World Literary Awards

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Edition 76 (2005)

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Winners

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A sequence of brief autobiographical pieces that reflect on ageing, memory, and the textures of everyday life.

From fragments of daily life, the feeling of ageing comes into view.

181 pages
autobiographyageingeveryday life

A lyrical poetry collection shaped by farewell, loss, and the emotional weight of parting.

The collection lets the feeling of farewell resonate through precise, concentrated language.

farewelllyric poetryloss

An essay collection that moves between criticism and recollection, evoking the music and theatrical culture of the 1950s.

Postwar Italian stages and music are reread in the light of memory.

music historyrecollectioncriticism

A tragicomic family novel about the Sonninos, a Roman Jewish bourgeois family, combining memory, social satire, and inherited neuroses.

The novel shows a family falling apart with both bite and comic force.

family novelsatirememory