World Literary Awards

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

Edition 21 (1950)

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Winners

2 people
Francesco Jovine ふらんちぇすこ・よゔぃね Winner

Le terre del Sacramento is a social novel set in rural southern Italy, examining how land ownership, poverty, religion, and tradition shape individual lives. Through peasant life and changes in the community, it asks what modernity and human dignity mean.

In the struggle over land, the dignity of both community and individual is put to the test.

274 pages
rural societyland ownershippovertysocial change
Carlo Bernari かるろ・べるなり Winner

Speranzella is a Naples novel that portrays working-class life and human relationships, depicting the hopes, disappointments, and subtle ties of a neighborhood community. It combines dialect and local color with a strong social realism.

In a narrow Naples street, hope and frustration cross in dense, vivid ways.

272 pages
urban working-class lifeNaplesrealismsociety