The Bagutta Prize is an Italian

literary Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to includ ...

prize that is awarded annually to Italian writers. The prize originated among patrons of

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's ''Bagutta Ristorante''. The writer Riccardo Bacchelli discovered the restaurant and soon he regularly gathered numerous friends who would dine there together and discuss books. They began charging fines to the person who arrived last to an appointed meal, or who failed to appear. At first the funds so collected were spent on miscellaneous items, but on 11 November 1927 the group decided to use the funds to create a literary prize. They named it after the restaurant. Other directors of the prize include

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Mario Soldati Mario Soldati (17 November 1906 – 19 June 1999) was an Italian writer and film director. In 1954 he won the Strega Prize for ''Lettere da Capri.'' He directed several works adapted from novels, and worked with leading Italian actresses, s ...

and

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Prizewinners general prize

*1927 Giovan Battista Angioletti: ''Il giorno del giudizio'' (Ribet) *1928

Giovanni Comisso Giovanni Comisso (3 October 1895 – 21 January 1969) was an important Italian writer of the twentieth century, appreciated by Eugenio Montale, Umberto Saba, Gianfranco Contini and many others. Life Comisso was born in Treviso, where, during ...

: ''Gente di mare'' (Treves) *1929

Vincenzo Cardarelli Vincenzo Cardarelli, pseudonym of Nazareno Caldarelli (1 May 1887 – 18 June 1959) was an Italian poet and journalist. Cardarelli was born in Corneto, Lazio, in a family of Marche origin. His father was Antonio Romagnoli. His studies were irr ...

: ''Il sole a picco'' (Mondadori) *1930 Gino Rocca: ''Gli ultimi furono i primi'' (Treves) *1931

Giovanni Titta Rosa Giovanni Titta Rosa (5 March 1891 – 7 January 1972) was an Italian literary critic, poet, and novelist. Born in Santa Maria del Ponte, at that time frazione of Fontecchio, Titta Rosa graduated in letters at the University of Florence and the ...

: ''Il varco nel muro'' (Carabba) *1932

Leonida Rèpaci Leonida Rèpaci (Palmi, 5 April 1898 – Marina di Pietrasanta, 19 July 1985) was an Italian writer and political activist. He won the Bagutta Prize in 1933 and was one of the originators of the Viareggio Prize, with Carlo Salsa and Alberto Colan ...

: ''Storia dei fratelli Rupe'' (Ceschina) *1933 Raul Radice: ''Vita comica di Corinna'' (Ceschina) *1934 Carlo Emilio Gadda: ''Il castello di Udine'' ('' Solaria'') *1935

Enrico Sacchetti Enrico is both an Italian masculine given name and a surname, Enrico means homeowner, or king, derived from '' Heinrich'' of Germanic origin. It is also a given name in Ladino. Equivalents in other languages are Henry (English), Henri (French), E ...

: ''Vita di artista'' (Treves) *1936

Silvio Negro Silvio Negro (15 April 1897 – 3 November 1959) was an Italian essayist and journalist. Born in Chiampo, the son of a humble farmer, Negro was a mountain artillery officer during World War I, and also received several decorations. After the war, ...

: ''Vaticano minore'' (Hoepli) *1937-1946 Prize not awarded *1947

Dario Ortolani Dario is a masculine given name, etymologically related to Darius. Given name *Dario Allevi (born 1965), Italian politician *Dario Argento (born 1940), Italian film director *Dario Badinelli (born 1946), Italian triple jumper *Dario Bellezza (194 ...

: ''Il sole bianco'' Garzanti) *1948

Pier Antonio Quarantotti Gambini Pier Antonio Quarantotti Gambini (; February 23, 1910 – April 22, 1965) was an Italian writer and journalist, author of novels, poetry, and essays. Biography Quarantotti Gambini was born in Pisino, Istria, then part of Austria-Hungary, in an ...

