The Bagutta Prize is an Italian

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 literary

Literature

Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...

 prize.

It originated in Milan

Milan

Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...

's Bagutta Ristorante. The writer Riccardo Bacchelli

Riccardo Bacchelli

Riccardo Bacchelli was an Italian writer.His first novel was Il filo meraviglioso di Lodovico Clo’ . Then he wrote La città degli amanti . He was one of the founders of the Bagutta Prize.His more popular work was Il mulino del Po ,...

 discovered the restaurant and soon he had numerous friends who would dine together and discuss books. On 11 November 1927 they decided to create a literary prize and named it after the restaurant. Other directors of the prize have been Emilio Tadini, Mario Soldati

Mario Soldati

Mario Soldati was an Italian writer and film director.-Biography:Soldati studied Humanities in his native city, Turin, and History of Art in Rome. He started publishing novels in 1929 although his fame came with America primo amore, published in 1935, a diary about the time he spent teaching at...

, and Isabella Bossi Fedrigotti.

Prizewinners general prize

• 1927 Giovan Battista Angioletti: Il giorno del giudizio (Ribet)
• 1928 Giovanni Comisso
  Giovanni Comisso
  Giovanni Comisso was an Italian writer.Born in Treviso, he was an important figure of the Italian literature of the first half of the 20th century...
  
  : Gente di mare (Treves)
• 1929 Vincenzo Cardarelli
  Vincenzo Cardarelli
  Vincenzo Cardarelli, pseudonym of Nazareno Caldarelli was an Italian journalist, writer and poet.Cardarelli was born in Corneto, Lazio, to a family of Marche origin. His studies were irregular and he tried different jobs...
  
  : Il sole a picco (Mondadori)
• 1930 Gino Rocca: Gli ultimi furono i primi (Treves)
• 1931 Giovanni Titta Rosa: Il varco nel muro (Carabba)
• 1932 Leonida Rèpaci: Storia dei fratelli Rupe (Ceschina)
• 1933 Raul Radice: Vita comica di Corinna (Ceschina)
• 1934 Carlo Emilio Gadda
  Carlo Emilio Gadda
  Carlo Emilio Gadda was an Italian writer and poet. He belongs to the tradition of the language innovators, writers that played with the somewhat stiff standard pre-war Italian language, and added elements of dialects, technical jargon and wordplay.-Biography:Gadda was a practising engineer from...
  
  : Il castello di Udine (Solaria)
• 1935 Enrico Sacchetti: Vita di artista (Treves)
• 1936 Silvio Negro: Vaticano minore (Hoepli)
• 1937-1946 Prize not awarded
• 1947 Dario Ortolani: Il sole bianco Garzanti)
• 1948 Pier Antonio Quarantotti Gambini: L'onda dell'incrociatore (Einaudi)
• 1949 Giulio Confalonieri: Prigionia di un artista (Genio)
• 1950 Vitaliano Brancati
  Vitaliano Brancati
  Vitaliano Brancati was an Italian writer. He was born in Pachino and died in Turin. In 1950 he won the Bagutta Prize.-Selected bibliography:* Don Juan in Sicily * The Handsome Antonio...
  
  : Il bell'Antonio (Bompiani)
• 1951 Indro Montanelli
  Indro Montanelli
  Indro Montanelli was an Italian journalist and historian, known for his new approach to writing history in books such as History of the Greeks and History of Rome....
  
  : Pantheon minore (Longanesi)
• 1952 Francesco Serantini: L'osteria del gatto parlante (Garzanti)
• 1953 Leonardo Borghese: Primo amore (Garzanti)
• 1954 Giuseppe Marotta
  Giuseppe Marotta
  Giuseppe "Beppe" Marotta is an Italian football executive currently serving as Director General and Sports Department CEO of Italian football club Juventus.- Early career :...
  
  : Coraggio, guardiano (Bompiani)
• 1955 Alfonso Gatto
  Alfonso Gatto
  Alfonso Gatto was an Italian author. Along with Giuseppe Ungaretti and Eugenio Montale, he is one of the foremost Italian poets of the 20th century and a major exponent of hermetic poetry.-Biography:...
  
