The Flaiano Prizes ( it, Premi Flaiano) are a set of Italian international awards recognizing achievements in the fields of creative writing, cinema, theater and radio-television.
/ref> 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 A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more cinemas or screening venues, usually in a single city or region. Increasingly, film festivals show some films outdoors. Films may be of recent date and, depending upo ...

, 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, best film of onset and also the premium carriera. The highest award given is the Flaiano gold for the film which is reserved to 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 Goffredo Parise (8 December 1929 in Vicenza – 31 August 1986 in Treviso) was an Italian writer, journalist, and screenwriter. He won the Viareggio Prize in 1965 for his novel ''Il padrone'' ''(The Boss)'' and the Strega Prize in 1982 for '' ...

*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 Pietro Citati (20 February 1930 – 28 July 2022) was an Italian writer and literary critic. He was born in Florence. He wrote critical biographies of Goethe, Alexander the Great, Kafka and Marcel Proust as well as a short memoir on his thirty-ye ...

*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, 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 William John Banville (born 8 December 1945) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, adapter of dramas and screenwriter. Though he has been described as "the heir to Proust, via Nabokov", Banville himself maintains that W. B. Yeats and Henry J ...

, Francesca Sanvitale,

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 ...

, Antonio Cibotto *1992:

Peter Handke Peter Handke (; born 6 December 1942) is an Austrian novelist, playwright, translator, poet, film director, and screenwriter. He was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored t ...

, Giuliana Morandini, José Saramago *1993:

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio Jean-Marie is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: * Jean-Marie Abgrall (born 1950), a French psychiatrist, criminologist, specialist in forensic medicine, cult expert, and graduate in criminal law * Jean-Marie C ...

, 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 F ...

, Marie NDiaye, Giuseppe Pontiggia *1995: Daniele Del Giudice, Allan Folsom, Jostein Gaarder *1996: Enzo Bettiza,

Paulo Coelho Paulo Coelho de Souza (, ; born 24 August 1947) is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters since 2002. His novel ''The Alchemist'' became an international best-seller and he has published 28 more book ...

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 Sable ...

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 Corsic ...

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 Thomas Leo Clancy Jr. (April 12, 1947 – October 1, 2013) was an American novelist. He is best known for his technically detailed espionage and military-science storylines set during and after the Cold War. Seventeen of his novels have b ...

, Dacia Maraini, Patrick Robinson *1998:

Andrea Camilleri Andrea Calogero Camilleri (; 6 September 1925 – 17 July 2019) was an Italian writer. Biography Originally from Porto Empedocle, Girgenti, Sicily, Camilleri began university studies in the Faculty of Literature at the University of Palermo, b ...

, Daniel Chavarría,

Ian McEwan Ian Russell McEwan, (born 21 June 1948) is an English novelist and screenwriter. In 2008, ''The Times'' featured him on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945" and ''The Daily Telegraph'' ranked him number 19 in its list of th ...

*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 V ...

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

Per Olov Enquist Per Olov Enquist, also known as P. O. Enquist, (23 September 1934 – 25 April 2020) was a Swedish author. He had worked as a journalist, playwright and novelist. Biography Enquist was born and raised in , a village in present-day Skellef ...

*2003: John Crowley, 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, Enrique Vila-Matas *2007:

Hisham Matar Hisham Matar ( ar, هشام مطر) (born 1970) is an American born British-Libyan writer. His memoir of the search for his father, '' The Return'', won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography and the 2017 PEN America Jean Stein Bo ...

*2008: Alberto Arbasino, Ismail Kadaré,

Alice Munro Alice Ann Munro (; ; born 10 July 1931) is a Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Munro's work has been described as revolutionizing the architecture of short stories, especially in its tendency to move f ...

*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 sch ...

(opera prima) *2011:

Margaret Mazzantini Margaret Mazzantini (; born 27 October 1961) is an Italian- Irish writer and actress. She became a film, television and stage actor, but is best known as a writer. Mazzantini began her acting career in 1980 starring in the cult horror classic ' ...

, 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 Sebastiano Vassalli (24 October 1941 – 26 July 2015) was an Italian author. He wrote the 2007 novel ''The Italian (L'italiano)''. Vassalli was born in Genoa, Italy in 1941. His mother are from Tuscany and father were from Lombardy. At a ver ...

*2015: Giorgio Patrizi *2016:

Jonathan Coe Jonathan Coe (; born 19 August 1961) is an English novelist and writer. His work has an underlying preoccupation with political issues, although this serious engagement is often expressed comically in the form of satire. For example, '' What a ...

*2018: Andrea Moro *2019: Valeria Parrella

Super Flaiano of Literature

*1991:

*1992:

José Saramago José de Sousa Saramago, GColSE ComSE GColCa (; 16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010), was a Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony ith which hecon ...

*1993:

Luis Sepúlveda Luis Sepúlveda Calfucura (October 4, 1949 – April 16, 2020) was a Chilean writer and journalist. A communist militant and fervent opponent of Augusto Pinochet's regime, he was imprisoned and tortured by the military dictatorship during the ...

*1994:

Giuseppe Pontiggia Giuseppe Pontiggia (; 25 September 1934 – 27 June 2003) was an Italian literature, Italian writer and literary critic. Biography He was born in Como, and moved to Milan with his family in 1948. In 1959 he graduated from the Università Cattoli ...

*1995: Daniele Del Giudice *1996:

*1997: Carlo Sgorlon *1998:

*1999: Edwidge Danticat *2000: Javier Marías, Fabrizia Ramondino *2001: Roberto Pazzi *2002:

*2003: John Crowley *2004: Paolo Di Stefano *2005: Raffaele Nigro *2006:

*2008:

*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 Vince ...

*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 Seamus Justin Heaney (; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.

*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 Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti (March 24, 1919 – February 22, 2021) was an American poet, painter, social activist, and co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. The author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, an ...

*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 Alfred Charles Tomlinson, CBE (8 January 1927 – 22 August 2015) was an English poet, translator, academic, and illustrator. He was born in Penkhull, and grew up in Basford, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. Life After attending Longton High Sc ...

*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 *2008: Michail Andreev, Laura Benedetti, Angela Barwig e 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 *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 Imre Kertész (; 9 November 192931 March 2016) was a Hungarian author and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history". He was ...

*2005:

Wole Soyinka Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka (Yoruba: ''Akínwándé Olúwọlé Babátúndé Ṣóyíinká''; born 13 July 1934), known as Wole Soyinka (), is a Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist in the English language. He was awarded t ...

*2006:

Antonio Skármeta Antonio Skármeta (born Esteban Antonio Skármeta Vranicic on November 7, 1940) is a Chilean writer, scriptwriter and director descending from Croatian immigrants from the Adriatic island of Brač, Dalmatia. He was awarded Chile's National Lit ...

*2010 Premi speciali per il centenario della nascita di Ennio Flaiano: Roberto Saviano, per l'alto valore morale e l'impegno etico della sua opera. Tonino Guerra, poeta e scrittore di cinema *2012: Hussein Mahmoud (Premio speciale di italianistica) *2013 Premi speciali per il 40°: Adonis per la poesia. Jaroslaw Mikolaiewski per la Cultura Italiana nel Mondo. Salvatore Settis

References

External links

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