Bressani Award
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The Francesco Giuseppe Bressani Literary Prize is a biennial award created by the Italian Cultural Centre Society of Vancouver in 1986. It was created to promote and honour Canadian writers of Italian descent. There are $1000 prizes for poetry (at least 20 poems), fiction (minimum 50 pages) and short fiction (minimum 8000 characters).[1] A fourth "special category" prize has been given out since 2006.
Works are eligible if published from January 1 of one year to March 31 of the next year. Submissions must be from Canadian citizens or permanent residents of 16 or older who have at least one parent or grandparent born in Italy, and can be in Italian, English or French.[2] The Prize is named after the Italian Jesuit missionary Francesco Giuseppe Bressani. The Prize was discontinued in 1995, but the Italian Cultural Centre appointed a new F.G. Bressani Committee in 2000 when it was reinstated.
Winners[]
1986[3]
- From the Frontier to the Little Italies: The Italians in Canada 1800-1941 by
1988
- Forty Days and Forty Nights (poetry in English) by John Terpstra
- In the Skin of a Lion (prose in English) by Michael Ondaatje
- Autostrada per la Luna (poetry in Italian) by
1990
- Ink from an Octopus (poetry) by
- The Lives of the Saints (prose) by Nino Ricci
1992
- Life in Another Language (poetry) by
- A Planet of Eccentrics (prose) by Ven Begamudre
1994
- Gardening in the Tropics (poetry) by Olive Senior
- The Book of Secrets (prose) by M.G. Vassanji
1996, 1998 Hiatus
2000
- Interference (poetry) by
- The City of Yes (novel) by Peter Oliva
- The Closer We Are to Dying (short fiction) by Joe Fiorito
2002
- Selected Poems (poetry) by Fulvio Caccia
- Winter in Montreal (novel) by Pietro Corsi
- Fabrizio's Passion (novel) by Antonio D'Alfonso
- Breaking the Mould (short fiction) by Penny Petrone
2004
- Ariadne's Thread (poetry) by
- Italian Shoes (novel) by Frank G. Paci
2006
- With English Subtitles (poetry) by Carmine Starnino
- Cristallo (novel) by
- Leftovers (short fiction) by
- Baseballissimo (creative non-fiction) by Dave Bidini
2008
- You Speak to Me in Trees (poetry) by
- Magnifico (novel) by
- Making Olives (short fiction) by
- The Clothesline (creative non-fiction) by
2010
- This Nothing's Place (poetry) by Pasquale Verdicchio
- Berlin (fiction) by Michael Mirolla
- Made Up of Arias (short fiction) by
- Finding Rosa (emigration from Italy) by Caterina Edwards
2012
- Dancing, with Mirrors (poetry) by George Amabile
- The Good Doctor (fiction) by Vince Agro
- Small Change (short fiction) by George Amabile
- Whoever Gives Us Bread (creative non-fiction) by Lynne Bowen
2014[4]
- The House on 14th Avenue (poetry) by Michael Mirolla
- Stations of the Heart (fiction) by
- Sweets (short fiction) by
- The Figures of Beauty (Italian theme) by David Macfarlane
2016
- Lessons in Relationships Dyads (short stories) by Michael Mirolla[5]
References[]
- ^ http://italianculturalcentre.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Bressani-2016-Rules-and-Regulations.pdf
- ^ Anna Foschi Ciampolini. "Francesco Giuseppe Bressani Literary Prize - The Canadian Encyclopedia". Thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 2016-11-23.
- ^ "2014 F.G. BRESSANI LITERARY PRIZE" (PDF). Italianculturalcentre.ca. Retrieved 2016-11-23.
- ^ "2014 F.G. BRESSANI LITERARY PRIZE WINNERS IN ALL CATEGORIES" (PDF). Italianculturalcentre.ca. Retrieved 2016-11-23.
- ^ "F. G. Bressani Literary Prize - 2018 Edition" (PDF). Italian Cultural Centre. p. 4. Retrieved November 14, 2019. Past winners are listed at the end of the document
- Canadian literary awards