The Grinzane Cavour Prize (1989–2009) 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.
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. 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
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Gennaro Manna
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''La casa di Napoli''
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Primo Levi
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Virgilio Scapin Virgilio, the Italian and Spanish form of Virgil may refer to:
*Virgilio, Lombardy, a ''frazione'' of the ''comune'' of Borgo Virgilio in the Italian province of Mantua
*Virgilio.it, a website
People with the given name
*Virgilio Barco Vargas (192 ...
''La giostra degli arcangeli''
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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 of ...
''Donna di Porto Pim''
* 1985
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Sebastiano Vassalli
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Vassalli was born in Genoa, Italy in 1941. His mother are from Tuscany and father were from Lombardy. At a ver ...
Giorgio Prodi
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He studied medicine and chemistry at the University of Bologna. From 1958, he taught general patho ...
Franco Ferrucci
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''Il mondo creato''
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Ermanno Olmi
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Biography
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''Ragazzo della Bovisa''
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Nico Orengo
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''Dogana d'amore''
* 1988
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Vincenzo Consolo
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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 ...
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Retablo
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Manlio Cancogni Manlio is a given name. Notable people with the given name include:
*Manlio Argueta (born 1935), Salvadoran writer, critic and novelist
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*Manlio De Angelis (1935–2017), Italian ...
''Il genio e niente''
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Lalla Romano
Graziella "Lalla" Romano (11 November 1906 in Demonte – 26 June 2001 in Milan) was an Italian novelist, poet, artist and journalist.
Life and work
Romano was born as Graziella Romano in Demonte in 1906 from a noteworthy Piedmontese famil ...
''Nei mari estremi''
* 1989
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Luigi Malerba
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Raffaele La Capria
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His second novel, '' The Mortal Wound'' (''Ferito a morte''), won Italy's most prestigious award, the Strega Prize, and is today considered a classi ...
''La neve del Vesuvio''
* 1990
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Roberto Pazzi
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Pazzi graduated in classics in Bologna with a thesis on Luciano Anceschi and aesthetics on the poetry of Umb ...
''Vangelo di Giuda''
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Cecilia Kin
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The name has been popularly used in Europe (particularly the United Kingdom and Italy, where in 2018 it was the 43rd most popular name for girls born ...
''Autoritratto in rosso''
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Alberto Vigevani
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Gianni Riotta
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''Cambio di stagione''
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Paola Capriolo
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The daughter of a theatre critic and translator from Liguria and an artist from Turin, she was born in Milan and was educated at the University of Milan, receiving a d ...
''Il doppio regno''
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Vincenzo Cerami
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Biography
From 1967, he contributed or wrote screenplays or adapted screenplays for more than 40 films. In 1996, he was a member of the jury ...
Cordelia Edvardson
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''La principessa delle ombre''
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Salvatore Mannuzzu
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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''
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Guido Ceronetti
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In 1970, he founded the Theater of the Sensitive. His works are archived at the Ca ...
''D.D. Deliri Disarmati''
** Laura Pariani ''Di corno o d'oro''
* 1995
** Luca Doninelli ''Le decorose memorie''
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Alberto Arbasino
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Among the protagonists of Group 63, his literary production has ranged from novels (Fratelli d'Italia of 1963, rewritten in 1976 and 199 ...
Mario Rigoni Stern
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** Rosetta Loy ''Cioccolata da Hanselmann''
* 1997
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Marco Lodoli
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People
* Marco (given name), people with the given name Marco
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* Tomás Marco (born 1942), Spanish co ...
Daniele Del Giudice
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Biography
Born in Rome in 1949, Del Giudice researched av ...
Sergio Givone
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''Favola delle cose ultime''
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Fabrizia Ramondino
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Diego Marani
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Biography
Born in Tresigallo, Marani attended the Liceo Ginnasio Ariosto in Ferrara till 1978 and graduated in interpretation and translation from the ''Scuola superior ...
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Manlio Cancogni Manlio is a given name. Notable people with the given name include:
*Manlio Argueta (born 1935), Salvadoran writer, critic and novelist
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''Il mister''
* 2002
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Margaret Mazzantini
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Alberto Asor Rosa
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''L'alba di un mondo nuovo''
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Clara Sereni
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She became known to critics and the public with her first book, ...
