Viareggio Prize (Premio Viareggio / Premio Letterario Viareggio-Rèpaci) Premio Viareggio-Rèpaci
Edition 68 (1997)
Literature prizeNovelPoetryCriticismDebut/Newcomer prizeInternational prize (international category)Special prize
Winners
3 people
Claudio Piersanti
Winner
An Italian novel moving between silence and affection.
Silence brings the shape of a relationship into view.
familysilenceloveItalian literature
Franca Grisoni
Winner
A work of poetic fragments linking everyday life with the feeling of travel.
Fragments compose a landscape.
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Corrado Stajano
Winner
A memoir of war and exile trauma that follows the problems of memory and healing.
Memory does not erase injury; it changes its shape.
288 pages
memoirwarexiletrauma