World Literary Awards

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

Edition 64 (1993)

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Winners

3 people

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

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

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