Andrea Vitali
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Biography
Vitali was born in Bellano, on the eastern shore of Lake Como. After graduating from medical college, he worked as an MD until 2014.
He debuted as a writer in 1990, with the ...
Alessandro Perissinotto
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Biography
After a number of jobs which helped funded his studies he graduated in 1992 in Italian Literature with a dissertation on semiotics ...
Tullio Avoledo
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Biography
Avoledo was born in Valvasone, in Friuli. After earning a degree in law, he worked as legal counselor for banks.
His first novel, ''L'elenco telefonico di A ...
''Tre sono le cose misteriose''
** Silvia Di Natale ''L’ombra del cerro''
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Silvana Grasso
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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 ...
''Disio''
* 2007
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Marcello Fois
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Michael Crichton
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Tadeusz Konwicki
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Life
Konwicki was born in 1926 as the only son of Jadwiga Kieżun and Michał Konwicki in Nowa Wilejka, ...
''A Minor Apocalypse''
** Vladimir Maksimov ''The Ballad of Sawa''
* 1983
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Yuri Rytkheu
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''A Dream in a Polar Fog''
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Jorge Amado
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Thomas Bernhard
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Nathalie Sarraute
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Personal life
Sarraute was born in Ivanovo-Voznesensk (now Ivanovo), 300&n ...
''Enfance''
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Yordan Radichkov
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Literary critics Adelina Angusheva and Galin Tihanov called him "arguably the most significant voice of Bulgarian ...
''Tales of Cerkazki''
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Amos Tutuola
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Early history
Amos Olatubosun Tutuola Odegbami was born on 20 June 1920, in Wasinmi, a village just a few miles outside o ...
Nadine Gordimer
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July's People
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Kurt Vonnegut
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Deadeye Dick
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Plot summary
The novel's main character, Rudy Waltz, or "Deadeye Dick", commits accidental manslaughter as a child when he shoots a gun out of a window and fatally strike ...
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* 1986
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Bernard-Henri Lévy
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''Le diable en tête''
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Wole Soyinka
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Daniel O. Fagunwa
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Early life
Daniel Oròwọlé Fágúnwà was born in ...
Mario Vargas Llosa
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''The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta''
* 1987
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Graham Swift
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Waterland
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José Saramago
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The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
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* 1988
** Wilma Stockenström ''The Expedition to the Baobab Tree''
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Julian Barnes
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Flaubert's Parrot
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Eduardo Mendoza Garriga
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Early life
He studied law in the first half of the 1960s and lived in New York City between 1973 and 1982, working as interpreter for the United Nati ...
''La ciudad de los prodigios''
* 1989
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Doris Lessing
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The Fifth Child
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Leonid Borodin
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Biography
Born in Irkutsk, Borodin was a Rus ...
''Partings''
** Marvel Moreno ''En diciembre llegaban las brisas''
* 1990
** Alfredo Conde ''Xa Vai O Griffon No Vento''
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Thorsten Becker
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''The Hostage''
** Tatjana Tolstaja ''On the Golden Porch, and other stories''
* 1991
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Michel Tournier
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''Le Medianoche amoureux''
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Ian McEwan
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Black Dogs
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Edna O'Brien
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Girl with Green Eyes
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Desmond St ...
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* 1992
** Izrail Metter ''The Fifth Corner of the Room''
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Adolfo Bioy Casares
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Chronicle in Stone
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* 1993
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Homero Aridjis
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Family and early life
Aridjis was born in Contepe ...
''The Life and Times of Juan Cabezón of Castile''
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Jean d'Ormesson
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''Histoire du juif errant''
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Anita Desai
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''Baumgartner's Bombay''
* 1994
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Cees Nooteboom
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''The Following Story''
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Ben Okri
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The Famished Road
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Robert Schneider
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René Depestre
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''Le Mât de cocagne''
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Aidan Mathews
Aidan Mathews, sometimes Aidan Carl Mathews, (born 1956) is an Irish poet and dramatist born in Dublin.
Life
He was educated at Gonzaga College, Dublin and University College Dublin and holds an MA from Trinity College Dublin. He works as a drama ...
