Antonio Caprarica receives the 40th 'Gianni Granzotto Award' at the 60th Premio Estense
Journalist Antonio Caprarica is awarded the prestigious 'Gianni Granzotto Prize' at the 60th Premio Estense
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Ferrara 30 May 2024. The jury presided over by the President of the Premio Estense Foundation, Gian Luigi Zaina, and composed of ten entrepreneurs from the territories of Bologna, Ferrara and Modena (Simone Amidei, Roberta Barbieri, Ivan Franco Bottoni, Marco Fantoni, Alessandra Guzzinati, Filippo Manuzzi, Stefano Reggiani, Giuseppe Rubbiani, Elena Salda and Monica Talmelli) awarded Antonio Caprarica the 40th "Gianni Granzotto Award. A style in information', with the favourable opinion of the Award's technical jury.
Antonio Caprarica, journalist and essayist, began his journalistic career writing first for Mondo nuovo, then for l'Unità. In 1989 he made his television debut at TG1 as a correspondent from Middle Eastern countries; he reported on the anti-Soviet uprisings in Afghanistan and the first Gulf War. He was head of the RAI Correspondence Bureau from Moscow (1993-97), from London (1997- 2006) and in 2006 he headed the RAI office in Paris. Back in Italy, between 2006 and 2009 he was director of Giornale Radio Rai and Rai Radio Uno. He was London correspondent for TG1 from 2010 to 2013 and has several publications to his credit, including essays, novels and travel stories.
The award, established in 1985 in memory of Gianni Granzotto, president of the Estense juries for twenty years, is given to those who have particularly distinguished themselves for their fairness, commitment and professionalism in the field of information. The roll of honour includes the following winners: Indro Montanelli, Enrico Mattei, Alberto Ronchey, Eugenio Scalfari, Egisto Corradi, Enzo Biagi, Arrigo Levi, Baldassarre Molossi, Geno Pampaloni, Ugo Stille, Enzo Bettiza, Piero Angela, Guglielmo Zucconi, Mario Cervi, Sergio Romano, Ferruccio De Bortoli, Tiziano Terzani, Gad Lerner, Barbara Spinelli, Biagio Agnes, Giovanni Minoli, Vittorio Feltri, Enrico Mentana, Beppe Severgnini, Joaquin Navarro-Valls, Bruno Vespa, Stefano Folli, Giulio Anselmi, Milena Gabanelli, Lilli Gruber, Antonio Polito, Giovanni Floris, Franco Di Mare, Lucia Annunziata, Massimo Franco, Andrea Purgatori, Giovanna Botteri and Federico Rampini.
Yesterday, the technical jury of the Premio Estense, presided over by Alberto Faustini, and composed of Giorgia Cardinaletti, Luigi Contu, Paolo Garimberti, Jas Gawronski, Cristiano Meoni, Agnese Pini, Venanzio Postiglione, Alessandra Sardoni, Fabio Tamburini and Luciano Tancredi, during the meeting held in the Hall of Honour of the Casa Romei Museum in Ferrara, selected the four finalist books from the 72 candidates, a record number in the history of the event, that will compete for the Golden Eagle 2024: Francesco Costa with 'Frontier. Perché sarà un nuovo secolo americano" (Mondadori), Luca Fregona with "Laggiù dove si muore. Il Vietnam dei giovani italiani con la Legione straniera' (Athesia-Tappeiner), Nello Scavo with 'Le mani sulla guardia costiera' (Chiarelettere) and Barbara Stefanelli with 'Love harder' (Solferino).
On Saturday 28 September, at the 'Claudio Abbado' Municipal Theatre in Ferrara, the final ceremony of the 2024 edition of the Premio Estense will take place with the announcement of the winner and the presentation of the Golden Eagle and Silver Colubrina to the winner of the Granzotto.