  : La forza degli occhi Mondadori)
• 1956 Giuseppe Lanza
  Giuseppe Lanza
  Giuseppe Lanza, Duke of Camastra, was a 17th century Sicilian nobleman who oversaw the reconstruction of many Sicilian towns and cities following the earthquake of 1693.He was created 1st Duke of Camastra, and Prince of Santo Stefano...
  
  : Rosso sul lago (Cappelli)
• 1957 Pier Angelo Soldini: Sole e bandiere (Ceschina)
• 1958 Lorenzo Montano: A passo d'uomo (Rebellato)
• 1959 Italo Calvino
  Italo Calvino
  Italo Calvino was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy , the Cosmicomics collection of short stories , and the novels Invisible Cities and If on a winter's night a traveler .Lionised in Britain and the United States,...
  
  : Racconti (Einaudi)
• 1960
  • Enrico Emanuelli: Uno di New York (Mondadori)
  • Antonio Barolini
    Antonio Barolini
    Antonio Barolini was an Italian poet and novelist who was born in Vicenza on 29 May 1910, and died in Rome on 21 January 1971. His stories, translated into English by his wife, Helen Barolini, appeared in The New Yorker and then were collected and published as The Last Family Countess, and other...
    
    , Elegie di Croton, (Feltrinelli) (ex aequo)
• 1961 Giorgio Vigolo: Le notti romane (Bompiani)
• 1962 Giuseppe Dessì: Il dissertore (Feltrinelli)
• 1963 Ottiero Ottieri: La linea gotica (Bompiani)
• 1964 Tommaso Landolfi
  Tommaso Landolfi
  Tommaso Landolfi was an Italian author and translator.Born in Pico, province of Frosinone, he wrote numerous grotesque tales and novels, sometimes on the border of speculative fiction, science fiction and realism...
  
  : Rien va (Vallecchi)
• 1965 Biagio Marin
  Biagio Marin
  Biagio Marin was an Italian poet, best known from his poems in the Venetian-Friulian dialect, which had no literary tradition until then. In his writings he has never obeyed rhetoric or poetics...
  
  : Il non tempo del mare (Mondadori)
• 1966 Manlio Cancogni: La linea dei Tomori (Mondadori)
• 1967 Primo Levi
  Primo Levi
  Primo Michele Levi was an Italian Jewish chemist and writer. He was the author of two novels and several collections of short stories, essays, and poems, but is best known for If This Is a Man, his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland...
  
  : Storie naturali (Einaudi)
• 1968 Piero Chiara
  Piero Chiara
  Piero Chiara was an Italian writer.He was born in Luino, on Lake Maggiore into a family of Sicilian origin. Sought by the Fascist milice during World War II, he fled to Switzerland in 1944...
  
  : Il balordo (Mondadori)
• 1969 Niccolò Tucci
  Niccolò Tucci
  Niccolò Tucci was a short story writer and novelist who wrote in English and Italian.Born in Lugano, Switzerland of a Russian mother and an Italian father who became a Swiss citizen, Niccolò Tucci grew up in privileged circumstances that were eliminated by the Bolshevik Revolution. His family...
  
  : Gli atlantici (Garzanti)
• 1970 Alberto Vigevani: L'invenzione (Vallecchi)
• 1971 Pietro Gadda Conti: La paura (Ceschina)
• 1972 Anna Banti
  Anna Banti
  Anna Banti was a novelist, art historian, and translator.- Life and works :...
  
  : Je vous écris d'un pays lontain (Mondadori)
• 1973 Sergio Solmi: Meditazione sullo scorpione (Adelphi)
• 1974 Gianni Celati
  Gianni Celati
  Gianni Celati is an Italian writer, translator and literary critic.- Biography :Gianni Celati was born in Sondrio, but spent his infancy and adolescence in the province of Ferrara...
  
