Giorgio Pressburger

Italian writer
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Giorgio Pressburger

Giorgio Pressburger (April 21, 1937 – October 5, 2017) was an Italian writer of novels and short stories.[1]

Born in Budapest, and saved by Giorgio Perlasca during the Second World War,[2] Pressburger settled in Italy in 1956, where he worked as a film and theatre director. He later became the Director of the Institute of Italian Culture in Hungary. His book The Law of White Spaces was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Award in 1992. His other works include the novel Teeth and Spies and the short story collection Snow and Guilt.[3]

Notes

  1. ^ Elhunyt Giorgio Pressburger magyar származású olasz író (in Hungarian)
  2. ^ Il dialogo di Monza, La testimonianza di Giorgio Pressburger, salvato da Perlasca, Daniela Zanuso, 27 gennaio 2017
  3. ^ Pressburger, Giorgio. The Law of White Spaces, Vintage, 1994.
Awards received by Giorgio Pressburger
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Recipients of the Viareggio Prize
1930s
  • Anselmo Bucci – Lorenzo Viani (1930)
  • Corrado Tumiati (1931)
  • Antonino Foschini (1932)
  • Achille Campanile (1933)
  • Raffaele Calzini (1934)
  • Mario Massa – Stefano Pirandello (1935)
  • Riccardo Bacchelli (1936)
  • Guelfo Civinini (1937)
  • Vittorio Giovanni Rossi – Enrico Pea (1938)
  • Arnaldo Frateili – Orio Vergani – Maria Bellonci (1939)
1940s
Silvio Micheli – Umberto Saba (1946) • Antonio Gramsci (1947) • Aldo Palazzeschi – Elsa Morante – Sibilla Aleramo (1948) • Arturo Carlo Jemolo – Renata Viganò (1949)
1950s
Francesco JovineCarlo Bernari (1950) • Domenico Rea (1951) • Tommaso Fiore (1952) • Carlo Emilio Gadda (1953) • Rocco Scotellaro (1954) • Vasco Pratolini (1955) • Carlo LeviGianna Manzini (1956) • Italo CalvinoPier Paolo Pasolini (1957) • Ernesto de Martino (1958) • Marino Moretti (1959)
1960s
Giovanni Battista Angioletti (1960) • Alberto Moravia (1961) • Giorgio Bassani (1962) • Antonio Delfini – Sergio Solmi (1963) • Giuseppe Berto (1964) • Goffredo Parise - Angelo Maria Ripellino (1965) • Ottiero OttieriAlfonso Gatto (1966) • Raffaello Brignetti (1967) • Libero Bigiaretti (1968) • Fulvio Tomizza (1969)
1970s
Nello Saito (1970) • Ugo Attardi (1971) • Romano Bilenchi (1972) • Achille Campanile (1973) • Clotilde Marghieri (1974) • Paolo Volponi (1975) • Mario TobinoDario BellezzaSergio Solmi (1976) • Davide Lajolo (1977) • Antonio Altomonte – Mario Luzi (1978) • Giorgio Manganelli (1979)
1980s
Stefano Terra (1980) • Enzo Siciliano (1981) • Primo Levi (1982) • Giuliana Morandini (1983) • Gina Lagorio – Bruno Gentili (1984) • Manlio Cancogni (1985) • Marisa Volpi (1986) • Mario Spinella (1987) • Rosetta Loy (1988) • Salvatore Mannuzzu (1989)
1990s
Luisa Adorno – Cesare Viviani – Maurizio Calvesi (1990) • Antonio Debenedetti (1991) • Luigi Malerba (1992) • Alessandro Baricco (1993) • Antonio Tabucchi (1994) • Maurizio Maggiani – Elio Pagliarani (1995) • Ermanno ReaAlda Merini (1996) • Claudio Piersanti – Franca Grisoni – Corrado Stajano (1997) • Giorgio Pressburger – Michele Sovente – Carlo Ginzburg (1998) • Ernesto Franco (1999)
2000s
