World Literary Awards

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

Edition 49 (1978)

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Winners

3 people
Antonio Altomonte あんとにお あるともんて Winner

A novelistic allegory about how power distorts people. Through the protagonist's perspective, the inheritance of domination and the emptiness that follows it come into focus.

It looks at what remains after power, shaped as an allegory.

223 pages
powerpoliticsallegorysocial critique
Mario Luzi まりお るーつぃ Winner

A poetry collection in which Luzi sharply probes the tensions among existence, history, and faith. Through fragments and leaps, it remeasures the distance between inner life and the world.

The poems emerge as questions lit by the fire of history.

104 pages
poetry collectionexistencehistoryfaithmodern Italian literature
Ludovico Zorzi るどゔぃこ ぞるつぃ Winner

A landmark study that rereads Italian theater through the relationship between architecture, city, and festival. Centered on Ferrara, Florence, and Venice, it follows how theatrical space is formed within cultural history.

The stage extends beyond the theater itself and into the city.

363 pages
theatercityarchitectureRenaissancecultural history