: ''L'onda dell'incrociatore'' (Einaudi) *1949

Giulio Confalonieri Giulio Confalonieri (23 May 1896 - 29 June 1972) was an Italian musician, musicologist, composer and musical critic. Born in Milan, Confalonieri graduated in letters at the and in piano at the Bologna Conservatory. Between 1919 and 1920 he com ...

: ''Prigionia di un artista'' (Genio) *1950 Vitaliano Brancati: ''Il bell'Antonio'' (Bompiani) *1951 Indro Montanelli: ''Pantheon minore'' (Longanesi) *1952

Francesco Serantini Francesco, the Italian (and original) version of the personal name "Francis", is the most common given name among males in Italy. Notable persons with that name include: People with the given name Francesco * Francesco I (disambiguation), sever ...

: ''L'osteria del gatto parlante'' (Garzanti) *1953 Leonardo Borghese: ''Primo amore'' (Garzanti) *1954 Giuseppe Marotta: ''Coraggio, guardiano'' (Bompiani) *1955

Alfonso Gatto Alfonso Gatto (17 July 1909 – 8 March 1976) was an Italian writer. Along with Giuseppe Ungaretti and Eugenio Montale, he is one of the foremost Italian poets of the 20th century and a major exponent of hermetic poetry. Biography Gatto stud ...

: ''La forza degli occhi'' Mondadori) *1956 Giuseppe Lanza: ''Rosso sul lago'' (Cappelli) *1957

Pier Angelo Soldini Pier Angelo Soldini (25 May 1910 – 12 July 1974) was an Italian novelist, essayist and journalist. Born in Castelnuovo Scrivia, in 1935 Soldini won a special Viareggio Prize for best first work thanks to his debut novel ''Alghe e meduse''. In 1 ...

: ''Sole e bandiere'' (Ceschina) *1958

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: ''A passo d'uomo'' (Rebellato) *1959

Italo Calvino Italo Calvino (, also , ;. RAI (circa 1970), retrieved 25 October 2012. 15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian writer and journalist. His best known works include the '' Our Ancestors'' trilogy (1952–1959), the ''Cosmicomi ...

: ''Racconti'' (Einaudi) *1960 ** Enrico Emanuelli: ''Uno di New York'' (Mondadori) ** Antonio Barolini: ''Elegie di Croton'', (Feltrinelli) (''ex aequo'') *1961

Giorgio Vigolo Giorgio may refer to: * Castel Giorgio, ''comune'' in Umbria, Italy * Giorgio (name), an Italian given name and surname * Giorgio Moroder, or Giorgio, Italian record producer ** ''Giorgio'' (album), an album by Giorgio Moroder * "Giorgio" (song), ...

: ''Le notti romane'' (Bompiani) *1962

Giuseppe Dessì Giuseppe Dessì (7 August 1909 – 6 July 1977) was an Italian novelist, short-story writer and playwright from Sardinia. His novel ''Paese d'ombre'' won the 1972 Strega Prize and was translated into English as ''The Forests of Norbio''. Dess� ...

: ''Il dissertore'' (Feltrinelli) *1963

Ottiero Ottieri Ottiero Ottieri (1924–2002) was an Italian sociologist and writer. 1924 births 2002 deaths Italian sociologists {{Italy-sociologist-stub ...

: ''La linea gotica'' (Bompiani) *1964 Tommaso Landolfi: ''Rien va'' (Vallecchi) *1965 Biagio Marin: ''Il non tempo del mare'' (Mondadori) *1966

Manlio Cancogni Manlio is a given name. Notable people with the given name include: *Manlio Argueta (born 1935), Salvadoran writer, critic and novelist *Manlio Bacigalupo (1908–1977), Italian football player and manager *Manlio De Angelis (1935–2017), Italian ...

: ''La linea dei Tomori'' (Mondadori) *1967

Primo Levi Primo Michele Levi (; 31 July 1919 – 11 April 1987) was an Italian chemist, partisan, writer, and Jewish Holocaust survivor. He was the author of several books, collections of short stories, essays, poems and one novel. His best-known works ...

