World Literary Awards

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

Edition 39 (1968)

Literature prizeNovelPoetryCriticismDebut/Newcomer prizeInternational prize (international category)Special prize

Winners

5 people
Libero Bigiaretti りべろ びじゃれってぃ Winner

The novel uses doubles and masks to explore how personal identity blurs in modern life.

The novel uses doubles and masks to explore how personal identity blurs in modern life.

Italian literatureidentitymasksmodernity
Giorgio Vigolo じょるじょ びごろ Winner

A poetry collection in which memory and light move between private recollection and the city’s emotional landscape.

A poetry collection in which memory and light move between private recollection and the city’s emotional landscape.

poetrymemorylightcity
Giuliano Procacci じゅりあーの ぷろかっち Winner

Procacci presents the history of Italians as a long social and political formation rather than a fixed national essence.

Procacci presents the history of Italians as a long social and political formation rather than a fixed national essence.

478 pages
Italian historyhistoriographysocial historypolitical history
Giulio Cattaneo じゅりお かったねお Winner

Through a figure shaped by change and restlessness, the novel probes modernity and personal ambition.

Through a figure shaped by change and restlessness, the novel probes modernity and personal ambition.

Italian literaturemodernitycharacterrestlessness
Franco Basaglia ふらんこ ばざーりあ Special Award

A foundational anti-psychiatry text that documents criticism of the asylum system and argues for a different model of care.

A foundational anti-psychiatry text that documents criticism of the asylum system and argues for a different model of care.

380 pages
psychiatryinstitutional critiquemedicinereform