PRIZES AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
’SUPER PRIZE’ – LA VOCE DEI LETTORI
In 2005 the XXIII Edition set up an overall ‘Super Prize’ to be awarded at the end of the prize-giving ceremony to the book a panel of 40 readers most enjoyed reading from those selected by the jury as winners in the different categories. Every year the panel is selected by the Association’s Management Committee and comprises forty members representing different age groups, interests and occupations.
THE JURY’S SPECIAL PRIZE
The Prize jury has the faculty to award a special prize at every edition to works that are not among the three winners but are notable for their original content and cultural value.
’HONORIS CAUSA’
The Association’s Management Committee assigns the ‘Honoris Causa’ prize to the person and works of an important figure who has gained distinction in the fields to which the Prize is dedicated.
Recipients of this important acknowledgement are: Sabatino Moscati, archaeologist and member of the Lincean Academy (1986); Mario Pavan, entomologist and ecologist (1987); Nuto Revelli, writer (1988); Gianni Berengo Gardin, photographer (1989); Renato Bazzoni, architect and Secretary General of the Italian Fund for the Environment (F.A.I.) (1990); Giovan Battista Pellegrini, linguist (1991); Sandro Ruffo, entomologist and Director of the Verona Natural History Museum (1992); Fosco Maraini, orientalist, ethnologist, anthropologist, explorer and mountaineer (1998); the Worldwatch Institute, chaired by Lester Brown (1999); Walter Bonatti, mountaineer, explorer and writer (2001); Mario Rigoni Stern, writer (2002); the Fanzolo Citizens’ Committee (2004); Piero Angela, journalist, scientific populariser and writer (2006); Andrea Zanzotto, poet (2008); Richard Samson Odingo, geologist and climatologist (2009); Giulia Maria Mozzoni Crespi, founder of the Italian Fund for the Environment (F.A.I.) (2012); Armando Aste and Spiro Dalla Porta Xydias, mountaineers (2014); Kuki Gallmann, writer and environmentalist (2017); Don Luigi Ciotti, activist (2018) and Nives Meroi, climber and writer (2019).
THE ’GOLDEN CRAYFISH’ PRIZE
Since the XII edition of 1994, Adriano Zanotto, chef of Ristorante Parco Gambrinus, has occasionally assigned a ‘Golden Crayfish’ Award during the prize-giving ceremony. This acknowledges people who have distinguished themselves in the field of wine and food, once again involving Giuseppe Mazzotti’s heritage in promoting cuisine as an expression of the territory’s culture.
The award has been assigned to: Luigi Veronelli, gastronome, and Giovanni Caniato, archivist and historian (1994); Luis Sepùlveda, writer (1995); Vincenzo Buonassisi, journalist and gastronome (1996); Massimo Alberini, Food and Wine academic (1998); Giovanni Nuvoletti, actor and gastronome (1999); Giuseppe Dell’Osso, President of the Italian Academy of Cuisine (2003); Carlo Petrini, founder and president of the Slow Food Movement (2015).