: ''Storie naturali'' (Einaudi) *1968 Piero Chiara: ''Il balordo'' (Mondadori) *1969

Niccolò Tucci Niccolò Tucci (May 1, 1908 – December 10, 1999) was a short story writer and novelist who wrote in English and Italian. Early life and family Tucci was born in Lugano, Switzerland, on 1 May 1908, to a Russian mother and an Italian father who be ...

: ''Gli atlantici'' (Garzanti) *1970

Alberto Vigevani Alberto is the Romance version of the Latinized form (''Albertus'') of Germanic ''Albert''. It is used in Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. The diminutive forms are ''Albertito'' in Spain or ''Albertico'' in some parts of Latin America, Albertin ...

: ''L'invenzione'' (Vallecchi) *1971

Piero Gadda Conti Piero Gadda Conti (13 February 1902 – 22 January 1999) was an Italian novelist and film critic. Born in Milan, the cousin of Carlo Emilio Gadda, he debuted as a novelist in 1924 with ''L' estusiastica estate''. He got his breakout in 1930 with ...

: ''La paura'' (Ceschina) *1972 Anna Banti: ''Je vous écris d'un pays lointain'' (Mondadori) *1973 Sergio Solmi: ''Meditazione sullo scorpione'' (Adelphi) *1974

Gianni Celati Gianni Celati (10 January 1937 – 3 January 2022) was an Italian writer, translator, and literary critic. Biography Gianni Celati was born in Sondrio, Italy, but spent his infancy and adolescence in the province of Ferrara. He graduated in En ...

: ''Le avventure di Guizzardi'' (Einaudi) *1975

Enzo Forcella Enzo Forcella (15 May 1921 – 9 February 1999) was an Italian essayist, historian and journalist. Biography Born in Rome, orphan of war, Forcella graduated at the Vittorio Emanuele II National Boarding School in Rome benefiting from a free post ...

: ''Celebrazioni d'un trentennio'' (Mondadori) *1976

: ''Lo specchio inclinato'' (Mondadori) *1977 Sandro Penna: ''Stranezze'' (Garzanti) *1878

Carlo Cassola Carlo Cassola (17 March 1917 – 29 January 1987) was an influential Italian novelist and essayist. His novel '' La Ragazza di Bube'' (1960), which received the Strega Prize, was adapted into a film of the same name by Luigi Comencini in 1963 ...

: ''L'uomo e il cane'' (Rizzoli) *1979

Mario Rigoni Stern Mario Rigoni Stern (1 November 1921 – 16 June 2008) was an Italian author and World War II veteran.Giovanni Macchia Giovanni Macchia (14 November 1912 - 30 September 2001) was an Italian literary critic and essayist. Born in Trani, the son of a magistrate, in 1923 Macchia moved with his family to Rome, where in 1934 he graduated in letters and philosophy with ...

: ''L'angelo della notte'' (Rizzoli) *1981

Pietro Citati Pietro Citati (20 February 1930 – 28 July 2022) was an Italian writer and literary critic. He was born in Florence. He wrote critical biographies of Goethe, Alexander the Great, Kafka and Marcel Proust as well as a short memoir on his thirty-ye ...

: ''Breve vita di Katherine Mansfield'' (Rizzoli) *1982 Vittorio Sereni: ''Il musicante di Saint-Merry'' (Einaudi) *1983 Giorgio Bassani: ''In rima e senza'' (Mondadori) *1984 Natalia Ginzburg: ''La famiglia Manzoni'' (Einaudi) *1985 Francesca Duranti: ''La casa sul lago della luna'' (Rizzoli) *1986 Leonardo Sciascia: ''Cronachette'' (Sellerio) *1987 Claudio Magris: ''Danubio'' (Garzanti) *1988 Luciano Erba: ''Il tranviere metafisico'' (Scheiwiller) *1989 Luigi Meneghello: ''Bau-sète!'' (Rizzoli) *1990 Fleur Jaeggy: ''I beati anni del castigo'' (Adelphi) *1991 Livio Garzanti: ''La fiera navigante'' (Garzanti) *1992

Giorgio Bocca Giorgio Valentino Bocca (28 August 1920 – 25 December 2011) was an Italian essayist and journalist, also known for his participation in the World War II partisan movement. Biography Bocca was born in Cuneo, Piedmont, the son of teachers, and ...

