The Grinzane Cavour Prize (1982–2009) was an Italian literary award established in 1982 by Francesco Meotto. The annual award ceremony took place in the medieval castle of

Grinzane Cavour Grinzane Cavour is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Cuneo in the Italian region Piedmont, located about southeast of Turin and about northeast of Cuneo. Grinzane Cavour borders the municipalities of Alba and Diano d'Alba. Origina ...

. The goal of the prize was to attract young people to read. The voting system was divided into two phases: first, a jury of literary critics selected finalists, and then they chose an overall winner from the pool of finalists. Special prizes for best new author and lifetime achievement were also awarded. The Grinzane Cavour Prize Association was dissolved on 31 March 2009 as a result of the implication of the organization's president, Giuliano Soria, in an embezzling scheme. Soria used the Grinzane Cavour Prize to gain €4.5 million in government grants which he then appropriated for his personal use. The assets of the organization were acquired by the Monforte d'Alba Bottari Lattes cultural foundation at a bankruptcy auction in 2010.

Prizes

Best Italian Fiction

Finalists, winners in bold * 1982 ** Gennaro Manna ''La casa di Napoli'' **

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

''Lilit'' ** Antonio Terzi ''La fuga delle api'' * 1983 ** Giorgio Vigolo ''La Virgilia'' ** Raffaele Crovi ''Fuori del paradiso'' ** Cesare Greppi ''I testimoni'' * 1984 ** Luca Desiato ''Galileo mio padre'' ** Virgilio Scapin ''La giostra degli arcangeli'' **

Antonio Tabucchi Antonio Tabucchi (; 24 September 1943 – 25 March 2012) was an Italian writer and academic who taught Portuguese language and literature at the University of Siena, Italy. Deeply in love with Portugal, he was an expert, critic and translator o ...

'' Donna di Porto Pim'' * 1985 **

Sebastiano Vassalli Sebastiano Vassalli (24 October 1941 – 26 July 2015) was an Italian author. He wrote the 2007 novel ''The Italian (L'italiano)''. Vassalli was born in Genoa, Italy in 1941. His mother was from Tuscany and his father was from Lombardy. At a v ...

''La notte della cometa'' ** Paolo Barbaro ''Malalali'' ** Giuseppe Bonura ''Il segreto di Alias'' * 1986 ** Giorgio Prodi ''Lazzaro'' ** Gianni Celati '' Narratori delle pianure'' ** Luigi Santucci ''Il ballo della sposa'' * 1987 ** Franco Ferrucci ''Il mondo creato'' **

Ermanno Olmi Ermanno Olmi (24 July 1931 – 7 May 2018)Lane, John Francis (May 7, 2018).Ermanno Olmi obituary. ''The Guardian''. theguardian.com. Retrieved 11 May 2018. was an Italian film director and screenwriter best known for directing '' Il Posto'' ( ...

''Ragazzo della Bovisa'' ** Nico Orengo ''Dogana d'amore'' * 1988 **

Vincenzo Consolo Vincenzo Consolo (18 February 1933 – 21 January 2012) was an Italian writer. Consolo was born in Sant'Agata di Militello but resided in Milan from 1969 until his death. He began his literary career in 1963, but gained wider attention in 197 ...

Retablo A retablo is a devotional painting, especially a small popular or folk art one using iconography derived from traditional Catholic church art. More generally ''retablo'' is also the Spanish term for a retable or reredos above an altar, whether ...

'' ** Manlio Cancogni ''Il genio e niente'' ** Lalla Romano ''Nei mari estremi'' * 1989 **

Luigi Malerba Luigi Malerba (11 November 1927 – 8 May 2008), born Luigi Bonardi, was an Italian author known for his short stories, historical novels, and screenplays. He was a prominent figure in the Neoavanguardia movement and co-founded ''Gruppo 63'', a l ...

''Testa d'argento'' ** Stefano Jacomuzzi ''Un vento sottile'' ** Raffaele La Capria ''La neve del Vesuvio'' * 1990 ** Roberto Pazzi ''Vangelo di Giuda'' ** Cecilia Kin ''Autoritratto in rosso'' ** Alberto Vigevani ''La casa perduta'' * 1991 ** Giorgio Calcagno ''Il gioco del prigioniero'' ** Roberto Mussapi ''Tusitala'' ** Ferruccio Parazzoli ''1994 - La nudità e la spada'' * 1992 ** Gianni Riotta ''Cambio di stagione'' ** Paola Capriolo ''Il doppio regno'' **

Vincenzo Cerami Vincenzo Cerami (2 November 1940 – 17 July 2013) was an Italian screenwriter A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a person who practices the craft of writing for visual mass media, known as screenwritin ...

