Premio Campiello
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The Premio Campiello is an annual Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...

 literary prize.

A Jury of Literary Experts (Giuria di letterati in Italian) identifies books published during the year and, in a public hearing, selects five of those as finalists. These books are called il Premio Selezione Campiello. Then a jury of 300 readers (called Giuria dei 300 lettori) representing different social, cultural and professional groups from each region of Italy, each with one vote, decides the winner of the selection.

History

In 1962 Confindustria
Confindustria
Confindustria is the Italian employers' federation, founded in 1910. It groups together more than 113,000 voluntary member companies, accounting for nearly 4,200,000 individuals. It aims to help Italy's economic growth, assisting, in doing so, its members...

 Veneto
Veneto
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 was seeking a contact between business and the literary sector and decided to formulate a literary prize. The first award was given to 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...

 for his autobiographical book La Tregu
The Truce
The Truce is a book by the Italian author Primo Levi. It describes his experiences returning from the concentration camp at Auschwitz after the Second World War...

a
, translated in Britain as The Truce and in the United States as Reawakening. The ceremony took place in Venice
Venice
Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...

's Teatro Verde on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore
San Giorgio Maggiore
San Giorgio Maggiore is one of the islands of Venice, northern Italy, lying east of the Giudecca and south of the main island group. The isle is surrounded by Canale della Grazia, Canale della Giudecca, Saint Mark Basin, Canale di San Marco and the southern lagoon...

 on September 3, 1963.

Today, the prize is still promoted by Italian businessmen from the Veneto region and it serves to promote Italian literature.

There is a literary prize for young authors, called Campiello Giovani. Participants must prove that they are between 15 and 22 years of age to qualify. The committee that determines the Campiello Giovani is made up of young people. Very often previous winners and finalists serve on the initial jury to determine the current participants. Then, three teachers vote for the five finalists, and the Jury of 300 select the winner.

Some foreign countries, like Germany
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 and Spain
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, have begun to award a prize called Campiello using the same model.

Name

The word campiello is the diminutive of campo. Unlike other cities that use the word piazza to designate plazas and squares, Venice uses the word campo. Campiello is a little square.

Winners

Year Winner Author Published
1963 La tregua  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...

 
Einaudi
Arnoldo Mondadori Editore
Arnoldo Mondadori Editore is the biggest publishing company in Italy.-History:Founded by the 18-year-old Arnoldo Mondadori in 1907 to publish the magazine titled Luce!, it soon became an important publisher. Its headquarters are in Milan....

1964 Il male oscuro  Giuseppe Berto
Giuseppe Berto
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Rizzoli
RCS MediaGroup
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1965 La compromissione Mario Pomicio Vallecchi
1966 Questa specie d'amore Alberto Bevilacqua
Alberto Bevilacqua
Alberto Bevilacqua is an Italian writer and filmmaker. Leonardo Sciascia, an Italian writer and politician, read Bevilacqua's first collection of stories, The Dust on the Grass , was impressed and published it...

 
Rizzoli
1967 Orfeo in Paradiso Luigi Cantucci Mondadori
1968 L'avventura di un povero cristiano Ignazio Silone
Ignazio Silone
Ignazio Silone was the pseudonym of Secondino Tranquilli, an Italian author and politician.-Early life and career:...

 
Mondadori
1969 L'Airone 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...

 
Mondadori
1970 L'attore 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...

Mondadori
1971 Ritratto in piedi Gianna Manzini
Gianna Manzini
Gianna Manzini was an Italian writer whose Ritratto in piedi won her the Premio Campiello in 1971. It is a semi-autobiographical portrait of her father, a noted Italian anarchist...

Mondadori
1972 Per le antiche scale Mario Tobino
Mario Tobino
Mario Tobino was an Italian poet, writer and psychiatrist.Tobino was born in Viareggio, Tuscany. A prolific writer, he debuted as a poet but later composed mostly novels...

Mondadori
1973 Il trono di legno Carlo Sgorlon Mondadori
1974 Alessandra Stefano Terra Bompiani
1975 Il prato in fondo al mare Stanislao Nievo
Stanislao Nievo
Stanislao Nievo is an Italian writer, journalist and director. He won the Strega Prize. It is the little little son of Ippolito Nievo, author of Le confessioni di un italiano.-Works:...

