Giorgio Pressburger

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Giorgio Pressburger (April 21, 1937 – October 5, 2017) was an Italian writer of novels and short stories.^[1]

Born in Budapest, and saved by Giorgio Perlasca during the Second World War,^[2] Pressburger settled in Italy in 1956, where he worked as a film and theatre director. He later became the Director of the Institute of Italian Culture in Hungary. His book The Law of White Spaces was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Award in 1992. His other works include the novel Teeth and Spies and the short story collection Snow and Guilt.^[3]

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^ Elhunyt Giorgio Pressburger magyar származású olasz író (in Hungarian)
^ Il dialogo di Monza, La testimonianza di Giorgio Pressburger, salvato da Perlasca, Daniela Zanuso, 27 gennaio 2017
^ Pressburger, Giorgio. The Law of White Spaces, Vintage, 1994.

Awards received by Giorgio Pressburger

v t e Recipients of the Viareggio Prize
1930s	Anselmo Bucci – Lorenzo Viani (1930) Corrado Tumiati (1931) Antonino Foschini (1932) Achille Campanile (1933) Raffaele Calzini (1934) Mario Massa – Stefano Pirandello (1935) Riccardo Bacchelli (1936) Guelfo Civinini (1937) Vittorio Giovanni Rossi – Enrico Pea (1938) Arnaldo Frateili – Orio Vergani – Maria Bellonci (1939)
1940s	Silvio Micheli – Umberto Saba (1946) • Antonio Gramsci (1947) • Aldo Palazzeschi – Elsa Morante – Sibilla Aleramo (1948) • Arturo Carlo Jemolo – Renata Viganò (1949)
1950s	Francesco Jovine – Carlo Bernari (1950) • Domenico Rea (1951) • Tommaso Fiore (1952) • Carlo Emilio Gadda (1953) • Rocco Scotellaro (1954) • Vasco Pratolini (1955) • Carlo Levi – Gianna Manzini (1956) • Italo Calvino – Pier Paolo Pasolini (1957) • Ernesto de Martino (1958) • Marino Moretti (1959)
1960s	Giovanni Battista Angioletti (1960) • Alberto Moravia (1961) • Giorgio Bassani (1962) • Antonio Delfini – Sergio Solmi (1963) • Giuseppe Berto (1964) • Goffredo Parise - Angelo Maria Ripellino (1965) • Ottiero Ottieri – Alfonso Gatto (1966) • Raffaello Brignetti (1967) • Libero Bigiaretti (1968) • Fulvio Tomizza (1969)
1970s	Nello Saito (1970) • Ugo Attardi (1971) • Romano Bilenchi (1972) • Achille Campanile (1973) • Clotilde Marghieri (1974) • Paolo Volponi (1975) • Mario Tobino – Dario Bellezza – Sergio Solmi (1976) • Davide Lajolo (1977) • Antonio Altomonte – Mario Luzi (1978) • Giorgio Manganelli (1979)
1980s	Stefano Terra (1980) • Enzo Siciliano (1981) • Primo Levi (1982) • Giuliana Morandini (1983) • Gina Lagorio – Bruno Gentili (1984) • Manlio Cancogni (1985) • Marisa Volpi (1986) • Mario Spinella (1987) • Rosetta Loy (1988) • Salvatore Mannuzzu (1989)
1990s	Luisa Adorno – Cesare Viviani – Maurizio Calvesi (1990) • Antonio Debenedetti (1991) • Luigi Malerba (1992) • Alessandro Baricco (1993) • Antonio Tabucchi (1994) • Maurizio Maggiani – Elio Pagliarani (1995) • Ermanno Rea – Alda Merini (1996) • Claudio Piersanti – Franca Grisoni – Corrado Stajano (1997) • Giorgio Pressburger – Michele Sovente – Carlo Ginzburg (1998) • Ernesto Franco (1999)
2000s	Giorgio van Straten – Sandro Veronesi (2000) • Niccolò Ammaniti – Michele Ranchetti – Giorgio Pestelli (2001) • Fleur Jaeggy – Jolanda Insana – Alfonso Berardinelli (2002) • Giuseppe Montesano (2003) • Edoardo Albinati – Andrea Tagliapietra – Livia Livi (2004) • Raffaele La Capria – Alberto Arbasino – Milo de Angelis (2005) • Gianni Celati – Giovanni Agosti – Giuseppe Conte – Roberto Saviano (2006) • Filippo Tuena – Paolo Mauri – Silvia Bre – Simona Baldanzi – Paolo Colagrande – Paolo Fallai (2007) • Francesca Sanvitale – Miguel Gotor – Eugenio De Signoribus (2008) • Edith Bruck – Adriano Prosperi – Ennio Cavalli (2009)
2010s	Nicola Lagioia – Michele Emmer – Pierluigi Cappello (2010) • Alessandro Mari – Mario Lavagetto – Gian Mario Villalta (2011) • Nicola Gardini – Franco Lo Piparo – Antonella Anedda (2012) • Paolo Di Stefano – Giulio Guidorizzi – Enrico Testa (2013) • Francesco Pecoraro – Alessandro Fo – Luciano Mecacci (2014) • Antonio Scurati – Massimo Bucciantini – Franco Buffoni (2015) • Franco Cordelli – Bruno Pischedda – Sonia Gentili (2016) • Gianfranco Calligarich – Giuseppe Montesano – Stefano Carrai (2017) • Fabio Genovesi – Giuseppe Lupo (2018) • Emanuele Trevi – Renato Minore – Saverio Ricci (2019)
2020s	Paolo Di Paolo – Luciano Cecchinel – Giulio Ferroni (2020) • Edith Bruck - Flavio Santi - Walter Siti (2021) • Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli – Pietro Castellitto – Claudio Damiani – Wlodek Goldkorn – Agnese Pini – Veronica Raimo – Silvia Ronchey (2022)