  : Le avventure di Guizzardi (Einaudi)
• 1975 Enzo Forcella: Celebrazioni d'un trentennio (Mondadori)
• 1976 Mario Soldati
  Mario Soldati
  Mario Soldati was an Italian writer and film director.-Biography:Soldati studied Humanities in his native city, Turin, and History of Art in Rome. He started publishing novels in 1929 although his fame came with America primo amore, published in 1935, a diary about the time he spent teaching at...
  
  : Lo specchio inclinato (Mondadori)
• 1977 Sandro Penna
  Sandro Penna
  Sandro Penna was an Italian poet.-Biography:Born in Perugia, Penna lived in Rome for most of his life....
  
  : Stranezze (Garzanti)
• 1878 Carlo Cassola
  Carlo Cassola
  Carlo Cassola was an important Italian novelist and essayist. His novel La Ragazza di Bube , which received the Strega Prize, was adapted into a film by Luigi Comencini in 1963....
  
  : L'uomo e il cane (Rizzoli)
• 1979 Mario Rigoni Stern
  Mario Rigoni Stern
  Mario Rigoni Stern was an Italian author and World War II veteran.His first novel Il sergente nella neve, published in 1953 , draws on his own experience as a Sergeant Major in the Alpini corp during the disastrous retreat from Russia in World War II...
  
  : Storia di Tönle (Einaudi)
• 1980 Giovanni Macchia: L'angelo della notte (Rizzoli)
• 1981 Pietro Citati
  Pietro Citati
  Pietro Citati is a famous Italian writer and literary critic.He has written critical biographies of Goethe, Alexander the Great, Kafka and Marcel Proust as well as a short but unforgettable memoir on his thirty-year friendship with Italo Calvino.In Kafka, Pietro Citati has the great writer...
  
  : Breve vita di Katherine Mansfield (Rizzoli)
• 1982 Vittorio Sereni
  Vittorio Sereni
  Vittorio Sereni was an Italian poet, author, editor and translator of Jewish heritage. His poetry frequently addressed the themes of 20th century Italian history, such as Fascism, Italy's military defeat in World War II, and its postwar resurgence.Born at Luino, Sereni graduated from the...
  
  : Il musicante di Saint-Merry (Einaudi)
• 1983 Giorgio Bassani
  Giorgio Bassani
  Giorgio Bassani was an Italian novelist, poet, essayist, editor, and international intellectual.-Biography:Bassani was born in Bologna into a prosperous Jewish family of Ferrara, where he spent his childhood with his mother Dora, father Enrico , brother Paolo, and sister Jenny...
  
  : In rima e senza (Mondadori)
• 1984 Natalia Ginzburg
  Natalia Ginzburg
  Natalia Ginzburg née Levi was an award-winning Italian author whose work explored family relationships, politics during and after the Fascist years and World War II, and philosophy. She wrote novels, short stories and essays, for which she received the Strega Prize and Bagutta Prize...
  
  : La famiglia Manzoni (Einaudi)
• 1985 Francesca Duranti: La casa sul lago della luna (Rizzoli)
• 1986 Leonardo Sciascia
  Leonardo Sciascia
  Leonardo Sciascia was an Italian writer, novelist, essayist, playwright and politician. Some of his works have been made into films, including Open Doors and Il giorno della civetta .- Biography :Sciascia was born in Racalmuto, Sicily...
  
  : Cronachette (Sellerio)
• 1987 Claudio Magris
  Claudio Magris
  Claudio Magris is an Italian scholar, translator and writer.Magris graduated from the University of Turin, where he studied German studies, and has been a professor of modern German literature at the University of Trieste since 1978.He is an essayist and columnist for the Italian newspaper...
  
  : Danubio (Garzanti)
• 1988 Luciano Erba: Il tranviere metafisico (Scheiwiller)
• 1989 Luigi Meneghello
  Luigi Meneghello
  Luigi Meneghello was an Italian contemporary writer and scholar.-Biography:Luigi Meneghello was born in Malo, a small town in the countryside near Vicenza, on February 16, 1922. His father was a craftsman and his mother was a teacher. Meneghello entered in 1939 the University of Padua to study...
  
