The Premio Brancati Zafferana, more concisely known as the Premio Brancati, is a
literary prize
A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded Literature, literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author.
Organizations
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named in memory of the Italian writer
Vitaliano Brancati
Vitaliano Brancati (; 24 July 1907 – 25 September 1954) was an Italian novelist, dramatist, poet and screenwriter.
Biography
Born in Pachino, Syracuse, Brancati studied in Catania, where he graduated in letters and where he spent the most pa ...
.
Background
The Premio Brancati was launched in 1967.
Originally a single award, the prize has been given since 1996 in the categories of narrative fiction, non-fiction, poetry,
and, since 2015, emerging young writer. The winners in each category are announced over the course of several days at a convention held in September every year in
Zafferana Etnea
Zafferana Etnea (; scn, Zafarana ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Catania in the Italian region Sicily, located about southeast of Palermo and about north of Catania.
The municipality of Zafferana Etnea contains the ...
in
Sicily
(man) it, Siciliana (woman)
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, Italy, where Brancati customarily spent part of each year
and where one of his novels,
''Paolo il caldo'', was set.
References
Italian literary awards
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