Viareggio Prize (Premio Viareggio / Premio Letterario Viareggio-Rèpaci) Premio Viareggio-Rèpaci
Edition 20 (1949)
Winners
3 peopleA study of the relationship between church and state in Italy over roughly a century. It examines secularization and the history of cooperation and conflict between ecclesiastical and political power through documentary evidence.
It rereads the tension between church and state as a central axis of modern Italian history.
A poetry collection that builds up sensory images and concise language to explore the relation between interior life and landscape in postwar Italian poetry. The tone is restrained, but seasonal and local memory emerge vividly.
It offers the texture of landscape in quietly restrained language.
Set against the Resistance in the final phase of World War II, the novel follows Agnese, a rural woman, as she moves from loss into active struggle. It quietly foregrounds women's perspective, solidarity, courage, and sacrifice.
Daily life itself turns into the force that carries her into resistance.