: ''Il provinciale'' (Mondadori) *1993

Giovanni Giudici Giovanni Giudici (26 June 1924, in Le Grazie – 24 May 2011, in La Spezia La Spezia (, or , ; in the local Spezzino dialect) is the capital city of the province of La Spezia and is located at the head of the Gulf of La Spezia in th ...

: ''Poesie 1953-1990'' (Garzanti) *1994 Alberto Arbasino: ''Fratelli d'Italia'' (Adelphi) *1995 Daniele Del Giudice: ''Staccando l'ombra da terra'' (Einaudi) *1996

Raffaello Baldini Raffaello Baldini (1924 in Santarcangelo di Romagna – 2005 in Milan) was an Italian writer and poet. His ''Ad nòta'' (1995) won the Premio Bagutta. Biography In the immediate postwar period, the young poets from Santarcangelo gathered at ...

: ''Ad nota'' (Mondadori) *1997

Sergio Ferrero Sergio Ferrero (21 December 1926 – 12 August 2008) was an Italian novelist. Born in Turin, Ferrero made his literary debut at 40 years old, with the novel ''Gloria''. In 1971, he was a finalist at the Strega Prize with the novel ''Il giuoco su ...

: ''Gli occhi del padre'' (Mondadori) *1998 Giovanni Raboni: ''Tutte le poesie (1951–1993)'' (Garzanti) *1999

Fabio Carpi Fabio Carpi (19 January 1925 – 26 December 2018) was an Italian director, screenwriter, and author. Life and career Born in Milan, in the 1940s Carpi began his career as a film critic for the newspapers ''Libera Stampa'' and '' L'Unità''. In ...

: ''Patchwork'' (Bollate Boringhieri) *2000 **

Andrea Zanzotto Andrea Zanzotto (10 October 1921 – 18 October 2011) was an Italian poet. Biography Andrea Zanzotto was born in Pieve di Soligo (province of Treviso, Veneto), Italy to Giovanni and Carmela Bernardi. His father, Giovanni (born 18 November 1 ...

: ''Le poesie e prose scelte'' (Mondadori) **

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: ''Mus utopicus'' (Gallino) *2001

Serena Vitale Serena Vitale (born 10 July 1945 Brindisi) is an Italian academic, scholar, writer, and translator. She won the 2001 Bagutta Prize. Life In 1958, she moved to Rome with her family. She was married to the poet Giovanni Raboni. In 2003 she marrie ...

: ''La casa di ghiaccio. Venti piccole storie russe'' (Mondadori) *2002 **

Roberto Calasso Roberto Calasso (30 May 1941 – 28 July 2021) was an Italian writer and publisher. Apart from his mother tongue, Calasso was fluent in French, English, Spanish, German, Latin and ancient Greek. He also studied Sanskrit. He has been called "a l ...

: ''La letteratura e gli dei'' (Adelphi) **

Giorgio Orelli Giorgio Orelli (May 25, 1921 – November 10, 2013) was an Italian-speaking Swiss poet, writer and translator. He was born in Airolo in the canton of Ticino and was educated at the University of Fribourg, where he was a student of the Roman ...

: ''Il collo dell'anitra'' (Garzanti) *2003 **

Michele Mari Michele Mari (born 26 December 1955) is an Italian novelist, short story writer, academic critic and poet. The son of a Milanese industrial designer and artist, Enzo Mari, Mari teaches Italian literature at the Università Statale di Milano; he i ...

: ''Tutto il ferro della Tour Eiffel'' (Einaudi) **

Edoardo Sanguineti Edoardo Sanguineti (9 December 1930 – 18 May 2010) was a Genoese poet, writer and academic, universally considered one of the major Italian authors of the second half of the twentieth century. Biography During the 1960s he was a leader of the ...

