International Prize Vallombrosa
Gregor von Rezzori
2nd Edition /16th -18th of May 2008
Ernesto Ferrero, President of the Jury is happy to announce the shortlist for the Premio Vallombrosa Gregor von Rezzori 2008:
Peter Cameron, Un giorno questo dolore ti sarà utile (One Day This Pain Will Be Useful To You)
(Adelphi)
José Pablo Feinmann, L’ombra di Heidegger (Heidegger’s Shadow) (Neri Pozza)
Charles Lewinsky La fortuna dei Meijer (Melnitz) (Einaudi)
Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Il pittore di battaglie (The Painter of Battles)
(Marco Tropea Editore)
Gary Shteyngart, Absurdistan (Absurdistan) (Guanda)
Andrea Landolfi, President of the Translation Section is happy to announce the Winner of the Translation Prize:
Silvia Bortoli for the translation of I Buddenbrook by Thomas Mann
(Mondadori).
Events
16th of May, 3.30pm
Press conference - Hotel de la Ville.
5.30 pm
L’Insituto Italiano di Scienze Umane – SUM will host a public conversation between the shortlisted writers and the Fellows of Santa Maddalena in the Palazzo Strozzi.
17th of May, 5.30 pm,
The Provincia di Firenze
which is sponsoring the prize, will host a Lectio magistralis by John Banville in the Luca Giordano room at Palazzo Medici-Riccardi.
18th of May, 11 am
The Prize will be awarded at a ceremony at the Abbazia di Vallombrosa.
The winner will receive €15,000 and a Fellowship at the Santa Maddalena Foundation, the writers' retreat, in the Valdarno near Florence,
established by Beatrice Monti della Corte in her house, in memory of her husband, the writer Gregor von Rezzori.
Announcement of the winner
Arturo Pérez-Reverte was proclaimed the winner.
