World Literary Awards

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Viareggio Prize (Premio Viareggio / Premio Letterario Viareggio-Rèpaci) Premio Viareggio-Rèpaci

Edition 20 (1949)

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Winners

3 people
Arturo Carlo Jemolo あるとぅーろ・かるろ・じぇもろ Winner

A 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.

352 pages
church and statemodern historyreligion and politics
Libero De Libero りべろ・で・りべろ Winner

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.

81 pages
poetry collectionlandscapememoryrestraint
Renata Viganò れなーた・ゔぃがーにょ Winner

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.

246 pages
Resistancewomen's perspectivewarsolidaritysacrifice