Andrea Canobbio

Italian writer and translator

Andrea Canobbio (born Turin, 1962) is an Italian writer and translator. A graduate of the University of Turin, he made his literary debut in 1986. He has written several books, but is best known abroad for his novel Tre anni luce. An English translation by Anne Milano Appel under the title Three Light-Years was widely praised upon publication. He has received a number of literary prizes, among them the Premio Mondello, the Premio Grinzane Cavour and the Premio Brancati. As a literary translator, Canobbio has translated works by Rousseau and Jean Echenoz from French to Italian.^[1]

References

^ Boyd Tonkin, "Novelist Andrea Canobbio: Private angst, public terror", The Independent, 25 January 2008.

Recipients of the Mondello Prize

Single Prize for Literature

Bartolo Cattafi (1975)
Achille Campanile (1976)
Günter Grass (1977)

Special Jury Prize

Denise McSmith (1975)
Stefano D'Arrigo (1977)
Yury Trifonov (1978)
Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (1979)
Pietro Consagra (1980)
Ignazio Buttitta, Angelo Maria e Ela Ripellino (1983)
Leonardo Sciascia (1985)
Wang Meng (1987)
Mikhail Gorbachev (1988)
Peter Carey, José Donoso, Northrop Frye, Jorge Semprún, Wole Soyinka, Lu Tongliu (1990)
Fernanda Pivano (1992)
Associazione Scrittori Cinesi (1993)
Dong Baoucum, Fan Boaci, Wang Huanbao, Shi Peide, Chen Yuanbin (1995)
Xu Huainzhong, Xiao Xue, Yu Yougqnan, Qin Weinjung (1996)
Khushwant Singh (1997)
Javier Marías (1998)
Francesco Burdin (2001)
Luciano Erba (2002)
Isabella Quarantotti De Filippo (2003)
Marina Rullo (2006)
Andrea Ceccherini (2007)
Enrique Vila-Matas (2009)
Francesco Forgione (2010)

First narrative work

Carmelo Samonà (1978)
Fausta Garavini (1979)

First poetic work

Giovanni Giuga (1978)
Gilberto Sacerdoti (1979)

Prize for foreign literature

Prize for foreign poetry

Jannis Ritsos (1978)
Joseph Brodsky (1979)
Juan Gelman (1980)
Gyula Illyés (1981)

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

Alain Robbe-Grillet (1982) • Thomas Bernhard (1983) • Adolfo Bioy Casares (1984) • Bernard Malamud (1985) • Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1986) • Doris Lessing (1987) • V. S. Naipaul (1988) • Octavio Paz (1989) • Christa Wolf (1990) • Kurt Vonnegut (1991) • Bohumil Hrabal (1992) • Seamus Heaney (1993) • J. M. Coetzee (1994) • Vladimir Voinovich (1995) • David Grossman (1996) • Philippe Jaccottet (1998) • Don DeLillo (1999) • Aleksandar Tišma (2000) • Nuruddin Farah (2001) • Per Olov Enquist (2002) • Adunis (2003) • Les Murray (2004) • Magda Szabó (2005) • Uwe Timm (2006) • Bapsi Sidhwa (2007) • Viktor Yerofeyev (2009) • Edmund White (2010) • Javier Cercas (2011) • Elizabeth Strout (2012) • Péter Esterházy (2013) • Joe R. Lansdale (2014) • Emmanuel Carrère (2015) • Marilynne Robinson (2016) • Cees Nooteboom (2017)

Italian Author

Alberto Moravia (1982)
Vittorio Sereni alla memoria (1983)
Italo Calvino (1984)
Mario Luzi (1985)
Paolo Volponi (1986)
Luigi Malerba (1987)
Oreste del Buono (1988)
Giovanni Macchia (1989)
Gianni Celati, Emilio Villa (1990)
Andrea Zanzotto (1991)
Ottiero Ottieri (1992)
Attilio Bertolucci (1993)
Luigi Meneghello (1994)
Fernando Bandini, Michele Perriera (1995)
Nico Orengo (1996)
Giuseppe Bonaviri, Giovanni Raboni (1997)
Carlo Ginzburg (1998)
Alessandro Parronchi (1999)
Elio Bartolini (2000)
Roberto Alajmo (2001)
Andrea Camilleri (2002)
Andrea Carraro, Antonio Franchini, Giorgio Pressburger (2003)
Maurizio Bettini, Giorgio Montefoschi, Nelo Risi (2004)
pr. Raffaele Nigro, sec. Maurizio Cucchi, ter. Giuseppe Conte (2005)
pr. Paolo Di Stefano, sec. Giulio Angioni (2006)
pr. Mario Fortunato, sec. Toni Maraini, ter. Andrea Di Consoli (2007)
pr. Andrea Bajani, sec. Antonio Scurati, ter. Flavio Soriga (2008)
pr. Mario Desiati, sec. Osvaldo Guerrieri, ter. Gregorio Scalise (2009)
pr. Lorenzo Pavolini, sec. Roberto Cazzola, ter. (2010)
pr. Eugenio Baroncelli, sec. Milo De Angelis, ter. Igiaba Scego (2011)
pr. Edoardo Albinati, sec. Paolo Di Paolo, ter. Davide Orecchio (2012)
pr. Andrea Canobbio, sec. Valerio Magrelli, ter. Walter Siti (2013)
pr. Irene Chias, sec. Giorgio Falco, ter. Francesco Pecoraro (2014)
pr. Nicola Lagioia, sec. Letizia Muratori, ter. Marco Missiroli (2015)
pr. Marcello Fois, sec. Emanuele Tonon, ter. Romana Petri (2016)
pr. Stefano Massini, sec. Alessandro Zaccuri, ter. Alessandra Sarchi (2017)