''L'ipocrita'' * 1993 ** Raffaele Nigro ''Ombre sull'Ofanto'' ** Cordelia Edvardson ''La principessa delle ombre'' **

Salvatore Mannuzzu Salvatore Mannuzzu (7 March 1930 – 10 September 2019) was an Italian writer, politician, and magistrate. Life Mannuzzu was born in Pitigliano. He was a magistrate until 1976 and a member of the Italian Parliament until 1987. He is considered ...

''La figlia perduta'' * 1994 ** Rossana Ombres ''Un dio coperto di rose'' ** Guido Ceronetti ''D.D. Deliri Disarmati'' ** Laura Pariani ''Di corno o d'oro'' * 1995 ** Luca Doninelli ''Le decorose memorie'' ** Alberto Arbasino ''Mekong'' ** Francesco Biamonti ''Attesa sul mare'' * 1996 ** Mario Rigoni Stern ''Le stagioni di Giacomo'' ** Paolo Barbaro ''La casa con le luci'' ** Rosetta Loy ''Cioccolata da Hanselmann'' * 1997 ** Marco Lodoli ''Il vento'' ** Paolo di Stefano ''Azzurro, troppo azzurro'' ** Gina Lagorio ''Il bastardo'' * 1998 ** Daniele Del Giudice ''Mania'' ** Silvana La Spina ''L'amante del Paradiso'' ** Alessandro Tamburini ''L'onore delle armi'' * 1999 ** Aurelio Picca ''Tuttestelle'' ** Sergio Givone ''Favola delle cose ultime'' ** Fabrizia Ramondino ''L'isola riflessa'' * 2000 ** Filippo Tuena ''Tutti i sognatori'' ** Luca Doninelli ''La nuova era'' ** Laura Pariani ''La signora dei porci'' * 2001 ** Diego Marani '' New Finnish Grammar'' (''Nuova grammatica finlandese'') ** Giuseppe Bonura ''Le notti del cardinale'' ** Manlio Cancogni ''Il mister'' * 2002 ** Margaret Mazzantini '' Non ti muovere'' ** Arnaldo Colasanti ''Gatti e scimmie'' ** Romana Petri ''La donna delle Azzorre'' * 2003 ** Boris Biancheri ''Il ritorno a Stomersee'' ** Alberto Asor Rosa ''L'alba di un mondo nuovo'' ** Clara Sereni ''Passami il sale'' * 2004 ** Elena Gianini Belotti ''Prima della quiete'' ** Marina Jarre ''Ritorno in Lettonia'' ** Andrea Vitali '' Una finestra vistalago'' * 2005 ** Alessandro Perissinotto ''Al mio giudice'' ** Eraldo Affinati ''Secoli di gioventu'' ** Maria Pace Ottieri ''Abbandonami'' * 2006 ** Tullio Avoledo ''Tre sono le cose misteriose'' ** Silvia Di Natale ''L’ombra del cerro'' ** Silvana Grasso ''Disio'' * 2007 ** Marcello Fois ''Memoria del vuoto'' ** Gianni Clerici ''Zoo'' ** Rosa Matteucci ''Cuore di mamma'' * 2008 ** Michele Mari ''Verderame'' ** Elisabetta Rasy ''L’estranea'' ** Serena Vitale ''L’imbroglio del turbante''

Best Foreign Fiction

Finalists, winners in bold * 1982 **

Michael Crichton John Michael Crichton (; October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008) was an American author, screenwriter and filmmaker. His books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and over a dozen have been adapted into films. His literary works heavil ...

'' Congo'' ** Tadeusz Konwicki ''Mała apokalipsa'' (''A Minor Apocalypse'') ** Vladimir Maksimov ''Сага о Савве'' (''The Ballad of Sawa'') * 1983 **

Yuri Rytkheu Yuri Sergeyevich Rytkheu ( rus, Ю́рий Серге́евич Рытхэ́у, , ˈjʉrʲɪj sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ rɨtˈxɛʊ; ; 8 March 1930 – 14 May 2008) was a Chukchi people, Chukchi writer, who wrote in both his native Chukchi ...

