On Saturday, October 5, the Mario Del Monaco Municipal Theater in Treviso will host at 10 .00 the final meeting of the Giovanni Comisso – Regione del Veneto Città di Treviso Literary Prize, now in its XLIII edition.
The 70 members of the Grand Jury are called to vote in public session on the works of the two finalist trios in the Italian Fiction and Biography sections, selected by the Technical Jury last June 7, also in public session at the Came in Dosson di Casier.
In Italian Fiction the selected are:
Di cosa è fatta la speranza by Emmanuel Exitu (Bompiani)
La verità e la biro by Tiziano Scarpa (Einaudi)
L’uomo dell’enciclopedia by Marco Cavalli (Neri Pozza)
In Biography:
Adelaida by Adrian N. Bravi (Nutrimenti)
Borroughs. Il virus della parola by Alessandro Gnocchi (Polidoro Editore)
Vico dei miracoli by Marcello Veneziani (Rizzoli)
The Technical Jury of the Prize selected the finalists from the 205 works submitted for selection, including 167 in Italian fiction and 38 for biography.
The Technical Jury is chaired by Pierluigi Panza and also composed of Cristina Battocletti, Benedetta Centovalli, Rolando Damiani, Giancarlo Marinelli, Luigi Mascheroni, Alessandra Necci, Sergio Perosa and Filippo Tuena.
This is an edition of the Comisso Prize with the highest number of works submitted for selection, which is indicative of its well-established national recognition. I would like to thank the public institutions that support us such as the Veneto Region and the City of Treviso and, with an interesting targeted project Le Fabbriche della bellezza, the Chamber of Commerce of Treviso Belluno with President Mario Pozza. The Prize is the culminating moment of a cultural activity promoted by the Friends of Comisso Association that develops throughout the year always under the sign of quality and enhancement of the literary word, with particular attention to our territory as it happens with Venetarium – says Ennio Bianco, President of the Friends of Comisso Association.
Humanistic and material culture – highlights Chamber of Commerce President Mario Pozza – can meet and enrich each other. Industrial enterprises and services are not only economic engines, but – factories of beauty – true catalysts of taste and aesthetics, capable of influencing and drawing cultural bridges with other areas of the planet. It is through this constant dialogue between tradition and innovation that we can enhance our territory, making it increasingly open and capable of grasping changes, reinterpreting them and expressing them in globally desired products and services.
Coordinated by the Education Area of Confindustria Veneto Est, meetings have been organized in Treviso schools with four finalists of this edition of the Comisso Prize. On Friday, October 4, meetings are scheduled in Treviso at Liceo Canova with Alessandro Gnocchi, at Liceo Duca degli Abruzzi with Adrian N. Bravi, at Liceo Vescovile Pio X° with Marco Cavalli and at Liceo Da Vinci with Emmanuel Exitu.
The Comisso Lifetime Achievement Award for Writers from Veneto, promoted by the Associazione Amici di Comisso with the support of CentroMarca Banca, is presented at this final meeting to highlight the cultural and literary journey of an author born, trained or residing in Veneto who has made a name for himself or herself nationally and internationally.
The winner of this edition is Patrizia Valduga, a poet and author of important translations of international poets and writers, born in Castelfranco Veneto and raised in Belluno.
At the selection meeting on June 7, the winning work of the fifth edition of the Premio Comisso under 35 – Rotary Club Treviso, promoted by the Rotary Club Treviso together with the Associazione Amici di Comisso and reserved for writers under 35, was proclaimed. The Jury composed of members of the same Technical Jury of the Comisso Prize and representatives of the Treviso Rotay Club (Caterina Passarelli and Alessandra Del Giudice) chose Nella stanza dell’imperatore by Sonia Aggio (Fazi editore). The author will be honored during the Comisso Prize finals by Rotary Club Treviso President Cesare Calandri and Associazione Amici di Comisso President Ennio Bianco.
The finals on Saturday, October 7, will see greetings from the President of the Associazione Amici di Comisso, Ennio Bianco, and institutional representatives, and Pierluigi Panza, President of the Technical Jury. After the awards of the Comisso for Lifetime Achievement for Writers from Veneto and Comisso under 35 will follow the authors’ speeches, with staged readings for each finalist work by young actors from Tema Cultura of Treviso coordinated by Giovanna Cordova with visual commentary by Francesco Lo Pergolo. At the end, the counting and announcement of the overall winners in the Italian Fiction and Biography Sections.
The meeting will be presented by journalist Maria Pia Zorzi.
The participation of a journalist from the newspaper is welcome.
Friends of Giovanni Comisso Association
The Comisso Prize is promoted by the Friends of Comisso Association and receives support from the Veneto Region, the Municipality of Treviso, Confindustria Veneto Est – Venice Padua Rovigo Treviso Metropolitan Area, the Chamber of Commerce of Treviso – Belluno and the Province of Treviso.
Main sponsors are Fondazione CMB, Parajumpers e Sogea. Insieme a loro, le Aziende amiche del Premio, che sono AccaKappa, AlfDaFrè, Antrax IT, Arper, Bosa, Came, Carron, Dallan Group, De Castelli, Dersut Caffè, Enopiave, Euromobil, Irinox, Italcab, Labomar, Magis, Maglificio Giordano’s, Padoan, Gruppo Pro-Gest, SAC Serigrafia, Texa, Umana, Loredan Gasparini Venegazzù e Veneta Cucine. Sponsor tecnici sono Carlton Hotel, Azienda Agricola Cecchetto, Ristorante Da Celeste, Grafiche Antiga, Klaist, Luca Milanese and Cantina Montelliana.