Published 14 Mar 2018 - 11.17
Literature
Mario Rigoni Stern Award winners for Multilingual literature of the Alps
TRENTO. On 13 March 2018 the jury composed by Ilvo Diamanti, Paola Maria Filippi, Mario Isnenghi, Daniele and Paolo Rumiz, coordinated by journalist Margherita Detomas, met the Muse , The Science Museum in Trento to decide the 2018 Prize winner Mario Rigoni Stern for Multilingual literature of the Alps.
THE WINNERS
Named after the great Italian writer recognition went to Marco Paolini and Gianfranco Bettin for the opera "the adventures of prime number" (Einaudi) for the following reasons:
The fantafavola of Marco Paolini and Gianfranco Bettin depicts a future world turned from biotechnology in which artificial intelligence turns out to have, unknowingly, even a heart. In this reality the mountain preserves its irreducible difference compared to a globalised world, where Marghera and Venice invade the Plains as far as the Alps and the same sea loses its specificity. The mountain comes to light Nicola, a prime number as it prefers to be called, the strange and delightful protagonist of the book. Emerging from a glacier. The mountain is the shelter where he, the goat bionics and Ettore, the adoptive father, repair in time of danger. And the mountain is where dies Matilda – the "mother" – exit winner in his fight for the preservation of man. At a retreat of ice at the end of the circle ".
Achieved by the news Marco Paolini and Gianfranco Bettin said:
We are honored by this award and particularly happy to honor our time Mario Rigoni Stern.
Mario was a friend and a human, moral and cultural landmark, and is still a source of constant inspiration. The mountain in our book we tell with trepidation to its fate, threatened by climate change and waste, obnoxious, and the instability produced by certain uses with wonder at her beauty and enduring, is the one who taught us to love and obey, who has taught everyone to love and respect. And also the living heart of the story that we brought on stage and on the printed page, the place where Prime comes into the world and where to find shelter, an opportunity and a message that apply to everyone, just like Mario Rigoni Stern had said with clear words deep, unforgettable.
THE ALERTS
The jury of the Prize Mario Rigoni Stern received this year many more books than in previous years, ben 54 volumes. In view of the originality and diversity of submitted works, therefore considered it appropriate to take exceptionally reported rose to five. Two volumes addressing topics of particular importance of mountains today: the fragility of its landscape and the presence of new inhabitants came from afar. Three instead with great narrative ability tell the mountain past and present.
The many forms of "return to the mountain" mark our years and renew the range of works submitted for the prize, is no longer marked as a sign too prevalent by nostalgia and regret.
AAVV, by force or by choice. Foreign immigration in the Alps and Apennines (Arachne)
Development and expansion of an essay I agree (2017) this volume brings together multidisciplinary approaches of sociologists, anthropologists, economists, the big and very current theme of foreign immigration in the Alps and Apennines.
Antonella Nugefstegupp, fragile landscape (Einaudi)
The fresco read and thoughtfully to Antonella Nugefstegupp explores the territories, symbolic and material, of an Italy seen from the margins, suggesting "a new feel of the place" with four ' minor ' different itineraries and the like between Piedmont and Liguria, inspired and concluded by a "use ecological memory ".
Gaëlle Cavalié, Cents heures de solitude (Paulsen – Guerin)
Salvation comes from heaven in the form of helicopter, after four days and nights of solitary bivouac to four thousand metres, gives life to the piano-tale of the stream of thought, of regrets, of small gestures, fear, young Gaëlle Cavalié. Unclothed and without rhetoric offers a wonderful glimpse into the innermost dimension of modern alpinism.
Ilaria Tuti, flowers over hell (Longanesi)
Ilaria Tuti offers an image of the mountains far from any complacency and sweetened vision. Alpine environment is masterfully described by the author in its hardness and evil which does not compromise charm and fascination. The protagonist's investigations bring to light stories and dynamics where present and past intertwine creating a scenario to the limits of credibility.
Massimo Bubola, Untitled Ballad (Frassinelli).
Great war and mountain is an inseparable. Massimo Bubola in his Untitled Ballad singing and recalls the conclusion of the first world war by giving identity and voice to the remains of the soldiers which was selected the unknown soldier.
THE JURY
The jury of the Prize Mario Rigoni Stern for Multilingual literature of the Alps is composed of outstanding personalities of the Italian cultural world.
Diamond llvo, Professor of political science at the University of Urbino and of "Régimes Politiques Comparées" in master Etudes Politiques at the University Paris II, publicist and author of numerous political essays.
Paola Maria Filippi, Professor of German literature and literary translation at the University of Bologna, Chief Scientific Officer of österreich Bibliothek/Centro LAI of Trento, Rovereto, among others, Member of the Accademia degli Agiati and Villa Vigoni, translator and essayist.
Mario Isnenghi, formerly head of the Department of historical studies and Professor of contemporary history at the University of Venice, author of numerous articles and essays in particular about the great war.
Daniele, historian of education, official and Director of the Piedmont region from 1980 to 1994, from 1994 to 2012 has directed the civic museums and the museum services in the city of Turin. Former President of ICOM Italy, he was a member of the High Council of cultural heritage and Adjunct Professor of Museum Studies at various universities. In its research activity has concerned in particular of oral history, history of deportation, museology, Alps and Waldensian history. On all of these topics has published more than 150 articles and books including essays, titles.
Paolo Rumiz, writer, journalist and sent into war zones, winner of numerous awards for his reportage.
Jury coordination is entrusted to Marguerite Detomas.
MARIO RIGONI STERN
Mario Rigoni Stern was one of the most significant writers of the postwar years and resulted in his writing not only the stories and the experiences of a generation who experienced the tragedy of World War II and of the retreat of Russia but also a unique worldview that taps into deeply rooted in humanity, in a close relationship with nature and to a positive vision of the human being. Among his best known works you remember story of Tönle, the Sergeant in the snow, the year of the victory, Le stagioni di Giacomo, Arboretum salvativo, Seasons.
Writes in the preface of the volume dedicated to Stern Eraldo Affinati in the meridians Mondadori: "Standing with him I learned a further distinction: one that separates the narrator of oral tradition from one who writes. The first, warm up in front of a group of people near the fire, sudden every time the story; the second is concerned with how we interpreted his words secured forever, has his ears up, like the hound. I recognize in the attention of Rigoni towards his interlocutor the very essence of literature: the disposition to Snipping each branch superfluous while returning the full meaning of what has been done and said".
The award is divided into two areas: the Veneto Region and the province of Trento. Just in Trentino, in Riva del Garda, the awards ceremony of the 2018 Edition.
Numerous bodies and associations which support the initiative: Veneto region, municipality of Asiago, province of Trento, the municipality of Riva del Garda, besides Cassa di Risparmio del Veneto, Intesa San Paolo, Riva del Garda trade fairs and conferences, the Ars Venandi and the Italian Federation of hunting, the Museo degli Usi e Costumi della Gente Trentina.
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