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

Edition 71 (2000)

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Winners

4 people

A quietly layered family history that follows a Jewish-Dutch lineage through names, migration, and inherited memory. Starting from personal origins, it opens outward into a larger historical arc.

By tracing family memory, it turns private history into history itself.

275 pages
memoryfamily historyidentityhistory
Tiziano Rossi Winner

A poetry collection that catches the pace of the city and the fragments of everyday life, bringing modern isolation and friction into view through a poetic rhythm. Its short scenes leave behind a lingering sense of voice and atmosphere.

It turns the hurried pulse of people into poetry through a chain of fragments.

124 pages
poetrymodern societylonelinessurban life

A nonfiction investigation that uses archival reading and individual case studies to examine the structure and impact of the OVRA. It shows how fascist political policing turned surveillance and repression into a system.

It traces the web of political policing through the separate histories of victims and collaborators.

745 pages
fascismpolitical historysurveillancerepression

A novel in which a chance encounter with a stranger begins to unravel the secrets buried in a man's family and past. A single revelation shakes the foundations of fatherhood, marriage, and memory.

A single sentence from the past can collapse the shape of the present.

224 pages
familymemorypsychological dramasuspense