The Premi Flaiano (English: Flaiano Prizes) are a set of Italian international awards recognizing achievements in the fields of creative writing, cinema, theatre and radio-television. Established to honour the Italian author and screenwriter Ennio Flaiano (1910–1972), the prizes have been awarded annually since 1974 at the Teatro Monumentale Gabriele D'Annunzio in Pescara, Flaiano's hometown in Abruzzo, as well as D'Annunzio's. Since 2001 the cinema section has become a true film festival, consisting of several events and film selections presented in cinemas around the town and open to the general public. The Flaiano Film Festival is one of Italy's International Film Festivals. The Festival lasts one month (between June and July of each year), with the presentation of films in competition and out of competition, allowing the participation of thousands of spectators. The festival is enriched by several smaller festivals each year and is divided into several sections for which prizes are awarded. These include best film, best foreign film, male and female actors, director, photographer, editing, soundtrack, set design and costumes. A special jury prize is awarded, the best film of onset and also the premium carriera. The highest award given is the Flaiano gold for the film which is reserved for writers for film, directors, performers Italian and foreign critics.

Award winners

Literary prize

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*1976: Emma Giammattei, Renato Minore *1977: Goffredo Parise *1978: Guido Ceronetti *1979:

Mario Praz Mario Praz (; September 6, 1896, Rome – March 23, 1982, Rome) was an Italian-born critic of art and literature, and a scholar of English literature. His best-known book, ''The Romantic Agony'' (1933), was a comprehensive survey of the decadent ...

*1980: Mario Soldati *1981: Roberto Ridolfi *1982: Carlo Betocchi, Pietro Citati *1983: Mimì Zorzi, Gino Bacchetti *1984: Antonio Altomonte, Gesualdo Bufalino *1985: Francesco Burdin,

Raffaele La Capria Raffaele La Capria (3 October 1922 – 26 June 2022) was an Italian novelist and screenwriter. His second novel, '' The Mortal Wound'' (''Ferito a morte''), won Italy's most prestigious award, the Strega Prize, and is today considered a classi ...

*1986:

Piero Chiara Piero Chiara (March 23, 1913 – December 31, 1986) was an Italian writer. He was born in Luino, on Lake Maggiore (northern Italy). His father Eugenio was from Resuttano, Sicily; his mother Virginia Maffei was from Comnago, a Piedmontese village ...

, Paolo Barbaro, Mario Rigoni Stern *1987: Gian Luigi Piccioli, Franca Rossi, Gaetano Afeltra *1988: Lorenzo Mondo, Giorgio Soavi *1989: Maria Corti, Fruttero & Lucentini *1990: Luigi Malerba, Claudio Magris *1991: John Banville, Francesca Sanvitale, Antonio Tabucchi, Antonio Cibotto *1992: Peter Handke, Giuliana Morandini, José Saramago *1993: Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, Domenico Rea, Luis Sepúlveda *1994:

Manuel Vázquez Montalbán Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (14 June 1939–18 October 2003) was a prolific Spanish writer from Catalonia: journalist, novelist, poet, essayist, anthologue, prologist, humorist, critic and political prisoner as well as a gastronome and a FC ...

, Marie NDiaye, Giuseppe Pontiggia *1995: Daniele Del Giudice, Allan Folsom, Jostein Gaarder *1996: Enzo Bettiza, Paulo Coelho, Tahar Ben Jelloun,

Daniel Pennac Daniel Pennac (real name Daniel Pennacchioni, born 1 December 1944 in Casablanca, Morocco) is a French writer. He received the Prix Renaudot in 2007 for his essay '' Chagrin d'école''. Daniel Pennacchioni is the fourth and last son of a Cors ...

Abraham B. Yehoshua Avraham Gabriel Yehoshua ( he, אברהם גבריאל (בולי) יהושע; 9 December 1936 – 14 June 2022) was an Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright. ''The New York Times'' called him the "Israeli Faulkner". Underlying themes in Ye ...