Giorgio van Straten – Sandro Veronesi (2000) • Niccolò Ammaniti – Michele Ranchetti – Giorgio Pestelli (2001) • Fleur JaeggyJolanda Insana – Alfonso Berardinelli (2002) • Giuseppe Montesano (2003) • Edoardo Albinati – Andrea Tagliapietra – Livia Livi (2004) • Raffaele La CapriaAlberto ArbasinoMilo de Angelis (2005) • Gianni Celati – Giovanni Agosti – Giuseppe ConteRoberto Saviano (2006) • Filippo Tuena – Paolo Mauri – Silvia Bre – Simona Baldanzi – Paolo Colagrande – Paolo Fallai (2007) • Francesca Sanvitale – Miguel Gotor – Eugenio De Signoribus (2008) • Edith Bruck – Adriano Prosperi – Ennio Cavalli (2009)
2010s
Nicola Lagioia – Michele Emmer – Pierluigi Cappello (2010) • Alessandro Mari – Mario Lavagetto – Gian Mario Villalta (2011) • Nicola Gardini – Franco Lo Piparo – Antonella Anedda (2012) • Paolo Di Stefano – Giulio Guidorizzi – Enrico Testa (2013) • Francesco Pecoraro – Alessandro Fo – Luciano Mecacci (2014) • Antonio Scurati – Massimo Bucciantini – Franco Buffoni (2015) • Franco Cordelli – Bruno Pischedda – Sonia Gentili (2016) • Gianfranco Calligarich – Giuseppe Montesano – Stefano Carrai (2017) • Fabio Genovesi – Giuseppe Lupo (2018) • Emanuele Trevi – Renato Minore – Saverio Ricci (2019)
2020s
Paolo Di Paolo – Luciano Cecchinel – Giulio Ferroni (2020) • Edith Bruck - Flavio Santi - Walter Siti (2021) • Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli – Pietro CastellittoClaudio Damiani – Wlodek Goldkorn – Agnese Pini – Veronica Raimo – Silvia Ronchey (2022)
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Recipients of the Mondello Prize
Single Prize for Literature
Special Jury Prize
First narrative work
First poetic work
  • Giovanni Giuga (1978)
  • Gilberto Sacerdoti (1979)
Prize for foreign literature
Prize for foreign poetry
First work
  • Valerio Magrelli (1980)
  • Ferruccio Benzoni, Stefano Simoncelli, Walter Valeri, Laura Mancinelli (1981)
  • Jolanda Insana (1982)
  • Daniele Del Giudice (1983)
  • Aldo Busi (1984)
  • Elisabetta Rasy, Dario Villa (1985)
  • Marco Lodoli, Angelo Mainardi (1986)
  • Marco Ceriani, Giovanni Giudice (1987)
  • Edoardo Albinati, Silvana La Spina (1988)
  • Andrea Canobbio, Romana Petri (1990)
  • Anna Cascella (1991)
  • Marco Caporali, Nelida Milani (1992)
  • Silvana Grasso, Giulio Mozzi (1993)
  • Ernesto Franco (1994)
  • Roberto Deidier (1995)
  • Giuseppe Quatriglio, Tiziano Scarpa (1996)
  • Fabrizio Rondolino (1997)
  • Alba Donati (1998)
  • Paolo Febbraro (1999)
  • Evelina Santangelo (2000)
  • Giuseppe Lupo (2001)
  • Giovanni Bergamini, Simona Corso (2003)
  • Adriano Lo Monaco (2004)
  • Piercarlo Rizzi (2005)
  • Francesco Fontana (2006)
  • Paolo Fallai (2007)
  • Luca Giachi (2008)
  • Carlo Carabba (2009)
  • Gabriele Pedullà (2010)
Foreign author
Italian Author
"Five Continents" Award
"Palermo bridge for Europe" Award
Ignazio Buttitta Award
  • Nino De Vita (2003)
  • Attilio Lolini (2005)
  • Roberto Rossi Precerotti (2006)
  • Silvia Bre (2007)
Supermondello
Special award of the President
  • Ibrahim al-Koni (2009)
  • Emmanuele Maria Emanuele (2010)
  • Antonio Calabrò (2011)
Poetry prize
  • Antonio Riccardi (2010)
Translation Award
  • Evgenij Solonovic (2010)
Identity and dialectal literatures award
Essays Prize
  • Marzio Barbagli (2010)
Mondello for Multiculturality Award
Mondello Youths Award
"Targa Archimede", Premio all'Intelligenza d'Impresa
Prize for Literary Criticism
Award for best motivation
  • Simona Gioè (2012)
Special award for travel literature
  • Marina Valensise (2013)
Special Award 40 Years of Mondello
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