: ''Il gatto lupesco'' (Feltrinelli) **

Eva Cantarella Eva Cantarella (born 1936 in Rome) is an Italian classicist. She is professor of Roman law and ancient Greek law at the University of Milan, and has served as Dean of the Law School at the University of Camerino. Biography Cantarella is known ...

: ''Itaca'' (Feltrinelli) *2004

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: ''Le strane regole del sig. B'' (Garzanti) *2005

Rosetta Loy Rosetta Loy (15 May 1931 – 1 October 2022) was an Italian writer. She was the recipient of the Rapallo Carige Prize The Rapallo Carige Prize ( it, Premio Rapallo Carige per la donna scrittrice) is an Italian literary award, established in 198 ...

: ''Nero è l'albero dei ricordi, azzurra l'aria'' (Einaudi) *2006 **

Filippo Tuena Filippo is an Italian male given name, which is the equivalent of the English name Philip, from the Greek ''Philippos'', meaning "amante dei cavalli".''Behind the Name''"Given Name Philip" Retrieved on 23 January 2016. The female variant is Filip ...

: ''Le variazioni di Reinach'' (Rizzoli) **

Eugenio Borgna Eugenio is an Italian and Spanish masculine given name deriving from the Greek ' Eugene'. The name is Eugénio in Portuguese and Eugênio in Brazilian Portuguese. The name's translated literal meaning is well born, or of noble status. Similar de ...

: ''L'attesa e la speranza'' (Feltrinelli) *2007 Alessandro Spina: ''I confini dell'ombra'' (Morcelliana) *2008

Andrej Longo Andrej Longo (born Ischia, 1959) is an Italian writer, playwright and pizza-maker. He is a winner of the Bagutta Prize for literature. Life Andrej Longo was born in Ischia, Italy. His name was given in tribute to Leo Tolstoy's ''War and Peace''. ...

: ''Dieci'' (Adelphi) *2009

Melania Mazzucco Melania Gaia Mazzucco (born 6 October 1966) is an Italian author. She is a recipient of the Strega Prize and Bagutta Prize. Education and career Mazzucco graduated from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in 1990 and the Sapienza Univer ...

: ''La lunga attesa dell'angelo'' (Rizzoli) *2010 Corrado Stajano: ''La città degli untori'' (Garzanti) *2011

Andrea Bajani Andrea Bajani (born August 16, 1975) is an Italian novelist, poet, and journalist. After his debut with ''Cordiali saluti'' (Einaudi, 2005), it was ''Se consideri le colpe'' (Einaudi, 2007) which brought him a great deal of attention. Antonio Ta ...

: ''Ogni Promessa'' (MacLehose Press for the English edition, ''Every Promise'') *2012 ** Gianfranco Calligarich: ''Privati abissi'' (Fazi editore) ** Giovanni Mariotti: ''Il bene viene dai morti'' (Edizioni Et Al.) *2013 ** Antonella Tarpino: ''Spaesati. Luoghi dell'Italia in abbandono tra memoria e futuro'' (Einaudi) *2014 ** Maurizio Cucchi: ''Malaspina'' (Mondadori) ** Valerio Magrelli: ''Geologia di un padre'' (Einaudi) *2015 ** Sandro Veronesi: ''Terre rare'' (Bompiani) *2016 **

Paolo Di Stefano Paolo is both a given name and a surname, the Italian form of the name Paul. Notable people with the name include: People with the given name Paolo Art *Paolo Alboni (1671–1734), Italian painter * Paolo Abbate (1884–1973), Italian-America ...

: ''Ogni altra vita. Storia di italiani non illustri'' (Il Saggiatore) **

Paolo Maurensig Paolo Maurensig (26 March 1943 – 29 May 2021) was an Italian novelist, best known for his book ''Canone inverso'' (1996), a complex tale of a violin and its owners. Biography Maurensig was born in Gorizia, northern Italy. Before becoming a ...

