Cilento Poetry Prize (Italian: ''Premio Cilento Poesia''), is an Italian literary prize founded in 2017 by the poet, writer and literary critic

Menotti Lerro Menotti Augusto Serse Lerro (22 February 1980) is an Italian poet, writer, playwright, librettist and academic, born in Omignano, Salerno. His work explores matters of social alienation and existentialism, the physicality and vulnerability of the ...

and awarded annually, in the month of August, in

Salento Salento ( Salentino: ''Salentu'', Salentino Griko: ''Σαλέντο'') is a cultural, historical and geographic region at the southern end of the administrative region of Apulia in Southern Italy. It is a sub-peninsula of the Italian Peninsula ...

Cilento Cilento is an Italian geographical region of Campania in the central and southern part of the Province of Salerno and an important Tourism, tourist area of southern Italy. Cilento is known as one of the centers of Mediterranean diet. Geograph ...

- "The Poetry Village".

Criteria for nomination

The prize is awarded to "a poet who, during the preceding year, has published a collection of poems already considered relevant to be part of the history of literature, or the same prize is conferred to a distinguished poet for the importance of his/her career”.

Prizes (some cases equal-first) have been awarded as follows

*2017 - Davide Rondoni *2018 -

Milo de Angelis Milo De Angelis (born 1951) is an Italian language poet. He is the author of several books of poetry, as well as a volume of stories and one of essays. He has also published translations of several modern French authors and Greek classics. He w ...

*2019 - Franco Loi and

Roberto Carifi Roberto Carifi (born 1948 in Pistoia), is an Italian poet, philosopher, and translator, supported since the beginning from Piero Bigongiari, one of the major exponents of Florentine Hermeticism. Considered one of the most important poet and intellec ...

(special winter edition at

Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera The Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera ("academy of fine arts of Brera"), also known as the or Brera Academy, is a state-run tertiary public academy of fine arts in Milan, Italy. It shares its history, and its main building, with the Pinacoteca di ...

) *2019 - Giampiero Neri and Vivian Lamarque *2020 - Elio Pecora *2021 -

Dacia Maraini Dacia Maraini (; born November 13, 1936) is an Italian writer. Maraini's work focuses on women's issues, and she has written numerous plays and novels. She has won awards for her work, including the Formentor Prize for ''L'età del malessere'' ...

*2022 -

Valerio Magrelli Valerio Magrelli (born 1957, Rome) is an Italian poet. He graduated in philosophy at the University of Rome and is an expert in French literature which he has taught and teaches at University of Pisa and University of Cassino. He debuted as an a ...

and Tiziano Rossi

Cilento Prizes for criticism have been awarded as follows

*2018 - Francesco D'Episcopo *2019 - Umberto Curi *2020 -

Remo Bodei Remo Bodei (3 August 1938 – 7 November 2019) was an Italian philosopher. He was a professor of the history of philosophy at the UCLA University, Los Angeles California, and also had taught at the University of Pisa and Scuola Normale Superiore ...

(posthumous)

Institutional sponsorship

The Cilento Poetry Prize is officially supported by: Regione

Campania Campania (, also , , , ) is an administrative Regions of Italy, region of Italy; most of it is in the south-western portion of the Italian peninsula (with the Tyrrhenian Sea to its west), but it also includes the small Phlegraean Islands and the i ...

, Provincia di

Salerno Salerno (, , ; nap, label= Salernitano, Saliernë, ) is an ancient city and ''comune'' in Campania (southwestern Italy) and is the capital of the namesake province, being the second largest city in the region by number of inhabitants, after ...

Soprintendenza The Ministry of Culture ( it, Ministero della Cultura - MiC) is the ministry of the Government of Italy in charge of national museums and the ''monuments historiques''. MiC's headquarters are located in the historic Collegio Romano Palace (via ...

Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio

Avellino Avellino () is a town and ''comune'', capital of the province of Avellino in the Campania region of southern Italy. It is situated in a plain surrounded by mountains east of Naples and is an important hub on the road from Salerno to Benevento. ...

Parco Nazionale del Cilento, Vallo di Diano e Alburni Cilento, Vallo di Diano and Alburni National Park (Italian ''Parco Nazionale del Cilento, Vallo di Diano e Alburni'') is an Italian national park in the Province of Salerno, in Campania in southern Italy. It includes much of the Cilento, the Vall ...

. *In 2022 the Prize has been financed by the Italian Ministry of Culture for 140.000 Euro to let it become International.

Bibliography

*Norma De Martino, ''Premio Cilento Poesia. 1a Edizione. Cronistoria della serata del 10 agosto 2017'', p. 301, in "Annali Storici di Principato Citra", A. 15, n. 2.2 (Centro di Promozione Culturale per il Cilento: 2017) *In

(edited by) ''La Scuola Empatica: Movimento letterario-artistico-filosofico e culturale sorto in Italia nel 2020'' (Ladolfi: 2020), pp. 65–104. *Nicola Nicoletti, "Salento capitale della poesia . A San Lorenzo versi d'autore", 5 agosto 2022, "La Città di Salerno", p. 16. *Davide Speranza, "Cilento Poesia, antologia sotto il firmamento",

Il Mattino ''Il Mattino'' (meaning ''The Morning'' in English) is an Italian daily newspaper published in Naples, Italy. History and profile ''Il Mattino'' was first published on 16 March 1892 by the journalists Edoardo Scarfoglio and Matilde Serao. The pa ...

, p. 28 (09 August 2022). *"Torna Cilento Poesia di Menotti Lerro: Magrelli-Rossi vincono la VII edizione", Affari Italiani (09 August 2022) online edition.

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