Viareggio Prize (Premio Viareggio / Premio Letterario Viareggio-Rèpaci) Premio Viareggio-Rèpaci
Edition 90 (2019)
Winners
9 peopleSet in 1980s Rome, the book follows a young narrator through memories of photographer Arturo Patten, critic Cesare Garboli, and poet Amelia Rosselli. Autobiographical fiction and essay overlap in a meditation on art, melancholy, and the power of illusion.
Dreams and fables are told not to escape reality but to bear life.
Renato Minore’s poetry collection addresses thought as an intimate presence, layering memory, feeling, and the anticipation of a future. It is a quiet book of reflection where the intelligence of a critic meets the lyricism of a poet.
A voice addressing dear thought looks at life before it becomes memory.
A substantial study of Tommaso Campanella that reads his thought through apocalyptic interpretations of history and the idea of universal government. It follows imprisonment, papal and French contexts, and political conflict to show how philosophy, religion, and power converge in his work.
A study that links prophecy, politics, prison, and world government to restore the historical reach of Campanella's thought.
Dolore Minimo is a poetry collection about gender transition and the rebirth of the self. Against Sicilian landscapes, family memory, myth, and religion, it follows a body in transformation and a language that brings a new self into being with both pain and light.
A fierce and delicate poetic record of a lost name and a body born again through pain.