  : Bau-sète! (Rizzoli)
• 1990 Fleur Jaeggy
  Fleur Jaeggy
  Fleur Jaeggy is a Swiss writer, of Italian mother tongue.-Life:After completing her studies in Switzerland, Jaeggy went to live in Rome, where she met Ingeborg Bachmann and Thomas Bernhard. In 1968 she went to Milan to work for the publisher Adelphi Edizioni, and married Roberto Calasso. Her first...
  
  : I beati anni del castigo (Adelphi)
• 1991 Livio Garzanti: La fiera navigante (Garzanti)
• 1992 Giorgio Bocca
  Giorgio Bocca
  Giorgio Valentino Bocca is an Italian essayist and journalist, also known for his participation in the World War II partisan movement.- Biography :...
  
  : Il provinciale (Mondadori)
• 1993 Giovanni Giudici: Poesie 1953-1990 (Garzanti)
• 1994 Alberto Arbasino
  Alberto Arbasino
  Alberto Arbasino is an Italian writer and essayist.-Biography:Arbasino was born at Voghera, southern Lombardy. He studied at the University of Milan where he graduated in law. Later he worked as journalist for magazines such as Il Mondo and the newspaper La Repubblica...
  
  : Fratelli d'Italia (Adelphi)
• 1995 Daniele Del Giudice
  Daniele Del Giudice
  Daniele Del Giudice is an Italian author and lecturer. He lives in Venice, where he teaches Theatrical Literature at the University Iuav of Venice.-Prizes:*Viareggio Prize *Bergamo Prize...
  
  : Staccando l'ombra da terra (Einaudi)
• 1996 Raffaello Baldini
  Raffaello Baldini
  Raffaello Baldini was an Italian writer and poet. His Ad nòta won the Premio Bagutta....
  
  : Ad nota (Mondadori)
• 1997 Sergio Ferrero: Gli occhi del padre (Mondadori)
• 1998 Giovanni Raboni
  Giovanni Raboni
  ^Giovanni Raboni was an Italian poet, translator and literary critic.- Biography :Raboni was born in Milan, the second son of Giuseppe, a clerk at Milan commune, and Matilde Sommariva...
  
  : Tutte le poesie (1951–1993) (Garzanti)
• 1999 Fabio Carpi: Patchwork (Bollate Boringhieri)
• 2000
  • Andrea Zanzotto
    Andrea Zanzotto
    -Biography:Andrea Zanzotto was born in Pieve di Soligo , Italy to Giovanni and Carmela Bernardi.His father, Giovanni , had received degrees from the École supèrieure de peinture at Brussels and the Academy of Fine Arts at Bologna...
    
    : Le poesie e prose scelte (Mondadori)
  • Mariano Bargellini: Mus utopicus (Gallino)
• 2001 Serena Vitale: La casa di ghiaccio. Venti piccole storie russe (Mondadori)
• 2002
  • Roberto Calasso
    Roberto Calasso
    Roberto Calasso is an Italian writer and publisher.-Biography:Calasso was born in 1941, into a family of the Tuscan upper class, well connected with some of the great Italian intellectuals of their time. His maternal grandfather Ernesto Codignola was a professor of philosophy at Florence University...
    
    : La letteratura e gli dei (Adelphi)
  • Giorgio Orelli: Il collo dell'anitra (Garzanti)
• 2003
  • Michele Mari
    Michele Mari
    Michele Mari is an Italian novelist, short story writer, academic critic and poet. The son of a prestigious Milanese industrial designer and artist, Enzo Mari, Michele teaches Italian literature at the Università Statale di Milano; he is considered one of the leading experts of Eighteenth-Century...
    
    : Tutto il ferro della Tour Eiffel (Einaudi)
  • Edoardo Sanguineti
    Edoardo Sanguineti
    Edoardo Sanguineti was an Italian writer who was born in Genoa.-Biography:During the 1960s he was a leader of the neo avant-garde Gruppo 63 movement, founded in 1963 at Solunto....
    
