Prize Mario Rigoni Stern for Multilingual literature of the Alps: finalists announced

The 10 finalist Mario Rigoni Stern for Multilingual literature of the Alps

The jury of the prize named after the great writer of Asiago has selected the shortlist of candidates for the victory of the 2017 Edition novels and essays. Around 10 works within which are found many themes and many faces of the Alps. Beside the traditional recognition award this year also sees the inauguration of a new section "the keeper of the Ark".

Are ten shortlisted entries works of the seventh edition of the premio Mario Rigoni Stern for Multilingual literature of the Alps and you will play in the victory of the 2017 Edition. As always the prize takes account of both the literary and non-fiction with a look at books from other languages in the representation of culturally and linguistically composite universe in the Alps.

The jury 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.

The jury will decide the winner of the 2017 Edition that will be announced publicly the next week while the prize will be officially handed over the award ceremony on June 17, 2017 in Venice.
The "Premio Mario Rigoni Stern" is set for 2017 in 10,000 (ten thousand) € which, in the opinion of the jury will be awarded to the best work of fiction, the best essay or split equally between the two sections that characterize it.

The Premio Mario Rigoni Stern was enriched this year a new section "the keeper of the Ark", an award to a person who stood out for his life and for activities in defence of the landscape, land and roots. The prize-giving ceremony will be on 17 June in Venice and will be repeated the next day in Asiago.

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 the second world war and the retreat of Russia but also a unique worldview that taps into deep roots of 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 Regione Veneto and the province of Trento. In Venice in Veneto will be the award ceremony of the 2017 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, Banca di Trento e Bolzano, 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.
 

Here is the list in alphabetical order of the 10 finalist Mario Rigoni Stern for Multilingual literature of the Alps

Alps rebels
Mountain stories, resistance and utopia
by Enrico Paula Cabuenas
Editori Laterza

Snow rock of lead
by Andrea Nicolussi Golo
Priuli Verlucca &

Around the honey
by Sandro Campani
Einaudi

The path of heroes
by Marco Albino Ferrari
Rizzoli

In the name of the bear
The decline and the return of the brown bear in the Alps. History, Chronicle, conflicts and challenges
by Matthew Zeni
The Plover Editions

The battle of the Matterhorn
by Peter Charles
Editori Laterza

The vertical war

Humans, animals and machines on the mountain 1915-1918
by Diego Lions
Einaudi

The Schenèr
by Matthew Melchiorre
Maddox

The eight mountains
by Paul Chakrabarty
Einaudi

Le temps suspendu/Il tempo sospeso
From Christmas to Epiphany. The cycle of twelve days in Valle d'Aosta and surroundings
Alexis Bétemps
Priuli Verlucca &