Dacia Maraini receiving "Cilento Poetry Prize 2021 from the Mayor of Salento Gabriele De Marco"

Cilento Poetry Prize (Italian: Premio Cilento Poesia) is an Italian literary prize founded in 2017^[1][2] by the poet, writer and literary critic Menotti Lerro and awarded annually, in the month of August, in Salento Cilento—"The Poetry Village".^[3]

Criteria for nomination

The prize is awarded to "a poet who, during the preceding year, has published a collection of poems already considered relevant to be part of the history of literature, or the same prize is conferred to a distinguished poet for the importance of his/her career".^[4]

Prizes (some cases equal-first) have been awarded as follows

• 2017 – Davide Rondoni^[5]
• 2018 – Milo de Angelis^[6]
• 2019 – Franco Loi and Roberto Carifi (special winter edition at Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera)^[7]
• 2019 – Giampiero Neri and Vivian Lamarque^[8]
• 2020 – Elio Pecora^[9]
• 2021 – Dacia Maraini^[10]
• 2022 – Valerio Magrelli^[11] and Tiziano Rossi^[12][13]
• 2023 – Maurizio Cucchi and Najwan Darwish^[14][15]

Cilento Prizes for criticism have been awarded as follows

• 2018 – Francesco D'Episcopo^[16]
• 2019 – Umberto Curi^[8]
• 2020 – Remo Bodei (posthumous)^[17]

Cilento Prizes for art have been awarded as follows

• 2023 – Omar Galliani and Antonello Pelliccia^[15][14]

Cilento Prizes for music have been awarded as follows

• 2023 – Franco Mussida and Bernardo Lanzetti^[14][15]

Cilento Prizes for narrative have been awarded as follows

• 2023 – Diego De Silva and Maria Rita Parsi^[15][14]

Institutional sponsorship

The Cilento Poetry Prize is officially supported by: Ministero della Cultura, Regione Campania, Provincia di Salerno, Comune di Salerno, Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio Salerno e Avellino, Parco Nazionale del Cilento, Vallo di Diano e Alburni, Università degli Studi di Salerno - DISPS.^[18]

• In 2022 the Prize has been financed by the Italian Ministry of Culture for €140,500^[19] to let it become International.^[20][21]

Bibliography

• Norma De Martino, Premio Cilento Poesia. 1a Edizione. Cronistoria della serata del 10 agosto 2017, p. 301, in "Annali Storici di Principato Citra", A. 15, n. 2.2 (Centro di Promozione Culturale per il Cilento: 2017)^[22]
• In Menotti Lerro (edited by) La Scuola Empatica: Movimento letterario-artistico-filosofico e culturale sorto in Italia nel 2020 (Ladolfi: 2020), pp. 65–104.
• Nicola Nicoletti, "Salento capitale della poesia . A San Lorenzo versi d'autore", 5 agosto 2022, "La Città di Salerno", p. 16.
• Davide Speranza, "Cilento Poesia, antologia sotto il firmamento", Il Mattino, p. 28 (9 August 2022).
• "Torna Cilento Poesia di Menotti Lerro: Magrelli-Rossi vincono la VII edizione", Affari Italiani (9 August 2022) online edition.
• Davide Speranza, "Empatismo, la Soprintendenza adotta il Premio Cilento Poesia", Il Mattino, (17 March 2023).

References

External links

• Official website