Bressani Award

The Francesco Giuseppe Bressani Literary Prize is a biennial award created by the Italian Cultural Centre Society of Vancouver in 1986. It was created to promote and honour Canadian writers of Italian descent. There are $1000 prizes for poetry (at least 20 poems), fiction (minimum 50 pages) and short fiction (minimum 8000 characters).[1] A fourth "special category" prize has been given out since 2006.

Works are eligible if published from January 1 of one year to March 31 of the next year. Submissions must be from Canadian citizens or permanent residents of 16 or older who have at least one parent or grandparent born in Italy, and can be in Italian, English or French.[2] The Prize is named after the Italian Jesuit missionary Francesco Giuseppe Bressani. The Prize was discontinued in 1995, but the Italian Cultural Centre appointed a new F.G. Bressani Committee in 2000 when it was reinstated.

Winners

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1986

  • From the Frontier to the Little Italies: The Italians in Canada 1800-1941 by Robert F. Harney'[3]

1988

1990

1992

1994

1996, 1998 Hiatus

2000

2002

2004

2006

2008

2010

2012

2014[4]

2016

References

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  1. ^ "Bressani Awards 2016. Rules and Regulations" (PDF). italianculturalcentre.ca. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
  2. ^ Anna Foschi Ciampolini. "Francesco Giuseppe Bressani Literary Prize - The Canadian Encyclopedia". Thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
  3. ^ "2014 F.G. BRESSANI LITERARY PRIZE" (PDF). Italianculturalcentre.ca. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
  4. ^ "2014 F.G. BRESSANI LITERARY PRIZE WINNERS IN ALL CATEGORIES" (PDF). Italianculturalcentre.ca. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
  5. ^ "F. G. Bressani Literary Prize - 2018 Edition" (PDF). Italian Cultural Centre. p. 4. Retrieved 14 November 2019. Past winners are listed at the end of the document