''Сон в начале тумана'' (''A Dream in a Polar Fog'') **

Jorge Amado Jorge Amado ( 10 August 1912 – 6 August 2001) was a Brazilian writer of the modernist school. He remains the best-known of modern Brazilian writers, with his work having been translated into some 49 languages and popularized in film, includi ...

'' Os Pastores da Noite'' ** Thomas Bernhard '' Verstörung'' * 1984 **

Nathalie Sarraute Nathalie Sarraute (; born Natalia Ilinichna Tcherniak (); – 19 October 1999) was a French writer and lawyer. She was nominated in 1969 for the Nobel Prize in Literature by Nobel Committee member Lars Gyllensten. Personal life Sarraute wa ...

''Enfance'' (''Childhood'') ** Yordan Radichkov ''Верблюд'' ** Amos Tutuola '' My Life in the Bush of Ghosts'' * 1985 ** Truls Øra ''Romanen om Helge Hauge'' **

Nadine Gordimer Nadine Gordimer (20 November 192313 July 2014) was a South African writer and political activist. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991, recognised as a writer "who through her magnificent epic writing has ... been of very great ben ...

July's People ''July's People'' is a 1981 novel by the South African writer Nadine Gordimer. It is set in a near-future version of South Africa where apartheid is ended through a civil war. Unlike Gordimer's earlier work, the novel was ignored by the apartheid ...

'' **

Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut ( ; November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American author known for his Satire, satirical and darkly humorous novels. His published work includes fourteen novels, three short-story collections, five plays, and five nonfict ...

'' Deadeye Dick'' * 1986 **

Bernard-Henri Lévy Bernard-Henri Georges Lévy (; ; born 5 November 1948) is a French public intellectual. Often referred to in France simply as BHL, he was one of the leaders of the " Nouveaux Philosophes" (New Philosophers) movement in 1976. His opinions, politi ...

''Le Diable en tête'' ** Daniel O. Fagunwa ''

Ògbójú Ọdẹ nínú Igbó Irúnmọlẹ̀ ''Ògbójú Ọdẹ nínú Igbó Irúnmọlẹ̀'' () is the first novel written by the Yoruba language, Yorùbá author Daniel O. Fagunwa, D. O. Fágúnwà. It was published by the Church Mission Society, Church Missionary Society Bookshop, La ...

'' (''Forest of a Thousand Demons'') **

Mario Vargas Llosa Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa (28 March 1936 – 13 April 2025) was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist and politician. Vargas Llosa was one of the most significant Latin American novelists and essayists a ...

''Historia de Mayta'' (''The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta'') * 1987 **

Graham Swift Graham Colin Swift FRSL (born 4 May 1949) is a British people, British writer. Born in London, UK, he was educated at Dulwich College, Queens' College, Cambridge, and later the University of York. Career Some of Swift's books have been filmed ...

Waterland Waterland () is a List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Netherlands, in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of North Holland. It is situated north of Amsterdam, on the western shore of the Markermeer. It includes t ...

'' ** Jean Lévi ''Le Grand Empereur et ses automates'' (''The Chinese Emperor'') **

José Saramago José de Sousa Saramago (; 16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010) was a Portuguese people, Portuguese writer. He was the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony O Ano da Morte de Ricardo Reis'' * 1988 ** Wilma Stockenström ''Die kremetartekspedisie'' (''The Expedition to the Baobab Tree'') **

Julian Barnes Julian Patrick Barnes (born 19 January 1946) is an English writer. He won the Man Booker Prize in 2011 with ''The Sense of an Ending'', having been shortlisted three times previously with ''Flaubert's Parrot'', ''England, England'', and ''Arthu ...

'' Flaubert's Parrot'' ** Eduardo Mendoza Garriga '' La ciudad de los prodigios'' * 1989 **

Doris Lessing Doris May Lessing ( Tayler; 22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) was a British novelist. She was born to British parents in Qajar Iran, Persia, where she lived until 1925. Her family then moved to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where ...

