World Literary Awards

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Edition 92 (2021)

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Winners

5 people
Edith Bruck えでぃと・ぶるっく Winner

The author, a survivor of Auschwitz, traces childhood loss, the dislocation of exile, and the long wandering that eventually led her to Italy. Memory and testimony return with the physical texture of a life that endured after the war.

To carry forward what was lost becomes a duty of survival.

128 pages
Holocaustmemorysurvivalexiletestimony
Flavio Santi ふらゔぃお・さんてぃ Winner

This volume gathers poems written between 1999 and 2019 and moves between luminous observations, social memory, and the feeling of fragmented beginnings. The texture of everyday life and the pressure of history overlap without losing tension.

A chain of fragments brings back the texture of long time.

106 pages
poetrymemorytimefragmentssocial life
Walter Siti うぉるたー・しーてぃ Winner

This essay confronts the question of whether literature should heal, defending the ambiguity and danger that resist reduction to good intentions or simple instruction. It becomes a sharp and unsettling rebuttal to an age that wants books to be useful.

A quiet act of resistance against turning literature into a tool of goodwill.

272 pages
literary criticismessayethicsambiguitycontemporary literature
Alessandra Carati あれっさんどら・からーてぃ Winner

Seen through the eyes of Aida, a girl who flees Bosnia for Italy, the novel follows family breakdown and reassembly, the memory of war, and a long search for belonging. A private coming-of-age story expands into the history of displacement.

After losing home, can a place to return to still be made?

271 pages
warBosniafamilycoming of agedisplacement
Roberto Benigni ろべると・べにーに Special Award