, Ken Saro-Wiwa (in his memory) *1997: Tom Clancy, Dacia Maraini, Patrick Robinson *1998: Andrea Camilleri, Daniel Chavarría, Ian McEwan *1999: Vincenzo Consolo, Edwidge Danticat, Max Gallo *2000: Alex Garland, Javier Marías, Daniel Picouly, Fabrizia Ramondino *2001:

Michèle Desbordes Michèle Desbordes (4 August 1940, Saint-Cyr-en-Val (Loiret) – 24 January 2006, Baule (Loiret), aged 65) was a French writer. A curator of university libraries, she received several awards for her story ''La Demande'' devoted to Leonardo da Vin ...

, Patrick McGrath, Roberto Pazzi *2002: Peter Carey,

Silvana Grasso Silvana Grasso (Macchia di Giarre, 3 June 1952) is an Italian people, Italian writer. Biography Grasso was born in Macchia di Giarre, where she currently lives and works as a philologist, writer, and critic for , La Sicilia, and la Repubblica (Pal ...

, Per Olov Enquist *2003:

John Crowley John Crowley may refer to: *John Crowley (Irish revolutionary) (1891-1942), Irish revolutionary and hunger striker *John Crowley (author) (born 1942), American author *John Crowley (baseball) (1862–1896), American Major League catcher *John Crowl ...

, Antonio Munoz Molina, Harry Mulish, Elisabetta Rasy, Nikolaj Spasskij *2004: Aziz Chouaki, Paolo Di Stefano,

David Grossman David Grossman ( he, דויד גרוסמן; born January 25, 1954) is an Israeli author. His books have been translated into more than 30 languages. In 2018, he was awarded the Israel Prize for literature. Biography David Grossman was born i ...

*2005: Alberto Bevilacqua, Gianni Celati, Dacia Maraini, Raffaele Nigro, Domenico Starnone *2006:

Amara Lakhous Amara Lakhous (born Algiers, 1970) is an Italian author, journalist and anthropologist of Algerian origin. He currently lives in New York City. Early life Lakhous was born in 1970 in Algiers, Algeria, in a Berber family with nine siblings. He gradu ...

, Enrique Vila-Matas *2007: Hisham Matar *2008: Alberto Arbasino,

Ismail Kadaré Ismail Kadare (; spelled Ismaïl Kadaré in French; born on 28 January 1936) is an Albanian novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter, and playwright. He is a leading international literary figure and intellectual. He focused on poetry until the pu ...

, Alice Munro *2009: Eraldo Affinati *2010:

Silvia Avallone Silvia Avallone (born 11 April 1984) is an Italian novelist and poet. Early life Born in 1984 in Biella, she spent her adolescence in Piombino. She was an only child of divorced parents; her father owned a small business and her mother was a sc ...

(opera prima) *2011: Margaret Mazzantini, Aurelio Picca, Sandro Veronesi *2012: Maria Paola Colombo (opera prima) *2013:

Marco Balzano Marco Balzano (born 1978) is an Italian writer. He was born in Milan, where he now works as a teacher of literature in a high school. Balzano has written several acclaimed novels: * Il figlio del figlio, which won the Premio Corrado Alvaro for ...

*2014: Sebastiano Vassalli *2015: Giorgio Patrizi *2016: Jonathan Coe *2018: Andrea Moro *2019:

Valeria Parrella Valeria Parrella (born 1974)
is an

John Banville *1992: José Saramago *1993: Luis Sepúlveda *1994: Giuseppe Pontiggia *1995: Daniele Del Giudice *1996:

*1997: Carlo Sgorlon *1998: Andrea Camilleri *1999:

Edwidge Danticat Edwidge Danticat (; born January 19, 1969) is a Haitian-American novelist and short story writer. Her first novel, '' Breath, Eyes, Memory'', was published in 1994 and went on to become an Oprah's Book Club selection. Danticat has since written ...

*2000: Javier Marías, Fabrizia Ramondino *2001: Roberto Pazzi *2002: Per Olov Enquist *2003:

*2004: Paolo Di Stefano *2005: Raffaele Nigro *2006:

*2008: Alice Munro *2009: Eraldo Affinati *2011: Sandro Veronesi

Poetry Prize

*1986:

Maria Luisa Spaziani Maria Luisa Spaziani (21 June 1923 – 30 June 2014) was an Italian poet. Biography Spaziani was born in Turin. At nineteen, she founded the review ''Il dado'', working with collaborators such as Vasco Pratolini, Sandro Penna and Vinc ...