''Lipstick on the Host''
* 1996
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Paulo Coelho
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The Alchemist
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Alchemist or Alchemyst may also refer to:
Books and stories
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Lars Gustafsson
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''The Tale of a Dog''
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Michael Ondaatje
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Coming Through Slaughter
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The novel is a fictionalized version of the life of the New Orleans jazz pioneer ...
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* 1997
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David Grossman
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Biography
David Grossman was born i ...
''The Zigzag Kid''
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Álvaro Mutis
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''Abdul Bashur, soñador de navíos''
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Bernhard Schlink
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Earl ...
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The Reader
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* 1998
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Yu Hua
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Ismail Kadare
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The Pyramid
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Candia McWilliam
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Literary career
Born in Edinburgh, McWilliam was educated at St George's School for Girls in the c ...
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Debatable Land
''Debatable Land'' is a Guardian First Book Award, Guardian Fiction Prize-winning novel in Scotland, novel by Scottish author Candia McWilliam. The novel seeks to raise questions about the direction in which United Kingdom, Britain (and more s ...
Ingenious Pain
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Jean Rouaud
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The Prix Goncourt (french: Le prix Goncourt, , ...
''The World, More or Less''
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D. J. Taylor
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''English Settlement''
* 2000
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Michael Cunningham
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Tahar Ben Jelloun
Tahar Ben Jelloun ( ar, الطاهر بن جلون; born in Fes, Morocco, 1 December 1944) is a Moroccan writer. All of his work is written in French although his first language is Darija. He became known for his 1985 novel ''L’Enfant de Sab ...
''L'Auberge des pauvres''
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Ursula Hegi
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She was born Ursula Koch in 1946 in Düsseldorf, Germany, a city that was heavily bombed during World ...
''Stones from the River''
* 2001
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Chaim Potok
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Biography
H ...
''In the Beginning''
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Amin Maalouf
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Orhan Pamuk
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My Name Is Red
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Alfredo Bryce
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Early days
Bryce was born to a Peruvian family of upper class, related to the Scottish-Peruvian businessman John ...
Javier Cercas
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He was born in Ibahernando, Cáceres, Spain. He is a frequent contributor to the Catalan edition of '' ...
Miljenko Jergović
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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 high ...
''Mama Leone''
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Ahmadou Kourouma
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Life
The eldest son of a distinguished Malinké family, Ahmadou Kourouma was born in 1927 in Boundiali, Côte d'Ivoire. Raised by his uncle, he initially pursue ...
Péter Esterházy
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''Celestial Harmonies: A Novel''
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Édouard Glissant
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''Le Quatrième Siècle''
* 2005
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Rosa Montero
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Early life and education
The daughter of a bullfighter and a housewife, Montero was born in Cuatro Caminos, a district of Madrid. The contra ...
''La loca de la casa''
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Thomas Hettche
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Hettche completed his ''Abitur'' at the Liebigschule Giessen, He studied German studies and philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and ...
Laura Restrepo
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Gamal El-Ghitani
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''Schegge di fuoco''
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Miguel Sousa Tavares
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The son of poet Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen and lawyer and politician Francisco Sousa Tavares, Miguel received his education in Law ...
Night Train to Lisbon
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Alaa Al Aswany
Alaa Al Aswany ( ar, علاء الأسواني, ; born 26 May 1957) is an Egyptian writer, novelist, and a founding member of the political movement Kefaya.
Early life and career
Al Aswany was born on 26 May 1957 in Cairo. His mother, Zainab ...
''Yacoubian Building''
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Philippe Forest
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''Toute la nuit,''
* 2008
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Bernardo Atxaga
Bernardo Atxaga (born 27 July 1951), pseudonym of Joseba Irazu Garmendia, is a Spanish Basque writer and self-translator.
Biography
Atxaga was born in Asteasu, Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, Spain in 1951. He received a diploma in economics from t ...
''Il libro di mio fratello''
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Ingo Schulze
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''Neue Leben''
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Lyudmila Ulitskaya
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''Sincerely Yours, Shurik''
Lifetime Achievement Award
* 1986
Giorgio Melchiori
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Early life
Melchiori wa ...
Carlo Bo
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Biography
Bo was born on January 25, 1911, in Sestri Levante, Italy.
From 1929 to 1 ...
