The Mondello Prize (Italian: Premio Mondello or Premio letterario internazionale Mondello Città di Palermo) is an Italian literary award established in 1975.
History
The award was founded by a group of
Palermo
Palermo ( ; ; , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital (political), capital of both the autonomous area, autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan province. The ...
intellectuals and academics, and was first directed by the magistrate Francesco Lentini until his death in 2000.
Since it is organized by a cultural foundation, .
Since 2012 the award has a partnership with the
Turin International Book Fair
The Turin International Book Fair () is Italy's largest trade fair for books, held annually in mid-May in Turin, Italy.
Founded in 1988 as Book Showroom (), it is one of the largest book fairs in Europe, involving more than 1,400 exhibitors and 3 ...
.
The same year it established an award for young writers, the Mondello Giovani Award.
Winners include
Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera ( ; ; 1 April 1929 – 11 July 2023) was a Czech and French novelist. Kundera went into exile in France in 1975, acquiring citizenship in 1981. His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, but he was granted Czech citizenship ...
in 1979, or
Cees Nooteboom
Cornelis Johannes Jacobus Maria "Cees" Nooteboom (; born 31 July 1933) is a Dutch novelist, poet and journalist. After the attention received by his novel '' Rituals'' (''Rituelen'', 1980), which won the Pegasus Prize, it was the first of his n ...
in 2017.
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1975 establishments in Italy
Awards established in 1975
Italian literary awards
Prize
A prize is an award to be given to a person or a group of people (such as sporting teams and organizations) to recognize and reward their actions and achievements.
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