The Premio Brancati Zafferana, more concisely known as the Premio Brancati, is a

literary prize A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author. Organizations Most literary awards come with a corresponding award ceremony. Man ...

named in memory of the Italian writer

Vitaliano Brancati Vitaliano Brancati (; 24 July 1907 – 25 September 1954) was an Italian novelist, dramatist, poet and screenwriter. Biography Born in Pachino, Syracuse, Brancati studied in Catania, where he graduated in letters and where he spent most of h ...

Background

The Premio Brancati was launched in 1967. Originally a single award, the prize has been given since 1996 in the categories of narrative fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and, since 2015, emerging young writer. The winners in each category are announced over the course of several days at a convention held in September every year in

Zafferana Etnea Zafferana Etnea (; ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Catania in the Italian region Sicily, located about southeast of Palermo and about north of Catania. The municipality of Zafferana Etnea contains the ''frazioni ...

Sicily Sicily (Italian language, Italian and ), officially the Sicilian Region (), is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian Peninsula in continental Europe and is one of the 20 regions of Italy, regions of Italy. With 4. ...

, Italy, where Brancati customarily spent part of each year and where one of his novels, '' Paolo il caldo'', was set.

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