World Literary Awards

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

Edition 50 (1979)

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

Winners

3 people
Giorgio Manganelli じょるじょ まんがねっり Winner

An experimental book of one hundred short novels, linked by dreamlike invention and highly concentrated prose.

One hundred fragments reassemble the novel at a different speed.

214 pages
experimental fictionshort fiction cycleItalian literaturefable
Andrea Zanzotto あんどれあ ざんぞっと Winner

A poetry collection set against the Montello woods and the memory of World War I, moving between nature and culture, dialect and elevated poetic form.

History and voices settle into the layers of the forest.

117 pages
poetrylandscapewar memorylinguistic experimentItalian literature
Giuseppe Boffa じゅぜっぺ ぼっふぁ Winner

A broad history of the Soviet Union from the 1917 Revolution to the early Cold War, tracing political, social, and diplomatic change.

The rise of a revolutionary state is read as one continuous historical arc.

813 pages
Soviet historyrevolutionary historypolitical historyCold WarItalian history writing