PIERO ANGELA – Honoris Causa 2006
Journalist and Science Populariser Piero Angela was born in 1928 in Turin, where he attended grammar school and studied piano at the same time. His passion was jazz and he became part of several formations, playing together with important successful names. He stopped his professional musical activities when he started working for Radio Televisione […]
ANDREA ZANZOTTO – Honoris Causa 2008
Poet Montale wrote of his poetry: “poetry that takes stock and strongly influences, acting as a drug on readers’ judging intellect”. Andrea Zanzotto was born at Pieve di Soligo (TV) on 10 October 1921. After his childhood and adolescence under the Fascist regime, to which his painter and decorator father was opposed right […]
RICHARD SAMSON ODINGO – Honoris Causa 2009
Climatologist “When I retire I will be proud to have taken part in the activities of international scientific organisations, in spite of all the difficulties I faced. Although I am materially poor, I consider myself a rich man intellectually because as a result of all my work I have become an authority on the environment […]
GIULIA MARIA MOZZONI CRESPI – Honoris Causa 2012
Founder and Honorary President of Fondo per l’Ambiente Italiano (FAI) “As a child I loved walking in Zelata, a hamlet of Bereguardo, where my family grew rice on an estate of 350 hectares, called le Cascine Orsine. In spring I loved listening to the frogs as I strolled through the woods. And every year […]
SPIRO DALLA PORTA XYDIAS E ARMANDO ASTE – Honoris Causa 2014
SPIRO DALLA PORTA XYDIAS Climber, theatre director, writer and President of the Italian Mountain Writers “Nowadays I climb mountains with my pen. No, I have never abandoned the mountains” Spiro Dalla Porta Xydias was born at Lausanne in 1917, but moved in his childhood to Trieste, where he graduated in Political Sciences: he taught French […]
NIVES MEROI – Honoris Causa 2019
Climber and writer “La signora degli Ottomila” “I’m a climber, and a woman. I take that distinction with me as a flag to fly on the high peaks.” Nives Meroi, born in 1961, was originally from Bergamo but has adopted Friuli as her home. She began climbing at 15 and at 17 had already started […]
DON LUIGI CIOTTI – Honoris Causa 2018
Founder and President of the “Libera” Association Luigi Ciotti was born in 1945 at Pieve di Cadore (Belluno) and in 1950 emigrated with his family to Turin. In 1965 he formed ‘Gruppo Abele’, a group of young people that initially worked in juvenile detention centres, and then set up the first reformatory for adolescents as […]
THE PRIZE COMMEMORATES RICHARD SAMSON ODINGO
Richard Samson Odingo passed away on Saturday 12 June 2021 in Nairobi, Kenya. Doyen of African climate studies and an enlightened man, he had a very special relationship with the Gambrinus Giuseppe Mazzotti Literary Prize. After graduating from London and Liverpool Universities, he returned to his country and undertook several studies on safeguarding the African […]
165 WORKS COMPETING FOR THE 2021 XXXIX EDITION OF OUR PRIZE
10 May was the closing date for taking part with a literary work in the 2021 XXXIX Edition of the Gambrinus Giuseppe Mazzotti Literary Prize. The huge participation in this year’s edition, 165 volumes submitted by 73 publishers, is an important sign that things are getting back to normal after the pandemic, which did not […]
IL PREMIO RICORDA RICHARD SAMSON ODINGO
È mancato sabato 12 giugno 2021 a Nairobi (Kenya), sua città natale, Richard Samson Odingo, decano degli studi di climatologia africani e uomo illuminato che ha avuto con il Premio Gambrinus Giuseppe Mazzotti un rapporto molto speciale. Dopo le lauree a Londra e Liverpool, torna nel suo paese e intraprende numerosi studi sulla salvaguardia del […]
