World Literary Awards

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Edition 51 (1980)

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Winners

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Stefano Terra すてふぁの てっら Winner

Set against postwar Europe, this novel follows characters suspended between a journalist's gaze and revolutionary ideals. Beginning on a train to the 1946 Paris Peace Conference, it slowly deepens the tension between idealism and reality, politics and private loyalties.

A novel that captures the unstable balance of postwar Europe through two alter egos of the author.

198 pages
postwar Europethe Cold Waridealism and realityjournalism
Luciano Erba るちあーの えるば Winner

A poetry collection that cuts through urban daily life and the texture of language in short lines, creating a back-and-forth movement of thought. Familiar scenes suddenly reveal another face, and that quiet observation becomes the book's driving force.

Familiar scenes suddenly reveal another face.

142 pages
urban imageryeveryday observationverbal inversioncontemporary poetry
Elvio Fachinelli えるゔぃお ふぁきねっり Winner

From one person's attempt to stop time and undo what has happened, this psychoanalytic essay expands toward denial of death, history, and fascism. Rather than simply equating individual experience with social structure, it tries to discern the shape of the difference between them.

How far can the desire to stop time change a person, and history itself?

210 pages
psychoanalysistimedenial of deathfascismindividual and society
Olivo Bin おりーゔぉ びん Winner

An opera prima that portrays the daily life and sense of dead end of young people in Conegliano with a mix of sadness and humor. The search for work, for someone to talk to, and for meaning itself comes into focus within the contours of a small town.

A story of young people in a small town, where sadness and humor coexist.

182 pages
small-town lifeyouthworkeveryday dead endsdebut work
Leo Solari れお そらーり Special Award

A biographical essay in which Leo Solari, a friend and collaborator, traces the life and political thought of Eugenio Colorni. It presents, in layered form, a trajectory that runs through anti-fascism, socialism, and European federalism, using testimony and recollection.

Written by a friend, it brings Colorni's thought and action into sharp relief.

194 pages
biographyanti-fascismEuropean federalismsocialismpolitical thought