“The constant growth of Nosside Project (that, from 2005 has been part of the UNESCO World Poetry Directory) firstly is the result of an almost utopian cultural strategy. This strategy is based on two identities: multilinguism (open to all the languages of the world, judged equally, regardless of type, be they national, original, or minority languages); and multimedia (access given to the poetic imagination in its diverse forms of expression, be they written, video or musical forms).
      It is also the result of transparent judging methods (the Jury doesn’t see the names of contestants, but only assigned numbers and letters)  that guarantee equal opportunities to all the poets without distinction in countries, continents, languages or race.
     Finally, these results were made possible by the intensive work of a staff that have made this project their life. The “soul” of this laboratory is the Center of Studies “Bosio” (that, from 2005 has been one of three Italian members of the UNESCO Global Alliance for Cultural Diversities). The laboratory is also comprised of overall winners from past editions of the contest (called Nosside Ambassadors) and the members of International Jury.
    Everyone works to diffuse throughout the world an intelligent, serious, creative and rich image of Reggio Calabria’s great attributes, the city - seat of project elaboration and promotion.
   It is a global Project (“made in Calabria”) also because of its choice of symbols. In fact, it is dedicated to the female poet Nosside of Locri from III century B.C; its logo is a work by futurist master Umberto Boccioni from Reggio Calabria inspired by the classical Greek world, and is decorated by a creation of the goldsmith Gerardo Sacco from Crotone, given to the overall winner”.
   
   With these words, Pasquale Amato, project founder and president of the Center of Studies “Bosio” of Reggio Calabria concluded the presentation of the results of XXII International Nosside Prize, the only global poetry contest in existence for unpublished works, showing data that speaks for itself (see www.nosside.com).
Participants at Nosside 2006 included male and female poets from 24 countries representing 4 continents (12 from Europe, 10 from the Americas, 1 from Africa and 1 from Oceania), presenting works in 19 languages from Reggian dialect to Amazon kari’na language. The majority of works were in Italian followed by Spanish and Portuguese.
   “We are exalted by these results – noted President Amato – this data highlights the multilinguism and the equal treatment of both popular and lesser-known languages, and this is our primary calling.
   This is confirmed by the 1995 and 2006 editions of the contest: in 1995, 97.3% of the participants were Italian and only 2.7% from other countries; in 2006, 56.43%-from Italy and 43.57% from other countries”.
   As regards the multimedia field, “for the first time - added Amato- participants from other countries presented multimedia works: we had a song from Cuba, video-clips from Basil, Romania and Portugal. This rice up in participation to multimedia field is also due to a partnership agreement stipulated with CinemAvvenire Association that guarantees the participation of Nosside-video winners to the prestigious Rome Film Festival and to Cinematographic Mostra of Venice. It was once again made possible thanks to the creativity of our permanent laboratory team that works hard to increase the participation to multimedia field in 2007.
   The task of the International Jury (President Giuseppe Amoroso, members Mayerín Bello Valdéz, Giuseppe Cardello, Clotilde Grisolia, Rosamaria Malafarina, Angelo Rizzi e Antonio Rossi; CinemAvvenire representatives: Francesco Del Grosso e Guido Massimo Calanca; Secretary Vincenzina Laganà, as well as Segretary General of Bosio) wasn’t easy in such articulated background. A multicultural and multilingual pool of Bosio assisted the Jury: (Tiziana Barillà, Mariela Johnson, Stefano Morabito, Paolo Moscato, Cibele Paim Batista, Stefania Radici and Tatiana Vavachin) in collaboration  with Graciela Moren, Valeria Pitrone, Monica Rusu, Snezana Novakovic e Veronica Enna..   
   
   Three poets from Europe and two from Latin America are the WINNERS:Ana Lourdes de Hériz Ramón from Spain is the overall winner with the poetry “Enero” (January); other 4 winners are: Milena Moskov (Montenegro) with “Il ballo autunnale”;Isabel Cristina Orive Ponte (Venezuela) with the poetry “Africa-America”; Pino Amaddeo (Italy) supported by director Salvatore Canale with the video poetry “Cammino”; Miguel Angel Ribó Gutiérrez  (Cuba) helped by composer Iván Domínguez de la Hoz with the song “Principes del silencio” (Princes of Silence).
   Three poets from Europe and two from Latin America got special mention.
   They are:  Benito Galilea from Italy  with the poetry “Ai margini del cielo”, Karen Olivo Santana from Dominican Republic with the poetry “Nací”; Kathya Rodríguez Katfresita from Panama with the poetry “Gitana” (Gipsy); Mimmo Martino from Italy with the song in Reggian dialect “Nenti” (Nothing); Patricia Lopes from Portugal with the video poetry “O Tempo” (The time).
   There are 19 Mentions comprised of 10 participants from Europe and  9 from Latin America: Elena Bartone (Italy); Nilza Centeno (Venezuela); Pasquale Ciboddo (Italy) Sardinian language ; Cinzia Corneli  (Italy); Gleyvis Coro Montanet  (Cuba); Ioan Daniel Cuculiuc (Romania); Emilia Fragomeni  (Italy); Rosanna Gazzola  (Italy); Nairys Fernandez Hernandez  (Cuba); Aurora Beatriz Idone  (Argentina); Ada Incudine  (Italy); Abian Laginestra  (Brazil); Salvatore Lo Presti (Italy); Morela Del Valle Maneyro Poyo (Venezuela) with a poetry in Amazon kari’ña language; Orlando Bienvenido Muñoz Pineda (Dominican Republic); Daniela Pignatti  (Italy); Jesús Quiñones Haces  (Cuba); Minna Rajainhaki  (Helsinki - Finland); Graciela Montenegro (Cuba) with a musical poetry.
   The contest Anthology – published by the “Città del Sole” Edition of Reggio Calabria – will comprise the works of 29 poets (16 from Europe and 13 from Latin America)  written in 11 languages (Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, English, Serbian, Finnish, Rumanian, Sardinian, Reggian dialect and Amazon Kari’na language) .
   
     27 poets (European 16, Latino American 7, from USA 1, 1 from Australia and 1 from Ghana) received accolades from the Jury.
   Prize given on Friday 24 of November at 5 p.m in Reggio Calabria, in “Giuditta Levato” hall of Palazzo Campanella, seat of  Calabrian Regional Council.

Accolades to:
   Samuel Kennedy Agyei Takyi (Ghana), Alberto Averini (Italy), Gladys Basagoitia Daza (Perù), Roberto Borghetti (Italy), Enrico Calenda (Italy), Celestino Casalini (Italy), Olmo Chittò (Italy), Martino De Marco (Australia), Lucia Gaddo Zanovello (Italy), Saily Diaz Luzdel Dia (Cuba), Viktoria Fedorovich (Byelorussia), Daniela Cosima Giucci Schmidt (Uruguay), Heloisa Gomes de Araujo Moreira (Brazil), Domenico Luiso (Italy), Vilma Márquez-Marquez Sharito Mar (El Salvador), Maria e Patrizia Massara (Italy), Ubaldo Pérez Hernández  (Cuba), Cristina Ricci (Italy), Anick Roschi (France), Stefan Ruess (Germany), Giselle Sakamoto Souza Vianna (Brazil), Silvia Scali (Italy), Maria Graziella Segreti (Italy), Elena Daniela Sgondea (Romania), Cristina Sparagana (Italy) and Juan Carlos Vásquez Flores (USA).