Flaiano Prize
Encyclopedia
The Flaiano Prize is an Italian international award recognizing achievement in the fields of theater, cinema, television, and literature (novel, poetry, and literary criticism). Established in honour of author and screenwriter Ennio Flaiano
and endowed with a purse of 5000€, the prize has been awarded annually since 1976 at the Teatro Monumentale Gabriele d’Annunzio in Pescara
, Flaiano’s hometown.
Ennio Flaiano
Ennio Flaiano , was an Italian screenwriter, playwright, novelist, journalist and drama critic...
and endowed with a purse of 5000€, the prize has been awarded annually since 1976 at the Teatro Monumentale Gabriele d’Annunzio in Pescara
Pescara
Pescara is the capital city of the Province of Pescara, in the Abruzzo region of Italy. As of January 1, 2007 it was the most populated city within Abruzzo at 123,059 residents, 400,000 with the surrounding metropolitan area...
, Flaiano’s hometown.
Literary Prize
- 1976: Emma Giammattei, Renato Minore
- 1977: Goffredo PariseGoffredo PariseGoffredo Parise was an Italian writer and journalist. He won the Viareggio Prize in 1965 and the Strega Prize in 1982. He was an atheist.-References:...
- 1978: Guido Ceronetti
- 1979: Mario PrazMario PrazMario Praz KBE was an Italian-born critic of art and literature, and a scholar of English literature. His best-known book, The Romantic Agony , was a comprehensive survey of the erotic and morbid themes that characterized European authors of the late 18th and 19th centuries...
- 1980: Mario Soldati
- 1981: Roberto Ridolfi
- 1982: Carlo Betocchi, Pietro CitatiPietro CitatiPietro Citati is a famous Italian writer and literary critic.He has written critical biographies of Goethe, Alexander the Great, Kafka and Marcel Proust as well as a short but unforgettable memoir on his thirty-year friendship with Italo Calvino.In Kafka, Pietro Citati has the great writer...
- 1983: Mimì Zorzi, Gino Bacchetti
- 1984: Antonio Altomonte, Gesualdo Bufalino
- 1985: Francesco Burdin, Raffaele La CapriaRaffaele La CapriaRaffaele La Capria is an Italian writer, known especially for the three novels which were collected as Tre romanzi di una giornata.-Biography:...
- 1986: Piero Chiara, Paolo Barbaro, Mario Rigoni Stern
- 1987: Gian Luigi Piccioli, Franca Rossi, Gaetano Afeltra
- 1988: Lorenzo Mondo, Giorgio Soavi
- 1989: Maria Corti, Fruttero & Lucentini
- 1990: Luigi Malerba, Claudio MagrisClaudio MagrisClaudio Magris is an Italian scholar, translator and writer.Magris graduated from the University of Turin, where he studied German studies, and has been a professor of modern German literature at the University of Trieste since 1978.He is an essayist and columnist for the Italian newspaper...
- 1991: John BanvilleJohn BanvilleJohn Banville is an Irish novelist and screenwriter.Banville's breakthrough novel The Book of Evidence was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and won the Guinness Peat Aviation award. His eighteenth novel, The Sea, won the Man Booker Prize in 2005. He was awarded the Franz Kafka Prize in 2011...
, Francesca Sanvitale, Antonio TabucchiAntonio TabucchiAntonio Tabucchi is an Italian writer and academic who teaches Portuguese language and literature at the University of Siena, Italy....
, Antonio Cibotto - 1992: Peter HandkePeter HandkePeter Handke is an avant-garde Austrian novelist and playwright.-Early life:Handke and his mother lived in the Soviet-occupied Pankow district of Berlin from 1944 to 1948 before resettling in Griffen...
, Giuliana Morandini, José Saramago - 1993: Jean-Marie Gustave Le ClézioJean-Marie Gustave Le ClézioJean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio , usually identified as J. M. G. Le Clézio, is a French author and professor. The author of over forty works, he was awarded the 1963 Prix Renaudot for his novel Le Procès-Verbal....
, Domenico Rea, Luis Sepúlveda - 1994: Manuel Vásquez Montalbán, Marie NDiaye, Giuseppe Pontiggia
- 1995: Daniele Del GiudiceDaniele Del GiudiceDaniele Del Giudice is an Italian author and lecturer. He lives in Venice, where he teaches Theatrical Literature at the University Iuav of Venice.-Prizes:*Viareggio Prize *Bergamo Prize...
, Allan Folsom, Jostein Gaarder - 1996: Enzo Bettiza, Paulo CoelhoPaulo CoelhoPaulo Coelho is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist.-Biography:Paulo Coelho was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He attended a Jesuit school. As a teenager, Coelho wanted to become a writer. Upon telling his mother this, she responded with "My dear, your father is an engineer. He's a logical,...
, Tahar Ben JellounTahar Ben JellounTahar Ben Jelloun is a Moroccan poet and writer. The entirety of his work is written in French, although his first language is Arabic.-Life:...
