Viareggio Prize
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The Viareggio Literary Prize is a prestigious Italian
literary
award, whose first edition was in 1930, and is named after the Tuscan
city of Viareggio
. It was conceived by three friends, Alberto Colantuoni, Carlo Salsa
, and Leonida Repaci, to rival the Bagutta Prize
, given in the city of Milan
.
Italy
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literary
Literature
Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...
award, whose first edition was in 1930, and is named after the Tuscan
Tuscany
Tuscany is a region in Italy. It has an area of about 23,000 square kilometres and a population of about 3.75 million inhabitants. The regional capital is Florence ....
city of Viareggio
Viareggio
Viareggio is a city and comune located in northern Tuscany, Italy, on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea. With a population of over 64,000 it is the main centre of the northern Tuscan Riviera known as Versilia, and the second largest city within the Province of Lucca.It is known as a seaside resort...
. It was conceived by three friends, Alberto Colantuoni, Carlo Salsa
Carlo Salsa
Carlo Salsa was an Italian journalist, writer and screenwriter....
, and Leonida Repaci, to rival the Bagutta Prize
Bagutta Prize
The 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. On 11 November 1927 they decided to create a literary prize and named it...
, given in the city of Milan
Milan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
.
List of recipients
The first (or some cases equal-first) prizes have been awarded as follows:- 1930
- Anselmo BucciAnselmo BucciAnselmo Bucci was an Italian painter.-Biography:Having attended the Brera Academy in Milan from 1904 to 1905, Bucci moved to Paris with Leonardo Dudreville in 1906...
, Il pittore volante - Lorenzo Viani, Ritorno alla patria
- Anselmo Bucci
- 1931 - Corrado Tumiati, I tetti rossi
- 1932 - Antonio Foschini, Le avventure di Villon
- 1933 - Achille CampanileAchille CampanileAchille 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 MassaMario MassaMario 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
- Mario Massa
- 1936 - Riccardo BacchelliRiccardo BacchelliRiccardo Bacchelli was an Italian writer.His first novel was Il filo meraviglioso di Lodovico Clo’ . Then he wrote La città degli amanti . He was one of the founders of the Bagutta Prize.His more popular work was Il mulino del Po ,...
, Il rabdomante - 1937 - Guelfo Civinini, Trattoria di paese
- 1938
- Vittorio G. RossiVittorio G. RossiVittorio 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
- Vittorio G. Rossi
- 1939
- Maria BellonciMaria BellonciMaria Villavecchia Bellonci was an Italian writer known especially for her biography of Lucrezia Borgia. She and Guido Alberti set up the Strega Prize in 1947....
, Lucrezia Borgia - Arnaldi Frateili, Clara fra i lupi
- Orio Vergani, Basso profondo
- Maria Bellonci
- 1940 through 1945 - (No prizes due to war)
- 1946
- Umberto SabaUmberto SabaUmberto Poli was an Italian poet and novelist, born in the cosmopolitan Mediterranean port of Trieste when it was the fourth largest city of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Poli assumed the nom de plume "Saba" in 1910, and his name was officially changed to Umberto Saba in 1928. From 1919 he was the...
, Il Canzoniere (Songbook) - Silvio Micheli, Pane duro
- Umberto Saba
- 1947 - Antonio GramsciAntonio GramsciAntonio Gramsci was an Italian writer, politician, political philosopher, and linguist. He was a founding member and onetime leader of the Communist Party of Italy and was imprisoned by Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime...
, Lettere dal Carcere (Letters from Jail) - 1948
- Aldo PalazzeschiAldo PalazzeschiAldo Palazzeschi was the pen name of Aldo Giurlani, an Italian novelist, poet, journalist and essayist.-Biography:...
, I fratelli Cuccoli (The Cuccoli Brothers) - Elsa MoranteElsa MoranteElsa Morante was an Italian novelist, perhaps best known for her novel La storia .-Biography:...
, Menzogna e sortilegio (House of Liars)
- Aldo Palazzeschi
- 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 GaddaCarlo Emilio GaddaCarlo 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 PratoliniVasco PratoliniVasco 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 LeviCarlo LeviDr. 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 ManziniGianna ManziniGianna Manzini was an Italian writer whose Ritratto in piedi won her the Premio Campiello in 1971. It is a semi-autobiographical portrait of her father, a noted Italian anarchist...
, La Sparviera
- Carlo Levi
- 1957 - Italo CalvinoItalo CalvinoItalo 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 the United States,...
, Il barone rampante (prize refused by Calvino) - 1958 - Ernesto De MartinoErnesto de MartinoErnesto 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 MoraviaAlberto MoraviaAlberto Moravia, born Alberto Pincherle was an Italian novelist and journalist. His novels explored matters of modern sexuality, social alienation, and existentialism....
, La noia - 1962 - Giorgio BassaniGiorgio BassaniGiorgio 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 BertoGiuseppe BertoGiuseppe 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:...
, Il male oscuro - 1965 - Goffredo PariseGoffredo PariseGoffredo Parise was an Italian writer and journalist. He won the Viareggio Prize in 1965 and the Strega Prize in 1982. He was an atheist.-References:...
, Il Padrone (The Boss) - 1966 - Alfonso GattoAlfonso GattoAlfonso Gatto was an Italian author. Along with Giuseppe Ungaretti and Eugenio Montale, he is one of the foremost Italian poets of the 20th century and a major exponent of hermetic poetry.-Biography:...
