COSENZA – IT IS Viola Ardone with the book “Grande Meraviglia” (Einaudi publisher) to win the twelfth edition of the Sila ’49 Prize in the Literature section. The novel addresses the problem of mental asylums, closed in 1978 by the Basaglia Law, a very cutting-edge regulation which, however, still today remains disregarded in its delicate and profound intentions.
The Sila Lifetime Achievement Awardwas awarded to the poet and writer Vivian Lamarque. His personal experiences contributed predominantly to his sensitive and original poetic production. The Sila Prize in the Economy and Society section went to Andrea Rinaldo, academic teacher and scientist.
THE prizes from the different sections will be awarded during three days of events which will start on Friday 21 June, at Villa Vecchia in Cosenza. At 6pm, Paride Leporace and Massimo Veltri, juror of the Sila Prize, chat with Andrea Rinaldo, winner of the Sila Prize in the Economy and Society section. The following day, Saturday 22 June, double appointment: at 11.30, at Palazzo Arnone, in Cosenza, Vivian Lamarque will hold a lectio magistralis on the theme “What is poetry (according to Vivian Lamarque)” and at 6pm, again at Palazzo Arnone, Ritanna Armeni hosts the awards ceremony which sees the three winners of this twelfth edition take the stage to receive the Sila Award: Viola Ardone, Andrea Rinaldo and Vivian Lamarque. The program closes the three days of events on Sunday 23 June in Camigliatello Silano, in the headquarters of the Sila Prize Foundation, where at 11am the literary critic, writer and juror of the Sila Prize, Emanuele Trevi, will talk about his book, “La casa del mago” , with Enzo Paolini, president of the Foundation.
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