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ALBERICO SALA
Alberico Sala was born in 1923 in Vailate, a small village of the so-called Geradadda, “a spellbound land” – in his own words – , a three-language area, stage of decisive historical crossings.
He started his career as a journalist at a young age, first in Bergamo, then in Rome and eventually in Milan. He was a film reviewer for the Corriere d’Informazione, worked together with the poet Eugenio Montale, also mastering the music review page.
Together with Dino Buzzati, he started the art page of Corriere della Sera, the main Italian newspaper where he returned, in 1978, as an art critic, after working for five years at Il Giorno. Feature writer, he wrote about art and literature. His works (novels, short stories, poetry, essays) have been translated in several languages. He passed away in 1991. His people still recall the “poet of Geradadda” who loved his land so much and did his utmost to make it known and appreciated all over the world.
RECORD OF THE CONTEST:
The Prize was started in 1987 by Alberico Sala himself, who chaired it until 1991, year of his premature death. The original name of “Premio Vailate” was then changed to “Premio Vailate-Sala” and so remained until 2001. Then six years of silence came, before the Fondazione Cassa Rurale di Treviglio took the prize back to life and renamed it “Premio Letterario Europeo Alberico Sala” (European Literary Prize Alberico Sala). The prize is supported by the Foundation of the Corriere della Sera, the newspaper where Sala worked for about forty years. Among the sections: journalism, poetry, narrative, and a special prize for new talents. The prize, that gathers every year the biggest names of literature in Treviglio (just a few kilometres from Milan), aims to reconnect the international cultural stage with a more intimate and local dimension, the one that Alberico Sala loved so much.
Here are the laureates of the previous editions.
1988: Emilio Tadini (narrativa) e Franco Fortini (saggistica);
Panel: Alberico Sala, Giovanni Testori, Guido Bezzola, Giuliano Gramigna,
Lorenzo Mondo
1989 : Oreste del Buono e Daniele del Giudice (narrative), Silvio Guarneri (essay), Silvio Ramat (poetry), Fabrizio De Andrè (Orfeo d'Oro);
Panel: Alberico Sala, Giovanni Testori, Guido Bezzola, Giuliano Gramigna, Lorenzo Mondo, Vittorio Franchini
1990 :
Sergio Ferrero (narrative), Emanuele Severino (essay), Roberto Sanesi (poetry);
Panel: Alberico Sala, Giovanni Testori, Guido Bezzola, Giuliano Gramigna, Lorenzo Mondo, Vittorio Franchini
1991 :
Maria Corti (narrative), Vittorio Sermonti (essay), Giovanni Raboni (poetry), Fabrizio Capecchi (young author - laureate), Marco Carminati (designated young author);
Panel: Alberico Sala, Giovanni Testori, Guido Bezzola, Giuliano Gramigna, Lorenzo Mondo, Vittorio Franchini
1992 :
Paolo Volponi (narrative), Mina Gregori (essay), Giovanni Giudici (poetry);
Panel: Sebastiano Grasso, Raffaele De Grada, Carlo Castellaneta, Guido Bezzola, Giuliano Gramigna, Lorenzo Mondo, Enzo Fabiani, Giovanni Raimondi
1993 :
Giuseppe Pontiggia (narrative), Stefano Agosti (essay), Rafael Alberti (poetry);
Panel: Sebastiano Grasso, Raffaele De Grada, Carlo Castellaneta, Guido Bezzola, Giuliano Gramigna, Lorenzo Mondo, Enzo Fabiani, Giovanni Raimondi, Mario Luzi
1994 :
Mario Vargas Llosa (narrative), Carlo Bertelli (essay), Franco Loi (poetry), Franca Bacchiegia (special prize);
Panel: Sebastiano Grasso, Raffaele De Grada, Carlo Castellaneta, Guido Bezzola, Giuliano Gramigna, Lorenzo Mondo, Enzo Fabiani, Giovanni Raimondi, Mario Luzi
1995 :
Luigi Malerba (narrative), Carlo Bo (essay), Josif Brodskij (poetry);
Panel: Sebastiano Grasso, Raffaele De Grada, Carlo Castellaneta, Giuliano Gramigna, Giovanni Raimondi, Mario Luzi, Ermanno Krumm
1996 :
Pietro Citati (narrative), Jean Clair (essay), Andrea Zanzotto (poetry), Oretta Dalle Ore (poetry – First Work);
Panel: Sebastiano Grasso, Raffaele De Grada, Carlo Castellaneta, Giuliano Gramigna, Giovanni Raimondi, Mario Luzi, Ermanno Krumm
1997 :
Daniele del Giudice (narrative), Luigi Meneghello (essay), Edoardo Sanguineti (poetry);
Panel: Sebastiano Grasso, Raffaele De Grada, Carlo Castellaneta, Giuliano Gramigna, Giovanni Raimondi, Giò Pomodoro, Ermanno Krumm
2001 :
Fleur Jaeggy (narrative), Mario Lavagetto (essay), Maurizio Cucchi (poetry);
Panel: Sebastiano Grasso, Raffaele De Grada, Stefano Agosti, Rossana Bossaglia, Giò Pomodoro, Ermanno Krumm, Francesca Bonazzoli