, Daniel PennacDaniel PennacDaniel Pennac is a French writer. He received the Prix Renaudot in 2007 for his essay Chagrin d'école.After studying in Nice he became a teacher...
, Abraham B.Yehoshua, Ken Saro-Wiwa (in his memory) - 1997: Tom ClancyTom ClancyThomas Leo "Tom" Clancy, Jr. is an American author, best known for his technically detailed espionage, military science, and techno thriller storylines set during and in the aftermath of the Cold War, along with video games on which he did not work, but which bear his name for licensing and...
, Dacia Maraini, Patrick Robinson - 1998: Andrea Camilleri, Daniel Chavarría, Ian McEwanIan McEwanIan Russell McEwan CBE, FRSA, FRSL is a British novelist and screenwriter, and one of Britain's most highly regarded writers. In 2008, The Times named him among their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945"....
- 1999: Vincenzo Consolo, Edwidge Danticat, Max Gallo
- 2000: Alex Garland, Javier Marías, Daniel Picouly, Fabrizia Ramondino
- 2001: Michèle Desbordes, Patrick McGrathPatrick McGrathPatrick McGrath was born on 7th February, 1950 in London and grew up near Broadmoor Hospital where his father was Medical Superintendent. He was educated at Stonyhurst College. He is a British novelist whose work has been categorized as gothic fiction...
, Roberto Pazzi - 2002: Peter Carey, Silvana Grasso, Per Olov EnquistPer Olov EnquistPer Olov Enquist, better known as P. O. Enquist, is a Swedish author. He has worked as a journalist, playwright and novelist...
- 2003: John CrowleyJohn CrowleyJohn Crowley is an American author of fantasy, science fiction and mainstream fiction. He studied at Indiana University and has a second career as a documentary film writer...
, Antonio Munoz Molina, Harry Mulish, Elisabetta Rasy, Nikolaj Spasskij - 2004: Aziz Chouaki, Paolo Di Stefano, David GrossmanDavid GrossmanDavid Grossman is an Israeli author. His books have been translated into more than 30 languages, and have won numerous prizes.He is also a noted activist and critic of Israeli policy toward Palestinians. The Yellow Wind, his non-fiction study of the life of Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied...
- 2005: Alberto Bevilacqua, Gianni Celati, Dacia Maraini, Raffaele Nigro, Domenico Starnone
- 2006: Raffaele La CapriaRaffaele La CapriaRaffaele La Capria is an Italian writer, known especially for the three novels which were collected as Tre romanzi di una giornata.-Biography:...
, Amara Lakhous, Enrique Vila-Matas - 2007: Hisham Matar
- 2008: Alberto Arbasino, Ismail KadaréIsmail KadareIsmail Kadare is an Albanian writer. He is known for his novels, although he was first noticed for his poetry collections. In the 1960s he focused on short stories until the publication of his first novel, The General of the Dead Army. In 1996 he became a lifetime member of the Academy of Moral...
, Alice MunroAlice MunroAlice Ann Munro is a Canadian short-story writer, the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work, a three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction, and a perennial contender for the Nobel Prize...
Super Flaiano of Literature
- 1991: John BanvilleJohn BanvilleJohn Banville is an Irish novelist and screenwriter.Banville's breakthrough novel The Book of Evidence was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and won the Guinness Peat Aviation award. His eighteenth novel, The Sea, won the Man Booker Prize in 2005. He was awarded the Franz Kafka Prize in 2011...
- 1992: José SaramagoJosé SaramagoJosé de Sousa Saramago, GColSE was a Nobel-laureate Portuguese novelist, poet, playwright and journalist. His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the human factor. Harold Bloom has described Saramago as "a...
- 1993: Luis SepúlvedaLuis SepúlvedaLuis Sepúlveda is a Chilean writer, film director, journalist and political activist.- Life :Luis Sepùlveda was born in Ovalle, Limarí Province...
- 1994: Giuseppe PontiggiaGiuseppe PontiggiaGiuseppe Pontiggia was an Italian writer and literary critic.He was born in Como, and moved to Milan with his family in 1948. In 1959 he graduated from the Università Cattolica in Milan with a thesis on Italo Svevo...
- 1995: Daniele Del GiudiceDaniele Del GiudiceDaniele Del Giudice is an Italian author and lecturer. He lives in Venice, where he teaches Theatrical Literature at the University Iuav of Venice.-Prizes:*Viareggio Prize *Bergamo Prize...
- 1996: Abraham B. Yehoshua
- 1997: Carlo Sgorlon
- 1998: Andrea CamilleriAndrea CamilleriAndrea Camilleri is an Italian writer.-Biography:Originally from Porto Empedocle, Sicily, Camilleri, began studies at the Faculty of Literature in 1944, without concluding them, meanwhile publishing poems and short stories.From 1948 to 1950 Camilleri studied stage and film direction at the Silvio...
- 1999: Edwidge Danticat
- 2000: Javier Marías, Fabrizia Ramondino
- 2001: Roberto PazziRoberto PazziRoberto Pazzi is an award winning Italian novelist and poet. His works have been translated into eighteen languages....