    : Il gatto lupesco (Feltrinelli)
  • Eva Cantarella
    Eva Cantarella
    Eva Cantarella is a leading Italian classicist noted for examining ancient law by relating it to modern legal issues through law and society perspective...
    
    : Itaca (Feltrinelli)
• 2004 Franco Cordero: Le strane regole del sig. B (Garzanti)
• 2005 Rosetta Loy: Nero è l'albero dei ricordi, azzurra l'aria (Einaudi)
• 2006
  • Filippo Tuena: Le variazioni di Reinach (Rizzoli)
  • Eugenio Borgna: L'attesa e la speranza (Feltrinelli)
• 2007 Alessandro Spina: I confini dell'ombra (Morcelliana)
• 2008 Andrej Longo: Dieci (Adelphi)
• 2009 Melania Mazzucco: La lunga attesa dell'angelo (Rizzoli)
• 2010 Corrado Stajano: La città degli untori (Garzanti)

Prizewinners first book

• 1987 Franca Grisoni: La böba (San Marco dei Giustiniani)
• 1991 Bruno Arpaia
  Bruno Arpaia
  -Life:After his degree in Political Sciences and a specialisation in American History at the University of Naples, he taught there and then became a journalist with the Italian newspaper Il Mattino of Naples, subsequently moving to Milan in 1989, where he worked for the daily La Repubblica.In 1990...
  
  : I forastieri (Leonardo)
• 1992
  • Antonio Franchini: Camerati. Quattro novelle su come diventare grandi (Leonardo)
  • Filippo Tuena: Lo sguardo della paura (Leonardo)
• 1994 Laura Bosio: I dimenticati (Feltrinelli)
• 1995 Piero Meldini: L'avvocata delle vertigini (Adelphi)
• 1996
  • Carola Susani: Il libro di Teresa (Giunti)
  • Alessandro Gennari: Le ragioni del sangue (Garzanti)
• 1997 Patrizia Veroli: Millos (LIM)
• 1998
  • Helena Janeczeck: Lezioni di tenebra (Fazi)
  • Andrea Kerbaker: Fotogrammi (Scheiwiller)
• 1999
  • Tommaso Giartosio: Doppio Ritratto (Fazi)
  • Rosa Matteucci: Lourdes (Adelphi)
• 2000
  • Mariano Bargellini: Mus utopicus (Gallino)
  • Giovanni Chiara: L'agghiaccio (Marsilio)
• 2001
  • Silvia Di Natale: Kuraj (Feltrinelli)
  • Luigi Guarnieri: L’atlante criminale. Vita scriteriata di Cesare Lombroso (Mondadori)
• 2002 Paolo Maccari, Ospiti (Manni)
• 2003 Giuseppe Curonici: L'interruzione del Parsifal dopo il primo atto (Interlinea)
• 2004 Wanda Marasco: L'arciere d'infanzia (Manni)
• 2005 Sandro Lombardi
  Sandro Lombardi
  Sandro Lombardi is a Swiss footballer who plays for Swiss Challenge League club FC Wil.-Biography:Lombardi started his career at Grasshopper Club Zürich, and played for its reserve team at regional league. In 2009 he joined Italian Lega Pro Seconda Divisione and a year later signed a reported...
  
  : Gli anni felici. Realtà e memoria nel lavoro dell'attore (Garzanti)
• 2006 Ascanio Celestini: Storie di uno scemo di guerra (Einaudi)
• 2007 Pierluigi Cappello
  Pierluigi Cappello
  Pierluigi Cappello is an Italian poet, born in Gemona del Friuli, Italy, in 1967. He grew up in Chiusaforte.He won the 2010 Viareggio-Rèpaci prize for poetry with the poem Mandate a dire all'imperatore.-References:...
  
  : Assetto di volo (Crocetti)
• 2008 Elena Varvello: L'economia delle cose (Fandango)
• 2009 Guido Rampoldi: La mendicante azzurra (Feltrinelli)
• 2010 Filippo Bologna: Come ho perso la guerra (Fandango)