The winners of the special prizes of the 95th edition of the Viareggio-Rèpaci literary prize were announced today: the jury awarded the International Award “Viareggio-Versilia” to Anita Likmeta, the Journalism Award was awarded to Giovanna Reanda, while to win the First Work Award was Alice Valeria Oliveri.
Anita Likmeta is an entrepreneur born in Durazzo, Albania, during the communist regime of Enver Hoxha, naturalized Italian. She arrived in Italy after the civil war in 1997. She obtained her classical high school diploma and graduated in Literature and Philosophy. In 2024 you published your first novel “The Fables of Communism”, Marsilio Editori.
Giovanna Reanda from this year she is the new director of Radio Radicale. You are Roman, born in 1966, in 1990 you started in the archives of the broadcaster founded by Marco Pannella, where after a few months you moved to the editorial team and, before your appointment, you held the role of deputy editor-in-chief. She graduated in art history and has been a professional journalist since 1997. She was a parliamentary correspondent for many years and a member of the Board of Directors of the ASP and Stampa Romana.
Alice Valeria Oliveri she is a journalist and author. Born in Catania in 1992, since 2014 she has been involved in television, cinema, music and new media, collaborating with various magazines such as «Esquire», «Link – idee per la tv», «The Vision» and «Domani». Since 2019 she has been an analyst on the Rai3 TV Talk program and since 2022 she has been the author and host of the podcast The short decade.
She collaborates with Mediaset Infinity as an author of video formats and in 2023 she published her first novel Saturday champagne, published by Solferino. He published for Einaudi Worldwide vision. Atlas of contemporary TV (2024).
The next 10th of July The winners for the poetry and non-fiction categories competing respectively will also be announced Stefano Dal Bianco (ParadiseGarzanti), Mariangela Gualtieri (Beautiful World, Einaudi), Laura Pugno (The namesThe Ship of Theseus), e Pierluigi Battista (My heroes, The ship of Theseus), Francesco Gambino (In the room with the right, The ship of Theseus), Vincenzo Trione (Heavenly prologueEinaudi).
Friday 26 July in Piazza Mazzini in Viareggio, the authors of the books included in the finalist trio, in dialogue with the jury, will present their works to the public, while The final evening will be held on Saturday 27 July at 9pm with the awaited announcement of the winner for the narrative category which sees candidates Silvia Avallone (Black Heart, Rizzoli), Federica De Paolis(From the mother’s sideFeltrinelli) e Marco Lodoli (Very littleEinaudi), and the award ceremony for the winners, for each section, of Viareggio-Rèpaci prize 2024.
The Award Jury is composed of Paolo Mieli (President) – journalist, essayist and historian, Leonardo Colombati (vice president) – writer, Luca Alvino – poet, Maria Pia Ammirati – television executive, writer and journalist, Camilla Baresani – writer and teacher, Giorgio Biferali – writer and teacher, Maria Borio – poetess, Gabriella Buontempo – film producer, Diamond D’Alessio – journalist, Francesca Ferrandi – author, Costanza Geddes from Filicaia – teacher of contemporary Italian literature, Emma Giammattei – teacher of Italian Literature, Luciano Luciani professor and journalist, Edoardo Nesi – writer and essayist, Mirella Serri – teacher of Literature and Journalism.
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