Viareggio Prize (Premio Viareggio / Premio Letterario Viareggio-Rèpaci) Premio Viareggio-Rèpaci
Edition 64 (1993)
Literature prizeNovelPoetryCriticismDebut/Newcomer prizeInternational prize (international category)Special prize
Winners
3 people
Alessandro Baricco
Winner
A poetic novel in which disparate lives converge around the sea, loss, and the possibility of salvation.
At the shore, separate lives are pulled into one another.
226 pages
sealosssalvationensemble castmemory
Pier Luigi Bacchini
Winner
A poetry collection that layers natural observation with bodily sensation, studying the fine grain of life through plants and faces.
Veins of leaves and the outline of a face carry the texture of the world.
110 pages
poetrynaturebodyobservationlife
Antonio Gambino
Winner
A political and historical essay on how politics became mythologized in mass society and burdened with ever larger expectations.
Politics swelled into the ideal of transforming life as a whole.
240 pages
political thoughtmass societyEuropehistorydemocracy