2007 :
Giulio Anselmi e Giovanni Di Lorenzo (journalism), Evgeny Evtushenko e Katarina Frostenson (poetry), Antonio Paolucci and Jean Starobinski (essay), Paolo Cesaretti (special prize);
Panel: Sebastiano Grasso, Kengiro Azuma, Carlo Bertelli, Raffaele De Grada, Martin Mc Laughlin, P. Rosenberg, Luis Antonio De Villena
2008 :
Adonis (poetry), Cesare Segre (essay), Lanfranco Vaccari (journalism), Vincenzo Latronico (young author);
Panel: Sebastiano Grasso, Kengiro Azuma, Martin Mc Laughlin, Luis Antonio De Villena, Marina Giaveri, Giulio Anselmi, Carlo Montaleone
LAUREATES: 2009/2010 EDITION
Narrative:
ALBERTO ARBASINO
Alberto Arbasino (Voghera, 1930), writer, journalist and critic, made his literary debut in 1955, when his story Distesa estate was published on “Paragone”. Amazing storyteller, he was a member of Gruppo 63 and he’s actually one of the most prolific writers around, his activities include literature, theatre, music, arts and movies. One of his most significant works, Fratelli d’Italia (1963), re-written and extended in 1976 and 1993, is a surprising gallery of bad habits and virtues, tics and small manias of his period and cultural context, the narration is mixed with pieces of essay and dialogues. A lively, witty and unrivalled narrative style. Amongst his poetry works, one of the most important is the collection Matinée (1983). Arbasino often dealt with theatre: he directed the "Traviata" by Verdi (1965) in Cairo, and the "Carmen" by Bizet at the Municipal Theatre in Bologna (1967). He has also been a theatre and lyric opera critic for over forty years: some of his reviews are included in Grazie per le magnifiche rose (1965); La maleducazione teatrale (1966). Amongst his latest works, Dall’Ellade a Bisanzio and L’ingegnere in blu. The editor Meridiani Mondadori has recently issued two volumes containing his opera omnia.
Journalism:
MASSIMO FRANCO
Massimo Franco (Rome, 1954), journalist and writer, currently a feature writer and politic correspondent for the newspaper Corriere della Sera, he was previously an editorialist for Avvenire and a correspondent for Il Giorno and later on for Panorama. A famous essayist, he’s a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies of London. He occasionally collaborates with Rai Radio 3, LA7 and Rai Tre. His articles and analyses have appeared on the geo-politics magazine Limes, the French publication Études, the British magazine IISS Survival and the USA newspaper Los Angeles Times. His latest essay, Imperi paralleli (Mondadori, 2005), has been translated in English and will be edited by Random House, New York. Mondadori has recently edited Franco’s Tutti a casa (1993), Hammamet (1995) and Andreotti (2009), which won the Capalbio prize for politics.
Poetry:
CÉSAR ANTONIO MOLINA
César Antonio Molina (La Coruña, 1952), extraordinary poet, he graduated in Law in the University of Santiago de Compostela and Information Sciences at the Complutense University of Madrid, where he was a professor, too. He has been teaching Journalism for several years at the University Carlos III di Madrid, where he also coordinated the humanistic summer courses at the El Escorial. Between 1985 and 1996 he worked for Cambio 16 and Diario 16, as an added director and responsible for Culture. General Director of the Cervantes Institutes and the Fine Arts Institute of Madrid, he’s been Minister of Culture with the Zapatero Government from 2007 to 2009. He published about thirty poetry, essayistic and narrative books. His works have been translated in several languages. His latest book La fuga dell’amore (Ponte alle Grazie) has been recently presented at the Book Exhibiton in Turin.
Special prize First work:
SIMONE CALTABELLOTA
Simone Caltabellota (Roma, 1969). He started his professional career as editor at Fazi Editore, of which he later became editorial director. He founded Lain Editors, discovered and published cult authors such as Melissa P., JT Leroy and Stephenie Meyer, and edited several works by Manlio Cancogni, John Fante, Charles Bukowski, Nikki Sudden. He’s co-author of the contemporary Italian poetry anthology Ci sono fiori che fioriscono al buio (Frassinelli, 1997). His works have been published by Nuovi Argomenti and Darsena. Il giardino elettrico, edited by Bompiani, is his first book. Caltabellota is passionate with music and deals with it through his own label, Sleeping Star.