Viareggio Prize (Premio Viareggio / Premio Letterario Viareggio-Rèpaci) Premio Viareggio-Rèpaci
Edition 51 (1980)
Winners
5 peopleSet 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.
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.
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?
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.
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.