- 2002: Per Olov EnquistPer Olov EnquistPer Olov Enquist, better known as P. O. Enquist, is a Swedish author. He has worked as a journalist, playwright and novelist...
- 2003: John CrowleyJohn CrowleyJohn Crowley is an American author of fantasy, science fiction and mainstream fiction. He studied at Indiana University and has a second career as a documentary film writer...
- 2004: Paolo Di Stefano
- 2005: Raffaele Nigro
- 2006: Raffaele La CapriaRaffaele La CapriaRaffaele La Capria is an Italian writer, known especially for the three novels which were collected as Tre romanzi di una giornata.-Biography:...
- 2008: Alice MunroAlice MunroAlice Ann Munro is a Canadian short-story writer, the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work, a three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction, and a perennial contender for the Nobel Prize...
Poetry Prize
- 1986: Maria Luisa SpazianiMaria Luisa SpazianiMaria Luisa Spaziani is an Italian poet.She was born in Turin in 1924. At nineteen, Spaziani founded the review Il dado, working with collaborators such as Vasco Pratolini, Sandro Penna and Vincenzo Ciaffi. Virginia Woolf sent her a chapter of her novel The Waves, autographed to Alla piccola...
- 1987: Luciano Luisi
- 1988: Elio Filippo Accrocca
- 1989: Pietro Cimatti, Vivian Lamarque, Benito Sablone
- 1990: Edoardo Albinati, Dario Bellezza, Vico Faggi
- 1991: Renzo Barsacchi, Isabella Scalfaro, Massimo Scrignòli
- 1992: Marco Guzzi, Luciano Roncalli, Mario Trufelli
- 1993: Attilio BertolucciAttilio BertolucciAttilio Bertolucci was an Italian poet and writer. He is father to film directors Bernardo and Giuseppe Bertolucci.-Biography:...
, Cesare Vivaldi, - 1994: Piero Bigongiari
- 1995: Seamus HeaneySeamus HeaneySeamus Heaney is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer. He lives in Dublin. Heaney has received the Nobel Prize in Literature , the Golden Wreath of Poetry , T. S. Eliot Prize and two Whitbread prizes...
- 1996: Yves BonnefoyYves BonnefoyYves Bonnefoy is a French poet and essayist. Bonnefoy was born in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, the son of a railroad worker and a teacher....
- 1997: Miroslav HolubMiroslav HolubMiroslav Holub was a Czech poet and immunologist.Miroslav Holub's work was heavily influenced by his experiences as an Immunologist, writing many poems using his scientific knowledge to poetic effect. His work is almost always unrhymed, so lends itself easily to translation...
- 1998: Lawrence FerlinghettiLawrence FerlinghettiLawrence Ferlinghetti is an American poet, painter, liberal activist, and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers...
- 1999: Yang LianYang LianYang Lian is a Chinese poet associated with the Misty Poets and also with the Searching for Roots school. He was born in Bern, Switzerland in 1955 and raised in Beijing, where he attended primary school....
- 2000: Derek WalcottDerek WalcottDerek Alton Walcott, OBE OCC is a Saint Lucian poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992 and the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2011 for White Egrets. His works include the Homeric epic Omeros...
- 2001: Charles TomlinsonCharles TomlinsonAlfred Charles Tomlinson, CBE is a British poet and translator, and also an academic and artist. He was born and raised in Penkhull in the city of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.-Life:...
- 2002: AdonisAdonisAdonis , in Greek mythology, the god of beauty and desire, is a figure with Northwest Semitic antecedents, where he is a central figure in various mystery religions. The Greek , Adōnis is a variation of the Semitic word Adonai, "lord", which is also one of the names used to refer to God in the Old...
Italian Studies Prize
- 2002: Daniela Amsallem, Peter Kuon, Eanna O’Ceallachain, Joanna Ugniewska
- 2003: Ginette Herry, Mladen Machiedo, Millicent Marcus, Irmgard Scharold
- 2004: Smaranda Bratu Elian, Marcel Schneider, Tibor Szabo, Minoru Tanokura
- 2005: Federica Brunori Deigan, Gerard Marino, Rita Marnoto
- 2006: Larissa G. Stepanova, Ariel Rathaus, Lucia Re e Paul Vangelisti
- 2007: Teodolinda Barolini, Adel El Siwi, Dagmar Reichardt
- 2008: Michail Andreev, Laura Benedetti, Angela Barwig e Thomas Stauder
Special Prize
- 1999: Vittorio Emiliani
- 2001: Imre KertészImre KertészImre Kertész is a Hungarian Jewish author, Holocaust concentration camp survivor, and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002 "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history"....
- 2005: Wole SoyinkaWole SoyinkaAkinwande Oluwole "Wole" Soyinka is a Nigerian writer, poet and playwright. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, where he was recognised as a man "who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence", and became the first African in Africa and...
- 2006: Antonio SkármetaAntonio SkármetaAntonio Skármeta is a Chilean writer, born November 7, 1940 in Antofagasta, Chile. He was born to Croatian immigrants from the Adriatic island of Brač, region of Dalmatia....