1997

After the success obtained with Sostiene Pereira, which was awarded the European Literary Prize in 1997, Antonio Tabucchi had a new novel published, La testa perduta di Damasceno Monteiro.

Feltrinelli was to the fore in Italian fiction where Claudio Piersanti (left) with Luisa e il silenzio won both the Viareggio-Rèpaci Prize and the Vittorini Prize while Paolo di Stefano with Azzurro troppo azzurro got the Grinzane-Cavour Prize and Francesco Piccolo (right) who had successfully published Storie di primogeniti e figli unici (1996) won two prizes, namely the Berto Prize and the Chiara Prize.



After fourteen works of fiction published by Feltrinelli, Doris Lessing produced the first volume of her autobiography, Sotto la pelle. The austrian writer Christopher Ransmayr was awarded the Mondello Prize for Il morbo Kitahara, set in an apocalyptic scene of an unsettled Europe. Two essays published in Campi del Sapere are Dell'incertezza by Salvatore Veca and Critica della ragione informatica by Tomás Maldonado dealing with the social, economic and political problems that have emerged with the advent of telecommunication and computer networks. Jerome Bruner, Professor of Psychology at New York University, is the author of La cultura dell'educazione, a proposal of cultural psychology. In Interzone, Mutazioni by Philip K. Dick is a collection of unpublished philosophical, autobiographic and literary papers.

There was the celebration of the fortieth anniversary of the publication of Il dottor Zivago by Boris Pasternak, the top best-seller in contemporary publishing, while for Pepe Carvalho, the much-loved creation of Montalbán (right) it was the 25^th.

In Universale Economica, Arnulf Zitelmann's biography of Martin Luther King, Non me piegherete, was published.

A new Feltrinelli bookshop was opened in Brescia.

The Feltrinelli Publishing House, one of the first publishers to do so, inaugurated a web site.