“The award payable to my ancestor was born four years ago as a bet – states Francesco De Sanctis, President of the Foundation - aims to fill a gap of our literary society. Today I can say that the bet is won: the essays that the jury awarded, yesterday and today, write a new chapter in the direction of the search for truth and beauty, both face to Francesco De Sanctis.”
The De Sanctis prize for non-fiction will the Charles Ossola by Introduction to the Divine Comedy, which tells us of the poets Dante (Pound, Beckett, Borges…), not what the critics. It’ a free essay, sophisticated, curiously “simple”: the best access the Comedy for the twenty-first-century reader. "
The for the short Essay Prize è stato assegnato a Elisabetta Rasy for of melancholy figures, published by Skira, where the author talking about art and artists (by Cima da Conegliano to Hopper) passes with great naturalness and sharpness from the plane of the critical response to that of philosophical meditation.
The Frecciarossa Prize for non-fiction travel he went to Ermanno Rea with 1960. I reporter (Feltrinelli), an unusual and fascinating book on the double journey of a Child of the Century disappointed and pilgrim from Berlin to Asia and from the written word to the photographic image.
The jury also decided to make every year a special message "A book unobtainable", which purports to be a suggestion to the editors. The book chosen is Belief and disbelief of Nicola Chiaromonte (’71, Bompiani; '93 Il Mulino) a major Italian essayists of the twentieth century, close to themes in Camus, Hannah Arendt e Isaiah Berlin: Belief and disbelief it is the only book of moral and political and literary writings Chiaromonte published in Life.
The Prix De Sanctis jury consists of Giorgio Ficara (president), Alfonso Berardinelli, Alain Elkann, Nadia Fusini, Raffaele La Capria, Giacomo Marramao, Jacqueline Risset, Claudio Strinati.
The Prix De Sanctis is organized and promoted by the Fondazione De Sanctis and realized in collaboration with the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Ministry of Education University’ and Research, City of Rome, Italian State Railways, Italian post, Foundation with the South and RCS Foundation.
prizegiving
Rome, Villa Doria Pamphili, 10 October 2012 hours 17.00
The presence of the Minister of Education, Francesco Profumo
Madrina dell'evento, Anna Bonaiuto
The ceremony will be followed by a musical performance by the National Academy of Santa Cecilia
Johann Sebastian Bach, Chaconne for solo violin (from Partita in D minor. BWV 1004)
David Romano, violino
(The awards ceremony is by invitation)
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