strega Prize in 1982....
, Il Padrone (The Boss)
- 1966 - Alfonso Gatto, La storia delle vittime
- 1967 - Raffaello Brignetti, Il gabbiano azzurro
- 1968 - Libero Bigiaretti, La controfigura
- 1969 - Fulvio Tomizza
Fulvio Tomizza was an Italian language writer. He was born in Giurizzani in Kingdom of Italy ....
, L'albero dei sogni
- 1970 - Nello Saito, Dentro e fuori
- 1971 - Ugo Attardi
Ugo Attardi was an Italian painter, sculptor and writer....
, L'erede selvaggio
- 1972 - Romano Bilenchi, Il bottone di Stalingrado
- 1973 - Achille Campanile
Achille Campanile was an Italian writer, playwright, journalist and television critic known for his surreal humour and word play.-Works:* Ma che cos'è questo amore...
, Manuale di conversazione
- 1974 - Clotilde Marghieri, Amati enigmi
- 1975 - Paolo Volponi, Il sipario ducale
- 1976 - Mario Tobino
Mario Tobino was an Italian poet, writer and psychiatrist.Tobino was born in Viareggio, Tuscany. A prolific writer, he debuted as a poet but later composed mostly novels. His works are characterized by a strong autobiographical inspiration, and usually deals with social and psychological themes.He...
, La bella degli specchi
- 1977 - Davide Lajolo, Veder l'erba dalla parte delle radici
- 1978 - Antonio Altomonte, Dopo il presidente
- 1979 - Giorgio Manganelli
Giorgio Manganelli was an Italian journalist, avant-garde novelist and literary critic.A native of Milan, he was one of the leaders of the avant-garde literary movement in Italy in the 1960s....
, Centuria
- 1980 - Stefano Terra, Terra Le porte di ferro
- 1981 - Enzo Siciliano
Enzo Siciliano was an Italian writer, playwright, literary critic and intellectual.Siciliano was born in Rome. He was collaborator of Alberto Moravia, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Elsa Morante and many other famous writers in the 1950s and 1960s.From 1996 to 1998 he was President of RAI...
, La principessa e l'antiquario
- 1982 - Primo Levi
Primo Michele Levi was a Jewish-Italian chemist, Holocaust survivor and author of memoirs, short stories, poems, essays and novels....
, Se non ora, quando?
- 1983 - Giuliana Morandini, Caffè specchi
- 1984 - Gina Lagorio, Tosca dei gatti
- 1985 - Manlio Cancogni, Quella strana felicità
- 1986 - Marisa Volpi, Il maestro della betulla
- 1987 - Mario Spinella, Lettera da Kupjansk
- 1988 - Rosetta Loy, Le strade di polvere
- 1989 - Salvatore Mannuzzu, Mannuzzu Procedure
- 1990 - Luisa Adorno, Arco di luminara
- 1991 - A. De Benedetti, Se la vita non è vita
- 1992 - Luigi Malerba
Luigi Malerba was an Italian author who wrote short stories, historical novels and screenplays as well as a co-founder of the Gruppo 63. During his career he won many literary prizes....
, Le pietre volanti
- 1993 - Alessandro Baricco
Alessandro Baricco is a popular Italian writer, director and performer. His novels have been translated into a wide number of languages...
, Oceano mare
- 1994
- Fiction, Antonio Tabucchi
Antonio Tabucchi is an Italian writer and academic who teaches Portuguese language and literature at the University of Siena, Italy....
, Sostiene Pereira
- Poetry, Giovanni Raboni
Giovanni Raboni was an Italian poet, translator and literary critic.- Biography :Raboni was born in Milan, the second son of Giuseppe, a clerk at Milan commune, and Matilde Sommariva. In October 1942, after the first bombings of Milan, the family moved to Sant'Ambrogio Olona, near Varese, where...
, Ogni terzo pensiero
- Essays, Chiara Frugoni, Francesco e l' invenzione delle stimmate
- 1995 - Maurizio Maggiani, Il coraggio del pettirosso
- 1996 - Ermanno Rea, Mistero napoletano
- 1997 - Claudio Piersanti, Luisa e il silenzio
- 1998 - Giorgio Pressburger
Giorgio Pressburger is an Italian writer of novels and short stories.Bor at Budapest, Pressburger settled in Italy in 1956, where he worked as a film and theatre director. He is currently the Director of the Institute of Italian Culture in Hungary. His book The Law of White Spaces won the...
, La neve e la colpa
- 1999 - Ernesto Franco, Vite senza fine
- 2000
- Giorgio van Straten
Giorgio van Straten is an Italian writer, editor, translator and manager of arts organizations. In 2000 he was awarded the Grand Official Order of Merit of the Italian Republic...
, Il mio nome a memoria (My Name, A Living Memory)
- Sandro Veronesi
Sandro Veronesi, born in Prato, Tuscany in 1959, is an Italian novelist, essayist, and journalist. After earning a degree in architecture at the University of Florence, he opted for a writing career in his mid to late twenties. Veronesi published his first book at the age of 25, a collection of...
, La forza del passato
- 2001
- Nicolò Ammaniti, Io non ho paura
- Michele Ranchetti, Verbale
- Giorgio Pestelli, Canti del destino
- 2002
- Fiction, Jaeggy Fleur, Proletarka
- Poetry, Iolanda Insana, La stortura
- Essays, Alfonso Berardinelli,
- 2003
- Fiction, Giuseppe Montesano, Di questa vita menzognera
- 2004
- Fiction, Edoardo Albinati, Svenimenti
- Essays, Andrea Tagliapietra, La vita crudele
- Poetry, Livia Livi, Antifona
- 2005
- Fiction, Raffaele La Capria
Raffaele La Capria is an Italian writer, known especially for the three novels which were collected as Tre romanzi di una giornata.-Biography:...
, L'estro quotidiano
- Essays, Alberto Arbasino
Alberto Arbasino is an Italian writer and essayist. From 1983 to 1987, he was deputy to the Italian Parliament for the Italian Republican Party.-Biography:His work include novels and essays...
, Marescialle e libertini
- Poetry, Milo de Angelis
Milo de Angelis is an Italian language poet. He is the author of several books of poetry, as well as a volume of stories and one of essays...
, Tema dell'addio
- 2006
- Fiction, Gianni Celati
- Biography :Gianni Celati was born in Sondrio, but spent his infancy and adolescence in the province of Ferrara. He graduated in English literature at the University of Bologna, where he would later teach .His first book, Comiche, was published in 1970 with a presentation by Italo Calvino...
, Vite di pascolanti
- Essays, Giovanni Agosti, Su Mantegna I
- Poetry, Giuseppe Conte, Ferite e rifioriture
- First work, Roberto Saviano
Roberto Saviano is an Italian writer and journalist.In his writings, articles and books he employs prose and news-reporting style to narrate the story of the Camorra , exposing its territory and business connections.Since 2006, following the publication of his bestselling book Gomorrah Roberto...
, Gomorra
- 2007
- Fiction, Filippo Tuena, Ultimo parallelo
- Essays, Paolo Mauri, Buio
- Poetry, Silvia Bre, Marmo
- First work - not awarded
- 2008
- Fiction, Francesca Sanvitale, L'inizio è in autunno (Einaudi)
- Essays, Miguel Gotor, Aldo Moro. Lettere dalla prigionia (Einaudi)
- Poetry, Eugenio De Signoribus, Poesie (1976 - 2007) (Garzanti)
- First work - not awarded