World Literary Awards

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

Edition 63 (1992)

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Winners

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Luigi Malerba Winner

A novel in which a painter-narrator follows a painting and the conversation it sparks to trace his own formation, solitude, and the felt experience of a world ruled by chance. As certainty begins to slip, the instability between art and life moves to the foreground.

A single painting becomes the doorway to a story about chance and solitude.

271 pages
novelchancesolitudeartist novelself-formation

A poetry collection in which short poems gather fragments of daily life and the texture of language while testing the border between what is seen and what remains hidden. Playful in impulse yet tightly controlled, it sharpens the outline of the world through precision and restraint.

In the game of blind man's buff, language feels its way toward the world's outline.

51 pages
poetrylanguageperceptioneveryday liferestraint

A collection of essays in intellectual history that uses the history of mnemonic arts to reconsider memory, imagination, and the role of forgetting. It shows that classical techniques are not relics but living practices that continue to reappear in new forms well into modernity.

Memory is not a fossil; it returns again and again in changed forms.

208 pages
intellectual historymemoryforgettingimaginationessay