'' The Fifth Child'' ** Leonid Borodin ''Расставание'' (''Partings'') ** Marvel Moreno ''En diciembre llegaban las brisas'' (''December Breeze'') * 1990 ** Alfredo Conde ''Xa vai o griffon no vento'' ** Thorsten Becker ''Die Bürgschaft'' ** Tatyana Tolstaya ''На золотом крыльце сидели…'' (''On the Golden Porch, and Other Stories'') * 1991 **

Michel Tournier Michel Tournier (; 19 December 1924 − 18 January 2016) was a French writer. He won awards such as the '' Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française'' in 1967 for '' Friday, or, The Other Island'' and the Prix Goncourt for '' The Erl-King'' ...

''Le médianoche amoureux'' (''The Midnight Love Feast'') **

Ian McEwan Ian Russell McEwan (born 21 June 1948) is a British novelist and screenwriter. In 2008, ''The Times'' featured him on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945" and ''The Daily Telegraph'' ranked him number 19 in its list of the ...

'' Black Dogs'' **

Edna O'Brien Josephine Edna O'Brien (15 December 1930 – 27 July 2024) was an Irish novelist, memoirist, playwright, poet and short-story writer. O'Brien's works often revolve around the inner feelings of women and their problems relating to men and soc ...

'' Girl with Green Eyes'' * 1992 ** Izrail Metter ''Пятый угол'' (''The Fifth Corner of the Room'') ** Adolfo Bioy Casares ''Las vísperas de Fausto'' **

Ismail Kadare Ismail Kadare (; 28 January 1936 – 1 July 2024) was an Albanian novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter and playwright. He was a leading international literary figure and intellectual, focusing on poetry until the publication of his first novel ...

'' Kronikë në gur'' * 1993 **

Homero Aridjis Homero Aridjis (born April 6, 1940) is a Mexican poetry, poet, novelist, environmental activist, journalism, journalist, and former ambassador and ex-president of PEN International. Family and early life Aridjis was born in Contepec, Michoacán, ...

''1492. Vida y tiempos de Juan Cabezón de Castilla'' (''The Life and Times of Juan Cabezón of Castile'') ** Jean d'Ormesson ''Histoire du Juif errant'' ** Anita Desai ''Baumgartner's Bombay'' * 1994 ** Cees Nooteboom '' Het volgende verhaal'' **

Ben Okri Sir Ben Golden Emuobowho Okri (born 15 March 1959) is a Nigerian-born British poet and novelist.Ben Okri" ...

'' The Famished Road'' ** A. B. Yehoshua ''מולכו'' (''Five Seasons'') * 1995 **

Robert Schneider Robert Peter Schneider (born March 9, 1971) is an American musician and mathematician. He is the lead singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer of rock/pop band the Apples in Stereo and has produced and performed on albums by Neutral Milk ...

'' Schlafes Bruder'' (''Brother of Sleep'') ** René Depestre ''Le mât de cocagne'' ** Aidan Mathews ''Lipstick on the Host'' * 1996 **

Paulo Coelho Paulo Coelho de Souza ( , ; born 24 August 1947) is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters since 2002. His 1988 novel '' The Alchemist'' became an international best-seller. Early life Paulo Coelho ...

'' O Alquimista'' ** Lars Gustafsson ''Historien med hunden'' (''The Tale of a Dog'') **

Michael Ondaatje Philip Michael Ondaatje (; born 12 September 1943) is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer and essayist. Ondaatje's literary career began with his poetry in 1967, publishing ''The Dainty Monsters'', and then in 1970 the critically a ...

'' Coming Through Slaughter'' * 1997 ** David Grossman ''יש ילדים זיג זג'' (''The Zigzag Kid'') **

Álvaro Mutis Álvaro Mutis Jaramillo (August 25, 1923 – September 22, 2013) was a Colombian poet, novelist, and essayist. His best-known work is the novel sequence '' The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll'', which revolves around the character o ...

