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Neustadt International Prize for Literature のいしゅたっとこくさいぶんがくしょう

Edition 1 (1970)

International literary awardLifetime achievementFor poetry, novels, and plays

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Giuseppe Ungaretti じゅぜっぺ うんがれってぃ Winner

Drawing on World War I and its aftermath, this compact poetry collection gathers severe, highly compressed lyrics in which war, loss, and renewal are distilled to their emotional core.

A sequence of severe, compressed poems that strip war and survival down to essentials.

128 pages
war and memoryexistencelinguistic compressionrenewal