Viareggio Prize (Premio Viareggio / Premio Letterario Viareggio-Rèpaci) Premio Viareggio-Rèpaci
Edition 55 (1984)
Winners
8 peopleTosca dei gatti is a novel that delicately portrays a woman’s inner life and the atmosphere of her community against a backdrop of family, memory, and attachment to place. Illness, affection, and everyday detail accumulate into a quiet emotional tide.
Deep feeling quietly fills the texture of ordinary life.
A scholarly work that reads the social function and reception of ancient Greek poetry through the relationship between oral tradition and written form. Covering the arc from Homer to the classical period, it examines the relation between poet, patron, and audience.
The book repositions Greek poetry through the relationship between readers and listeners.
A poetry collection gathering work from 1980 to 1983. Through an avant-garde voice and fragmented imagery, it blends urban sensibility with interior monologue.
A sequence of poems assembled through fragments and leaps.
A memoir by Leo Valiani that traces anti-fascist experience and the political history of Italy in the 1930s and 1940s in autobiographical form.
It draws the political turning points of modern Italy from personal memory.
A biography of Martin Luther that traces his intellectual formation, the development of the Reformation, and the link between personal and historical experience.
It follows Luther's life within the unfolding Reformation.
A brief poetry collection by Pier Mario Fasanotti. It uses shifts in imagery and texture to give lyrical charge to fragments of everyday life.
Small words are enough to bring a poem into focus.
A memoir by Primo Conti in which his artistic life is interwoven with testimony about twentieth-century Italian culture.
Memory becomes a record of art history itself.