''Abdul Bashur, soñador de navíos'' ** Bernhard Schlink '' Der Vorleser'' * 1998 ** Yu Hua '' 活着'' **

'' Piramida'' ** Candia McWilliam '' Debatable Land'' * 1999 ** Andrew Miller '' Ingenious Pain'' ** Jean Rouaud ''Le Monde à peu près'' (''The World, More or Less'') ** D. J. Taylor ''English Settlement'' * 2000 ** Michael Cunningham '' The Hours'' ** Tahar Ben Jelloun ''L'Auberge des pauvres'' ** Ursula Hegi ''Stones from the River'' * 2001 **

Chaim Potok Chaim Potok (February 17, 1929 – July 23, 2002) was an American author, novelist, playwright, editor and rabbi. Of the more than a dozen novels he authored, his first book '' The Chosen'' (1967) was listed on ''The New York Times'' Best ...

'' In the Beginning'' **

Amin Maalouf Amin Maalouf (; ; born 25 February 1949) is a Lebanese people in France, Lebanese-born French"A ...

'' Le Périple de Baldassare'' ** Antonio Skármeta ''La boda del poeta'' (''The Poet's Wedding'') * 2002 **

Orhan Pamuk Ferit Orhan Pamuk (born 7 June 1952; ) is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic, and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, he has sold over 13 million books in 63 languages, making him ...

'' Benim Adım Kırmızı'' ** Alfredo Bryce '' La amigdalitis de Tarzán'' ** Cristoph Hein ''Willenbrock'' * 2003 ** Javier Cercas '' Soldados de Salamina'' **

Miljenko Jergović Miljenko Jergović (born 28 May 1966) is a prominent Bosnian writer. Biography Born in Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia to Croatian parents, Jergović received his M.A. in literature from the Sarajevo University. While at hi ...

''Mama Leone'' ** Ahmadou Kourouma '' Allah n'est pas obligé'' (''Allah Is Not Obliged'') * 2004 ** Natasha Radojčić-Kane ''Homecoming'' ** Péter Esterházy '' Harmonia Cælestis'' (''Celestial Harmonies'') ** Édouard Glissant ''Le quatrième siècle'' (''The Fourth Century'') * 2005 ** Rosa Montero ''La loca de la casa'' ** Thomas Hettche ''Der Fall Arbogast'' ** Dương Thu Hương ''Bên kia bờ ảo vọng'' (''Beyond Illusions'') * 2006 ** Laura Restrepo '' Delirio'' **

Gamal al-Ghitani Gamal al-Ghitani (, ; 9 May 1945 – 18 October 2015) was an Egyptian author of historical and political novels and cultural and political commentaries and was the editor-in-chief of the literary periodical '' Akhbar Al-Adab'' ("Cultural News") ...

''شطف النار: قصص'' ** Miguel Sousa Tavares ''Equador'' * 2007 **

Pascal Mercier Peter Bieri (23 June 1944 – 27 June 2023), better known by his pseudonym, Pascal Mercier, was a Swiss writer and philosopher. Academic background Bieri studied philosophy, English studies and Indian studies in both London and Heidelberg. He ...

'' Nachtzug nach Lissabon'' ** Alaa Al Aswany '' عمارة يعقوبيان'' ** Philippe Forest ''Toute la nuit'' * 2008 **

Bernardo Atxaga Bernardo Atxaga (born 27 July 1951), pseudonym of Joseba Irazu Garmendia, is a Spanish Basque writer and self-translator. He is a full member of the Royal Academy of the Basque Language since 2006, in November 2010, he was also named a member ...

''Bi anai'' (''Two Brothers'') **

Ingo Schulze Ingo Schulze (born 15 December 1962) is a German writer born in Dresden in former East Germany. He studied classical philology at the University of Jena for five years, and, until German reunification, was an assistant director (dramatic arts a ...

''Neue Leben'' (''New Lives'') ** Lyudmila Ulitskaya ''Искренне ваш Шурик'' (''Sincerely Yours, Shurik'')

Lifetime Achievement Award

* 1986

Giorgio Melchiori Giorgio Melchiori CBE FBA (19 August 1920 – 8 February 2009) was an Italian literary critic and translator. His scholarly work was focused on the Early Modern English literature of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras. Early life Melchiori was ...