: ''Teoria delle ombre'' (Adelphi) *2017 ** Vivian Lamarque: ''Madre d'inverno'' (Mondadori) *2018 **

Helena Janeczek Helena Janeczek (born 1964) is an Italian novelist of Polish Jewish origin. Life and career Helena Janeczek was born in Munich, Germany, from a Polish family of Jews who survived the Holocaust. She moved to Italy when she was 19 and has lived the ...

: ''La ragazza con la Leica'' (Guanda) *2019 **

Marco Balzano Marco Balzano (born 1978) is an Italian writer. He was born in Milan, where he now works as a teacher of literature in a high school. Balzano has written several acclaimed novels: * Il figlio del figlio, which won the Premio Corrado Alvaro for ...

: ''Resto qui'' (Einaudi) *2020 ** Enrico Deaglio: ''La bomba'' (Feltrinelli) *2021 ** Giorgio Fontana: ''Prima di noi'' (Sellerio) *2022 ** Benedetta Craveri: ''La contessa'' (Adelphi)

Prizewinners first book

*1987

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: ''La böba'' (San Marco dei Giustiniani) *1991

Bruno Arpaia Bruno Arpaia, born in Naples (Italy) in 1957, is an Italian writer and journalist. Life After his degree in political sciences and a specialisation in American history at the University of Naples, he taught there and then became a journalist with ...

: ''I forastieri'' (Leonardo) *1992 **

Antonio Franchini Anthony John Franchini (August 2, 1898 – September 17, 1997) was an American guitarist, most known for his Hawaiian guitar partnership with Frank Ferera, making him one of the most-recorded musicians of all time. After his time with Ferera, h ...

: ''Camerati. Quattro novelle su come diventare grandi'' (Leonardo) **

: ''Lo sguardo della paura'' (Leonardo) *1994 Laura Bosio: ''I dimenticati'' (Feltrinelli) *1995 Piero Meldini: ''L'avvocata delle vertigini'' (Adelphi) *1996 **

Carola Susani Carola Susani (born 1965) is an Italian writer. She was born in Marostica (Vicenza Vicenza ( , ; ) is a city in northeastern Italy. It is in the Veneto region at the northern base of the ''Monte Berico'', where it straddles the Bacchiglione ...

: ''Il libro di Teresa'' (Giunti) **

Alessandro Gennari Alessandro is both a given name and a surname, the Italian form of the name Alexander. Notable people with the name include: People with the given name Alessandro * Alessandro Allori (1535–1607), Italian portrait painter * Alessandro Bari ...

: ''Le ragioni del sangue'' (Garzanti) *1997

Patrizia Veroli Patrizia is a feminine Italian given name meaning "noble". Notable people with the name include: * Patrizia (singer), Italian-Canadian dramatic coloratura soprano who performs operatic rock * Patrizia von Brandenstein (born 1943), American prod ...

: ''Millos'' (LIM) *1998 **

: ''Lezioni di tenebra'' (Fazi) **

Andrea Kerbaker Andrea is a given name which is common worldwide for both males and females, cognate to Andreas, Andrej and Andrew. Origin of the name The name derives from the Greek word ἀνήρ (''anēr''), genitive ἀνδρός (''andrós''), that re ...

: ''Fotogrammi'' (Scheiwiller) *1999 ** Tommaso Giartosio: ''Doppio Ritratto'' (Fazi) **

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: ''Lourdes'' (Adelphi) *2000 **

: ''Mus utopicus'' (Gallino) ** Giovanni Chiara: ''L'agghiaccio'' (Marsilio) *2001 **

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: ''Kuraj'' (Feltrinelli) ** Luigi Guarnieri: ''L’atlante criminale. Vita scriteriata di Cesare Lombroso'' (Mondadori) *2002

Paolo Maccari Paolo is both a given name and a surname, the Italian form of the name Paul. Notable people with the name include: People with the given name Paolo Art *Paolo Alboni (1671–1734), Italian painter * Paolo Abbate (1884–1973), Italian-America ...

