Premio Mario Rigoni star
The Premio Mario Rigoni Stern per la letteratura multilingua delle Alpi, known for short as the Premio Mario Rigoni Stern , is an Italian literary prize awarded annually since 2011 . It is named after the Italian writer Mario Rigoni Stern who died in 2008 .
The prize is awarded by the “Ars Venandi” association in Asiago together with the Autonomous Province of Trento , the Veneto region and the municipalities of Asiago and Riva del Garda . The award will be given to literary stories and non-fiction works on topics from traditional Alpine cultural and social history.
The prize is open to authors from all languages represented in the Alpine region. It is associated with prize money of 5,000 euros.
Award winners
| year | author | title | language |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Alexis Betemps | La vita negli alpeggi valdostani nella prima metà del Novecento | French |
| 2012 | Alojz Rebula | Nocturne sull'Isonzo | Slovenian |
| 2013 | Dionigi Albera | Au fil des générations | French |
| 2014 | Mauro Corona | La voce degli uomini freddi | Italian |
| 2015 | Antonio De Rossi | La Costruzione delle Alpi, immagini e scenari del pittoresco alpino (1773–1914) | Italian |
| 2016 | Antonio Ballerini | Cristalli di memoria | Italian |
| 2017 | Diego Leoni | La guerra verticale | Italian |
| 2017 | Matteo Melchiorre | La via di Schenèr | Italian |
| 2018 | Marco Paolini and Gianfranco Bettin | The Adventure of Numero Primo | Italian |
| 2019 | Marco Balzano | Resto qui | Italian |