, English * 1987 Oreste Macrì, Spanish * 1988 Magda Olivetti, German * 1989 Carlo Bo, French * 1990 Eridano Bazzarelli, Russian * 1991 Giovanni Bogliolo, French * 1992 Pietro Marchesani, Polish * 1993 Carlo Carena, Latin * 1994 Giovanni Raboni, French * 1995 Renata Colorni, German * 1996 Glauco Felici, Spanish * 1997 Agostino Lombardo, English * 1998 Luca Canali, Latin * 1999 Maria Luisa Spaziani, French * 2000 Gian Piero Bona, French * 2001 Umberto Gandini, German * 2002 Ettore Capriolo, English * 2003 Fernanda Pivano, English * 2004 Hado Lyria, Spanish * 2005 Serena Vitale, Russian * 2006 Isabella Camera d'Afflitto, Arabic * 2007 Renata Pisu, Chinese * 2008 Giorgio Amitrano, Japanese * 2009 Alessandro Serpieri, English

Best Young Author

* 1990 Andrea Canobbio ''Vasi cinesi'' * 1991 Luca Damiani ''Guardati a vista'', Enzo Muzii ''Punto di non ritorno'' * 1992 Marco Alloni ''La luna nella Senna'' * 1993 Allen Kurzweil ''A Case of Curiosities'' * 1994 Silvana Grasso ''Nebbie di ddraunara'' * 1995 Giuseppe Culicchia ''Tutti giù per terra'' * 1996

Alessandro Barbero Alessandro Barbero (born 30 April 1959) is an Italian historian and writer, especially essayist. Barbero was born in Turin, Italy. He attended the University of Turin, where he studied literature and Medieval history. He won the 1996 Strega ...

''Bella vita e guerre altrui di Mr. Pyle, gentiluomo'' * 1997 Gianni Farinetti ''Un delitto fatto in casa'' * 1998 Lorenzo Pavolini ''Senza Rivoluzione'' * 1999 Rosa Matteucci ''Lourdes'' * 2000 Younis Tawfik ''La straniera'' * 2001 Richard Mason ''The Drowning People'' * 2002 Davide Longo ''Un mattino Irgalem'' * 2003 Elena Loewenthal ''Lo strappo nell’anima'' * 2004

Sayed Kashua Sayed Kashua (, ; born 1975) is an author and journalist. He is a Palestinian people, Palestinian citizen of Israel, born in Tira, Israel. He is known for his books and humorous columns in Hebrew and English. Early life Kashua was born in Tira, ...

''Dancing Arabs'' * 2005 Rupa Bajwa ''The Sari Shop'', Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi ''The Last Song of Dusk'' * 2006 Steven Hayward ''The Secret Mitzvah of Lucio Burke'', Ornela Vorpsi ''Il paese dove non si muore mai'' * 2007 Yasmine Ghata ''The Calligraphers' Night'',

Hélène Grimaud Hélène Rose Paule Grimaud (born 7 November 1969) is a French classical pianist and the founder of the Wolf Conservation Center in South Salem, New York. Early life and education Grimaud was born in Aix-en-Provence, France, the daughter of te ...

''Wild Harmonies'' * 2008 Léonora Miano ''Dark heart of the night''

International Award

* 1991 Julien Green * 1992

Günter Grass Günter Wilhelm Grass (; 16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gda ...

* 1993 Czeslaw Milosz * 1994

Carlos Fuentes Carlos Fuentes Macías (; ; November 11, 1928 – May 15, 2012) was a Mexican novelist and essayist. Among his works are ''The Death of Artemio Cruz'' (1962), '' Aura'' (1962), '' Terra Nostra'' (1975), '' The Old Gringo'' (1985) and '' Christop ...

* 1995

Bohumil Hrabal Bohumil Hrabal (; 28 March 1914 – 3 February 1997) was a Czech Republic, Czech writer, often named among the best Czech writers of the 20th century. Early life Hrabal was born in Židenice (suburb of Brno) on 28 March 1914, in what was then ...

* 1996

Kenzaburō Ōe was a Japanese writer and a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature. His novels, short stories and essays, strongly influenced by French and American literature and literary theory, deal with political, social and philosophical issue ...

* 1997

Yves Bonnefoy Yves Jean Bonnefoy (24 June 1923, Tours – 1 July 2016, Paris) was a French poet and art historian. He also published a number of translations, most notably the plays of William Shakespeare which are considered among the best in French. He was a ...

* 1998 Jean Starobinski * 1999 Vidiadhar S. Naipaul * 2000 Manuel Vazquez Montalban * 2001

Toni Morrison Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019), known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist and editor. Her first novel, ''The Bluest Eye'', was published in 1970. The critically accl ...