, La storia delle vittime - 1967 - Raffaello Brignetti, Il gabbiano azzurro
- 1968 - Libero Bigiaretti, La controfigura
- 1969 - Fulvio TomizzaFulvio TomizzaFulvio 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 AttardiUgo AttardiUgo Attardi was an Italian painter, sculptor and writer. His statue of Ulysses lies in Battery Park-Source:...
, L'erede selvaggio - 1972 - Romano Bilenchi, Il bottone di Stalingrado
- 1973 - Achille CampanileAchille CampanileAchille 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
- Fiction Paolo Volponi, Il sipario ducale
- Fiction, best first work Gavino LeddaGavino LeddaGavino Ledda is an author and a scholar of the Italian language and of Sardinian. He is best known for his autobiographical work Padre padrone .-Early life:...
, Padre padrone: l’educazione di un pastore
- 1976 - Mario TobinoMario TobinoMario 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...
, La bella degli specchi - 1977 - Davide Lajolo, Veder l'erba dalla parte delle radici
- 1978 - Antonio Altomonte, Dopo il presidente
- 1979 - Giorgio ManganelliGiorgio ManganelliGiorgio Manganelli was an Italian journalist, avant-garde writer and literary critic. A native of Milan, he was one of the leaders of the avant-garde literary movement in Italy in the 1960s. He was a baroque and expressionist writer. Manganelli translated Edgar Allan Poe's complete stories and...
, Centuria - 1980 - Stefano Terra, Terra Le porte di ferro
- 1981 - Enzo SicilianoEnzo SicilianoEnzo 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 LeviPrimo LeviPrimo Michele Levi was an Italian Jewish chemist and writer. He was the author of two novels and several collections of short stories, essays, and poems, but is best known for If This Is a Man, his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland...
, 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 MalerbaLuigi MalerbaLuigi Malerba was an Italian author who wrote short stories , historical novels, and screenplays, and who co-founded the Gruppo 63, based on Marxism and Structuralism...
, Le pietre volanti - 1993 - Alessandro BariccoAlessandro BariccoAlessandro 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 TabucchiAntonio TabucchiAntonio Tabucchi is an Italian writer and academic who teaches Portuguese language and literature at the University of Siena, Italy....
, Sostiene PereiraSostiene Pereira (novel)Sostiene Pereira is a novel written by Antonio Tabucchi in 1994. It follows Pereira, a journalist for the culture column of a small Lisbon newspaper, as he struggles with his conscience and the restrictions of the fascist regime of Antonio Salazar... - Poetry, Giovanni RaboniGiovanni 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...
, Ogni terzo pensiero - Essays, Chiara Frugoni, Francesco e l' invenzione delle stimmate
- Fiction, Antonio Tabucchi
- 1995 - Maurizio Maggiani, Il coraggio del pettirosso
- 1996 - Ermanno Rea, Mistero napoletano
- 1997 - Claudio Piersanti, Luisa e il silenzio
- 1998 - Giorgio PressburgerGiorgio PressburgerGiorgio Pressburger is an Italian writer of novels and short stories.Born in 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 StratenGiorgio van StratenGiorgio 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 VeronesiSandro VeronesiSandro 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
- Giorgio van Straten
- 2001
- Nicolò Ammaniti, Io non ho paura
- Michele Ranchetti, Verbale
- Giorgio PestelliGiorgio PestelliGiorgio Pestelli is an Italian musicologist.He is perhaps most notable for his 1967 edition of the 555 keyboard sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti, which purports to correct some anachronisms and provides an alternative numbering system to those of Alessandro Longo and Ralph Kirkpatrick .-Notes:...
, 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 CapriaRaffaele La CapriaRaffaele 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 ArbasinoAlberto ArbasinoAlberto Arbasino is an Italian writer and essayist.-Biography:Arbasino was born at Voghera, southern Lombardy. He studied at the University of Milan where he graduated in law. Later he worked as journalist for magazines such as Il Mondo and the newspaper La Repubblica...
, Marescialle e libertini - Poetry, Milo de AngelisMilo de AngelisMilo 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
- Fiction, Raffaele La Capria
- 2006
- Fiction, Gianni CelatiGianni CelatiGianni Celati is an Italian writer, translator and literary critic.- Biography :Gianni Celati was born in Sondrio, but spent his infancy and adolescence in the province of Ferrara...
, Vite di pascolanti - Essays, Giovanni Agosti, Su Mantegna I
- Poetry, Giuseppe Conte, Ferite e rifioriture
- First work, Roberto SavianoRoberto SavianoRoberto Saviano is an Italian writer and journalist.In his writings, articles, television programs, 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...
, Gomorra
- Fiction, Gianni Celati
- 2007
- Fiction, Filippo Tuena, Ultimo parallelo
- Essays, Paolo Mauri, Buio
- Poetry, Silvia Bre, Marmo
- 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)
- 2009
- Fiction, Edith Bruck, Quanta stella c’è nel cielo (Garzanti)
- Essays, Adriano Prosperi, Giustizia bendata (Einaudi)
- Poetry, Ennio Cavalli, Libro Grosso (Aragno)
- 2010
- Fiction, Nicola Lagioia, Riportando tutto a casa (Einaudi)
- Essays, Michele Emmer, Bolle di sapone. Tra arte e matematica (Bollati Boringhieri)
- Poetry, Pierluigi CappelloPierluigi CappelloPierluigi Cappello is an Italian poet, born in Gemona del Friuli, Italy, in 1967. He grew up in Chiusaforte.He won the 2010 Viareggio-Rèpaci prize for poetry with the poem Mandate a dire all'imperatore.-References:...
, Mandate a dire all’imperatore (Crocetti)