: ''Ospiti'' (Manni) *2003 Giuseppe Curonici: ''L'interruzione del Parsifal dopo il primo atto'' (Interlinea) *2004

Wanda Marasco Wanda is a female given name of Polish origin. It probably derives from the tribal name of the Wends.Campbell, Mike"Meaning, Origin, and History of the Name Wanda."''Behind the Name.'' Accessed on August 12, 2010. The name has long been popular i ...

: ''L'arciere d'infanzia'' (Manni) *2005 Sandro Lombardi: ''Gli anni felici. Realtà e memoria nel lavoro dell'attore'' (Garzanti) *2006

Ascanio Celestini Ascanio Celestini (born 1 June 1972) is an Italian actor, director, writer and playwright. Biography Born in Rome to parents with ancestry also from Lombardy and Veneto in northern Italy, Ascanio Celestini studied anthropology and literature ...

: ''Storie di uno scemo di guerra'' (Einaudi) *2007

Pierluigi Cappello Pierluigi Cappello (8 August 1967 – 1 October 2017) was an Italian poet. He was born in Gemona del Friuli, and raised in Chiusaforte Chiusaforte ( sl, Kluže, german: Klausen, fur, Sclûse) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of U ...

: ''Assetto di volo'' (Crocetti) *2008 Elena Varvello: ''L'economia delle cose'' (Fandango) *2009 Guido Rampoldi: ''La mendicante azzurra'' (Feltrinelli) *2010

Filippo Bologna Filippo is an Italian male given name, which is the equivalent of the English name Philip, from the Greek ''Philippos'', meaning "amante dei cavalli".''Behind the Name''"Given Name Philip" Retrieved on 23 January 2016. The female variant is Fil ...

: ''Come ho perso la guerra'' (Fandango) *2011 **

Alessio Torino Alessio is a mostly Italian male name, Italian form of Alexius. Individuals with the given name Alessio *Alessio Ascalesi (1872–1952), Italian cardinal * Alessio Boni (born 1966), Italian actor *Alessio Cerci (born 1987), Italian footballer * ...

: ''Undici decimi'' (Italic Pequod) **

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: ''Meglio dirselo'' (Rizzoli) *2012 Marco Truzzi: ''Non ci sono pesci rossi nelle pozzanghere'' (Instar) *2013

Laura Fidaleo Laura may refer to: People * Laura (given name) * Laura, the British code name for the World War I Belgian spy Marthe Cnockaert Places Australia * Laura, Queensland, a town on the Cape York Peninsula * Laura, South Australia * Laura Bay, a bay o ...

: ''Dammi un posto tra gli angeli'' (Nottetempo) *2014

Fabrizio Passanisi Fabrizio is an Italian first name, from the Latin word "Faber" meaning "smith" and may refer to: * Fabrizio Barbazza (born 1963), Italian Formula One driver * Fabrizio Barca (born 1954), Italian politician * Fabrizio Brienza (born 1969), Italian mo ...

: ''Bert il mago'' (Nutrimenti) *2015

Enrico Ragazzoni Enrico is both an Italian masculine given name and a surname, Enrico means homeowner, or king, derived from ''Heinrich'' of Germanic origin. It is also a given name in Ladino. Equivalents in other languages are Henry (English), Henri (French), Enri ...

: ''Una parete sottile'' (Neri Pozza) *2016 Nadia Terranova: ''Gli anni al contrario'' (Einaudi) *2017

Giulia Caminito Giulia may refer to: People * Giulia (given name) * Giulia (wrestler) (born 1994), English-born Italian-Japanese professional wrestler Places *Cappella Giulia, a chapel in St. Peter's Basilica, Rome * Friuli-Venezia Giulia, one of the 20 region ...

: ''La grande A'' (Giunti) *2018

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: ''Tutte le ragazze con una certa cultura hanno almeno un poster di un quadro di Schiele appeso in camera'' (SEM) *2019

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