* 2002 Daniel Pennac * 2003

J. M. Coetzee John Maxwell Coetzee Order of Australia, AC Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, FRSL Order of Mapungubwe, OMG (born 9 February 1940) is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, and translator. The recipient of the 2003 ...

* 2004

* 2005 Anita Desai * 2006 Derek Walcott * 2007 Amitav Ghosh * 2008

Don DeLillo Donald Richard DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter, and essayist. His works have covered subjects as diverse as consumerism, nuclear war, the complexities of language, art, televi ...

Best Non-fiction

* 1996 Pietro Citati ''La colomba pugnalata'' * 1997 Daria Galateria ''Le fughe del Re Sole'' * 1998 Giuliano Baioni ''Il giovane Goethe'' * 2000 Cesare Segre * 2002 Paolo Cesaretti ''Teodora'', Gian Carlo Roscioni ''Il desiderio delle Indie'' * 2007

Alberto Manguel Alberto Manguel (born March 13, 1948, in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine Canadian, Argentine-Canadian anthologist, translator, essayist, novelist, editor, and a former director of the National Library of Argentina. He is a cosmopolitan and polyglo ...

''Diario di un lettore''

Grinzane Publishing Award

* 2001

Hans Magnus Enzensberger Hans Magnus Enzensberger (11 November 1929 – 24 November 2022) was a German author, poet, translator, and editor. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Andreas Thalmayr, Elisabeth Ambras, Linda Quilt and Giorgio Pellizzi. Enzensberger was regarde ...

* 2002

André Schiffrin André Schiffrin (June 14, 1935 – December 1, 2013) was a French-American author, publisher and socialist. Life Schiffrin was born in Paris, the son of Jacques Schiffrin, a Russian Jew who emigrated to France and briefly enjoyed success the ...

* 2003 Antoine Gallimard * 2004

Odile Jacob Odile Jacob is a French publisher who founded ''Les Éditions Odile Jacob'' in the middle of the 1980s. She is also a trained scientist, studying the workings of the brain, the mind and thought. She is a member of Le Siècle.Frédéric Saliba, 'L ...

* 2005 Jorge Herralde * 2006 Ulla Unseld-Berkéwicz * 2007 Ellen W. Faran

Reading Prize, Fondazione CRT

* 2006

Assia Djebar Fatima-Zohra Imalayen (; 30 June 1936 – 6 February 2015), known by her pen name Assia Djebar (), was an Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker. Most of her works deal with obstacles faced by women, and she is noted for her feminist stance ...

* 2007

* 2008

Adunis Ali Ahmad Said Esber (, Levantine Arabic, North Levantine ; born 1 January 1930), also known by the pen name Adonis or Adunis ( ), is a Syrian people, Syrian poet, essayist and translator. Maya Jaggi, writing for The Guardian stated "He led a mod ...

Special Prize

* 1985 Giorgio Dell'Arti ''Vita di Cavour'' * 1986

Nuto Revelli Benvenuto "Nuto" Revelli (21 July 1919, Cuneo, Piedmont – 5 February 2004) was an Italian author, historian and Italian partisans, partisan. A Second World War veteran who survived Italy's disastrous foray into Russian territory and its subsequ ...

''L’anello forte'' * 1987 Paolo Paulucci ''Alla corte di Re Umberto'', Giorgio Calcagno * 1988 Georges Virlogeux * 1989 Marcello Staglieno ''Un santo borghese'' * 1990 Virginia Galante Garrone ''Nel transito del vento'' * 1995

Wole Soyinka Wole Soyinka , (born 13 July 1934) is a Nigerian author, best known as a playwright and poet. He has written three novels, ten collections of short stories, seven poetry collections, twenty five plays and five memoirs. He also wrote two transla ...

* 2001

* 2006 Rigoberta Menchú * 2008 Aharon Appelfeld '' Badenheim 1939''

Intercontinental Dialogue Award

* 2006 Hanif Kureishi,

Richard Ford Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944) is an American novelist and short story author, and writer of a series of novels featuring the character Frank Bascombe. Ford's first collection of short stories, ''Rock Springs (short stories), Rock Springs ...

References

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