Giovanni Raboni
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Biography
Raboni was born in Milan, the second son of Giuseppe, a clerk at Milan commune, and Matilde Sommariva. In October 1942, after ...
Maria Luisa Spaziani
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Biography
Spaziani was born in Turin. At nineteen, she founded the review ''Il dado'', working with collaborators such as Vasco Pratolini, Sandro Penna and Vincen ...
Fernanda Pivano
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Early life
Pivano was born in Genoa in 1917. When she was a teenager she moved with her family to Turin where she attended the Massimo D ...
Giorgio Amitrano
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Life and career
Amitrano grew up in Naples, graduating from the University of Naples "L'Oriental ...
Luca Damiani
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''Guardati a vista'',
Enzo Muzii
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''Punto di non ritorno''
* 1992 Marco Alloni ''La luna nella Senna''
* 1993
Allen Kurzweil
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''A Case of Curiosities''
* 1994
Silvana Grasso
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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 ...
''Nebbie di ddraunara''
* 1995 Giuseppe Culicchia ''Tutti giù per terra''
* 1996
Alessandro Barbero
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Barbero was born in Turin. He attended the University of Turin, where he studied literature and Medieval history. He won the 1996 Strega Prize, Italy's mos ...
Irgalem
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Sayed Kashua
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Sayed Kashua was b ...
''Dancing Arabs''
* 2005
Rupa Bajwa
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Hélène Grimaud
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Early life and education
Grimaud was born in Aix-en-Provence, France. She described famil ...
''Wild Harmonies''
* 2008
Léonora Miano
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Biography
Léonora Miano was born in Douala in Cameroon. She moved to France in 1991, where she first settled in Valenciennes and then in Nanterre to study American Literature. She pu ...
''Dark heart of the night''
International Award
* 1991
Julien Green
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* 1992
Günter Grass
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Carlos Fuentes
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* 1995
Bohumil Hrabal
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Early life
Hrabal was born in Židenice (suburb of Brno) on 28 March 1914, in what was then the province ...
* 1996
Kenzaburō Ōe
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* 1997
Yves Bonnefoy
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* 1998
Jean Starobinski
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Biography
Starobinski was born in Geneva in 1920, the son of
Jewish physicians Aron Starobinski of Warsaw and Sulka Frydman of Lublin.
Both his parents left ...
Doris Lessing
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Toni Morrison
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* 2002
Daniel Pennac
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Daniel Pennacchioni is the fourth and last son of a Cors ...
* 2003
John Maxwell Coetzee
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* 2004
Mario Vargas Llosa
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* 2005
Anita Desai
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* 2006
Derek Walcott
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Don DeLillo
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Best Non-fiction
* 1996
Pietro Citati
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''La colomba pugnalata''
* 1997 Daria Galateria ''Le fughe del Re Sole''
* 1998 Giuliano Baioni ''Il giovane Goethe''
* 2000
Cesare Segre
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* 2002
Paolo Cesaretti
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Biography
He is the author of works on Byzantine ...
''Teodora'',
Gian Carlo Roscioni
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In Italian, any name including Giovanni can be contracted to Gian, particularly in combination with othe ...
''Il desiderio delle Indie''
* 2007
Alberto Manguel
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''Diario di un lettore''
Grinzane Publishing Award
* 2001
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
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* 2002
André Schiffrin
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Life
Schiffrin was born in Paris, the son of Jacques Schiffrin, a Russian Jew wh ...
* 2003
Antoine Gallimard
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Odile Jacob
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* 2005
Jorge Herralde
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Assia Djebar
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* 2007
Nadine Gordimer
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* 2008
Adunis
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Nuto Revelli Benvenuto "Nuto" Revelli (21 July 1919, Cuneo, Piedmont – 5 February 2004) was an Italian essayist and partisan.
Life
Revelli was a freshly commissioned second lieutenant when, on 21 July 1942, he left Italy on one of the two hundred troop train ...
Wole Soyinka
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* 2001
Toni Morrison
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* 2006
Rigoberta Menchú
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* 2008
Aharon Appelfeld
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Biography
Ervin Appelfeld was born in Jadova Commune, Storojineț County, in the Bukovina ...
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Badenheim 1939
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Intercontinental Dialogue Award
* 2006
Hanif Kureishi
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Early l ...
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Richard Ford
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