*1987: Luciano Luisi *1988: Elio Filippo Accrocca *1989: Pietro Cimatti, Vivian Lamarque, Benito Sablone *1990: Edoardo Albinati, Dario Bellezza, Vico Faggi *1991: Renzo Barsacchi, Isabella Scalfaro, Massimo Scrignòli *1992: Marco Guzzi, Luciano Roncalli, Mario Trufelli *1993: Attilio Bertolucci, Cesare Vivaldi, *1994: Piero Bigongiari *1995: Seamus Heaney *1996: Yves Bonnefoy *1997:

Miroslav Holub Miroslav Holub (; 13 September 1923 – 14 July 1998) was a Czech poet and immunologist. Holub's work was heavily influenced by his experiences as an Immunologist, writing many poems using his scientific knowledge to poetic effect. His work ...

*1998: Lawrence Ferlinghetti *1999: Yang Lian *2000:

Derek Walcott Sir Derek Alton Walcott (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works include the Homeric epic poem ''Omeros'' (1990), which many critics view "as Walcot ...

*2001: Charles Tomlinson *2002: Adunis

Italian Studies Prize

*2002: **Daniela Amsallem, **Peter Kuon, **Eanna O’Ceallachain, **Joanna Ugniewska *2003: **Ginette Herry, **Mladen Machiedo, **Millicent Marcus, **Irmgard Scharold *2004: **Smaranda Bratu Elian, **Marcel Schneider, **Tibor Szabo, **Minoru Tanokura *2005: **Federica Brunori Deigan, **Gerard Marino, **Rita Marnoto *2006: **Larissa G. Stepanova, **Ariel Rathaus, **Lucia Re e Paul Vangelisti *2007: **

Teodolinda Barolini Teodolinda Barolini is the Lorenzo Da Ponte Professor of Italian at Columbia University, and has twice served as Chair of the Department of Italian (1992–2004, 2011–2014). Early life Barolini was born December 19, 1951 in Syracuse, New Yor ...

, **Adel El Siwi, **

Dagmar Reichardt Dagmar Reichardt (born September 25, 1961 in Rome, Italy) is a leading German scholar in the area of transcultural studies. Life Dagmar Reichardt descends from a German Huguenot family with roots extending far back in time, the first docume ...

*2008: **Michail Andreev, **Laura Benedetti, **Angela Barwig, **Thomas Stauder *2009: **Stefano Fogelberg Rota, **Margherita Heyer-Caput, **Thian Shigang *2010: **Yasuko Matsumoto, **Jozsef Pal, **Stanislao Pugliese *2011: **Marisa Trubiano, **Laura Lahdensuu, **Jiří Špička *2012: **Edward Goldberg, **Philip Cooke, **

Alfred Noe Alfred Noe (born January 13, 1953, in Stripfing, Lower Austria) is an Austrian professor of Romance studies at the University of Vienna. Biography Noe studied Romance philology, philosophy and art history at the University of Vienna from 19 ...

*2013: **Konrad Eisenbichler, **Joseph Farrell, **Augustine Thompson *2014: **Geo Vasile, **Sania Roič, **Barbara Kornacka *2015: **Ole Meyer *2016: **Fernanda Elisa Bravo Herrera, **Armando Maggi, **Miriam Oravcov

Special Prize

*1999: **''Vittorio Emiliani'' *2001: **'' Imre Kertész'' *2005: **'' Wole Soyinka'' *2006: **'' Antonio Skármeta'' *2010 Special prizes **The centenary of the birth of ''Ennio Flaiano'', **''Roberto Saviano'' the high moral value and ethical commitment of his work, **Poet and film writer ''Tonino Guerra'', *2012: ''Hussein Mahmoud'' (Special Italian Studies Award) *2013: Special prizes for the 40th **''Adonis'' for poetry, **''Jaroslaw Mikolaiewski'' for Italian Culture in the World, **''Salvatore Settis'' *2022: Best Male Performance in the Youth Section **'' Phaim Bhuyian'' for ''

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References

External links

Italian Cultural Institute in Washington
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