The Premio Hemingway (
Hemingway Prize) is an international art award established by the municipality of
Lignano Sabbiadoro
Lignano Sabbiadoro (; ) is a town and (municipality) in the Province of Udine, Regional decentralization entity of Udine, in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of north-eastern Italy. It is one of the main summer resorts in northern Italy and ...
,
Italy
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in 1984.
Lignano, situated on a small peninsula between
Venice
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and
Trieste
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is a place where
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway ( ; July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized fo ...
spent much time.
Each year a jury awards a series of awards for excellence in literature and related fields. The awards are announced at a glittering ceremony in June.
The Prize is promoted by the Municipality of Lignano Sabbiadoro with the support of the Departments of Culture and Productive Activities and Tourism of the
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Friuli-Venezia Giulia () is one of the 20 regions of Italy and one of five autonomous regions with special statute. The regional capital is Trieste on the Gulf of Trieste, a bay of the Adriatic Sea.
Friuli-Venezia Giulia has an area of and a ...
Region and the ''Pordenonelegge Foundation'' which was founded in 2013 by the Chamber of Commerce of
Pordenone
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The name comes from Lati ...
and local trade associations.
Award winners
''2019''
* Literature –
Emmanuel Carrère
* Adventures of thought –
Eva Cantarella
* Witness of our time –
Federico Rampini
* Photography –
Riccardo Zipoli
* Special Prize Citta di Lignano –
Franca Leosini
''2018''
* Literature –
Annie Ernaux
* Adventure of thought –
Antonio Damasio
Antonio Damasio (; born 25 February 1944) is a Portuguese neuroscientist. He is currently the David Dornsife Chair in Neuroscience, as well as Professor of Psychology, Philosophy, and Neurology, at the University of Southern California, and, add ...
* Witness of our time –
Lilli Gruber
* Photography –
Francesca Della Toffola
''2017''
* Literature –
Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith (born Sadie; 25 October 1975) is an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novel, ''White Teeth'' (2000), immediately became a best-seller and won a number of awards. She became a tenured professor in the ...
* Adventure of thought –
Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek ( ; ; born 21 March 1949) is a Slovenian Marxist philosopher, cultural theorist and public intellectual.
He is the international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, Global Distin ...
* Witness of our time –
Massimo Recalcati
* Photography –
Nino Migliori
''2016''
* Literature –
Luis Sepúlveda
* Adventure of thought –
Massimo Cacciari
* Life and work –
Aharon Appelfeld
* Photography –
George Tatge
''2015''
* Literature –
Corrado Augias
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Biography
Augias was born and raised in Rome in a fam ...
* Adventure of thought –
Richard Sennet
* Photo book:
Luca Campigotto
* Reportage –
William Dalrymple
''2014''
* Literature –
Abraham Yehoshua
* Adventure of thought –
Zygmunt Bauman
Zygmunt Bauman (; ; 19 November 1925 – 9 January 2017) was a Polish–British sociologist and philosopher. He was driven out of the Polish People's Republic during the 1968 Polish political crisis and forced to give up his Polish citizenship. ...
* Photo reportage –
Alice Albinia
* Photo book:
Guido Guidi
''2013''
* Literature –
Giuseppe Furno
* Journalism –
Shoma Chaudhury
* Photo reportage –
Yuri Kozyrev
* Free spirit –
Enrico Calamai
* Special prize –
Enea Fabris-Stralignano
References
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Italian literary awards
1984 establishments in Italy
Awards established in 1984
Fiction awards
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