 
Mondadori
1976 Il busto di gesso Gaetano Tumiati Mursia
1977 Il selvaggio di Santa Venere Saverio Strati Mondadori
1978 Carlo Magno Gianni Granzotto  Mondadori
1979 Storia di Tönle 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...

 
Einaudi
1980 Il fratello italiano Giovanni Arpino
Giovanni Arpino
Giovanni Arpino was an Italian writer and journalist.- Life :Born in Pula to Piedmontese parents, Arpino moved to Bra in the Province of Cuneo...

 
Rizzoli
1981 Diceria dell'untore Gesualdo Bufalino
Gesualdo Bufalino
Gesualdo Bufalino , was an Italian writer.Gesualdo Bufalino was born in Comiso, Sicily. He studied literature and was, for most of his life a high-school professor in his hometown...

 
Sellerio
1982 Se non ora quando? Primo Levi Einaudi
1983 La conchiglia di Anataj Carlo Sgorlon Mondadori
1984 Per amore, solo per amore Pasquale Festa Campanile Bompiani
1985 Gli occhi di una donna Mario Biondi Longanesi
1986 La partita Alberto Ongaro Longanesi
1987 I fuochi del Basento Raffaele Nigro Camunia
1988 Le strade di polvere Rosetta Loy Einaudi
1989 Effetti personali Francesca Duranti Rizzoli
1990 La lunga vita di Marianna Ucrìa Dacia Maraini
Dacia Maraini
Dacia Maraini is an Italian writer. She is the daughter of Sicilian Princess Topazia Alliata di Salaparuta, an artist and art dealer, and of Fosco Maraini, a Florentine ethnologist and mountaineer of mixed Ticinese, English and Polish background who wrote in particular on Tibet and Japan...

 
Rizzoli
1991 Di buona famiglia Isabella Bossi Fedrigotti Longanesi
1992 La casa a Nord-Est Sergio Maldini Marsilio
1993 La valle dei cavalieri Raffaele Crovi Mondadori
1994 Sostiene Pereira
Sostiene Pereira (novel)
Sostiene Pereira is a novel written by Antonio Tabucchi in 1994. It follows Pereira, a journalist for the culture column of a small Lisbon newspaper, as he struggles with his conscience and the restrictions of the fascist regime of Antonio Salazar...

 
Antonio Tabucchi
Antonio Tabucchi
Antonio Tabucchi is an Italian writer and academic who teaches Portuguese language and literature at the University of Siena, Italy....

 
Feltrinelli
1995 Il coraggio del pettirosso Maurizio Maggiani Feltrinelli
1996 Esilio Enzo Bettiza
Enzo Bettiza
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Mondadori
1997 Il caso Courrier Marta Morazzoni  Longanesi
1998 Il talento Cesare De Marchi Feltrinelli
1999 Fuochi fiammanti a un’hora di notte Ermanno Rea Rizzoli
2000 La forza del passato Sandro Veronesi
Sandro Veronesi
Sandro Veronesi, born in Prato, Tuscany in 1959, is an Italian novelist, essayist, and journalist. After earning a degree in architecture at the University of Florence, he opted for a writing career in his mid to late twenties. Veronesi published his first book at the age of 25, a collection of...

 
Bompiani
2001 Nati due volte Giuseppe Pontiggia
Giuseppe Pontiggia
Giuseppe Pontiggia was an Italian writer and literary critic.He was born in Como, and moved to Milan with his family in 1948. In 1959 he graduated from the Università Cattolica in Milan with a thesis on Italo Svevo...

Mondadori
2002 Il custode dell’acqua Franco Scaglia Piemme
2003 Il Maestro dei santi pallidi Marco Santagata Guanda
2004 Una barca nel bosco Paola Mastrocola Guanda
2005 Mandami a dire and
Il sopravvissuto (tie)
Pino Roveredo
Antonio Scurati
Bompiani
2006 La vedova scalza Salvatore Niffoi  Adelphi
Adelphi Edizioni
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2007 Mille anni che sto qui Mariolina Venezia Einaudi
2008 Rossovermiglio Benedetta Cibrario Feltrinelli
2009 Venuto al mondo Margaret Mazzantini
Margaret Mazzantini
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Mondadori
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