v t e 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	Milan Kundera (1978) N. Scott Momaday (1979) Juan Carlos Onetti (1980) Tadeusz Konwicki (1981)
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)
"Five Continents" Award	Kōbō Abe, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Germaine Greer, Wilson Harris, José Saramago (1992) Kenzaburō Ōe (1993) Stephen Spender (1994) Thomas Keneally, Alberto Arbasino (1996) Margaret Atwood, André Brink, David Malouf, Romesh Gunesekera, Christoph Ransmayr (1997)
"Palermo bridge for Europe" Award	Dacia Maraini (1999) Alberto Arbasino (2000)
Ignazio Buttitta Award	Nino De Vita (2003) Attilio Lolini (2005) Roberto Rossi Precerotti (2006) Silvia Bre (2007)
Supermondello	Tiziano Scarpa (2009) Michela Murgia (2010) Eugenio Baroncelli (2011) Davide Orecchio (2012) Valerio Magrelli (2013) Giorgio Falco (2014) Marco Missiroli (2015) Romana Petri (2016) Stefano Massini (2017)
Special award of the President	Ibrahim al-Koni (2009) Emmanuele Maria Emanuele (2010) Antonio Calabrò (2011)
Poetry prize	Antonio Riccardi (2010)
Translation Award	Evgenij Solonovic (2010)
Identity and dialectal literatures award	Gialuigi Beccaria e Marco Paolini (2010)
Essays Prize	Marzio Barbagli (2010)
Mondello for Multiculturality Award	Kim Thúy (2011)
Mondello Youths Award	Claudia Durastanti (2011) Edoardo Albinati (2012) Alessandro Zaccuri (2017)
"Targa Archimede", Premio all'Intelligenza d'Impresa	Enzo Sellerio (2011)
Prize for Literary Criticism	Salvatore Silvano Nigro (2012) Maurizio Bettini (2013) Enrico Testa (2014) Ermanno Cavazzoni (2015) Serena Vitale (2016) Antonio Prete (2017)
Award for best motivation	Simona Gioè (2012)
Special award for travel literature	Marina Valensise (2013)
Special Award 40 Years of Mondello	Gipi (2014)

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