World Literary Awards

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

Edition 72 (2001)

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Set in rural southern Italy, the novel follows a nine-year-old boy who stumbles onto a secret that exposes the clash between innocence and violence. The fierce summer light and the child's point of view sustain the tension to the end.

Through a child's gaze, it moves toward the cruelty waiting beyond the summer horizon.

208 pages
coming of agesuspenserural societyinnocence and violence

A poetic experiment that explores the rhythm and documentary force of language. Through fragments of the everyday and traces of recorded voice, it quietly examines the relation between memory and expression.

It sharpens the outline of poetry by letting language sound like record.

120 pages
poetrylanguagerecordexperimentation

A musicological study that reads Brahms through the theme of destiny. It examines the composer's expression from a broad perspective, grounding the discussion in musical structure and historical context.

It follows the feeling of destiny inside Brahms's music, moving between analysis and criticism.

203 pages
musicBrahmsmusicologycriticism

An essay collection that reads the relationship between myth and literature across time, tracing how classical divine figures return within modern literature. Its short chapters survey literary history on a wide scale.

Ancient gods reappear in modern literature in altered forms.

224 pages
mythologyliterary historycomparative culturecriticism