World Literary Awards

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Edition 53 (1982)

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Winners

6 people
Primo Levi ぷりも れーゔぃ Winner

A historical novel set in Eastern Europe during World War II, following Jewish partisans on the move and in solidarity. Through flight and resistance, it explores memory, moral choice, and human dignity.

The journey of those who choose to resist illuminates the darker contours of history.

352 pages
World War IIJewish partisansresistancememorysurvival
Vittorio Sereni ゔぃっとりお せれーに Winner

Vittorio Sereni's final poetry collection gathers his late poems into a work marked by domestic scenes, unstable memory, and the quiet fragility of time.

Beneath its quiet voice, daily life keeps trembling like an unstable star.

89 pages
poetrymemorytimedomestic lifeloss
Luigi Lombardi Satriani るいーじ ろんばるでぃ さとりあーに Winner

A co-authored study that reads beliefs and rituals around death in southern Italian peasant society through folklore and anthropology. It explores the relationship between the living and the dead as a question of cultural history.

The dead are not distant presences; they continue to live within the community.

489 pages
folkloreanthropologydeath ritualssouthern Italyritual culture
Mariano Meligrana まりあーの めりぐらーな Winner

A debut novel built around a young woman's portrait, where family, memory, and social gaze intersect. Its character-driven focus leaves the impression of a true portrait, as the title suggests.

To portray one woman is to outline an era and a family at the same time.

364 pages
debut novelfamilyfemale portraitmemoryfiction
Graziella Civiletti ぐらつぃえっら ちゔぁれってぃ Winner

Patrizia Valduga's debut poetry collection foregrounds rhythm and the exposed body. Using strict classical forms, it turns desire and pain into tense, exact language.

Within the discipline of form, feeling sounds even more vivid.

67 pages
poetrydebut workthe bodydesireformal verse
Maria Fida Moro まりあ ふぃーだ もろ Special Award

A memoir in which Aldo Moro's daughter layers family memory over the wounds of contemporary Italian history. In the form of intimate recollection, it quietly bears the weight of a public tragedy.

Tracing the memory of a house becomes a way of touching the pain of a nation.

128 pages
memoirfamilyAldo Moromemorycontemporary history