The Presentation of the XXIIIth Nosside International Poetry Prize and the awarding of Nosside Lifetime Achievement Prize to Claudio Angelini will take place in New York, in the Italian Cultural Institute, Park Avenue n. 686, on Wednesday 21th of March (Unesco World Poetry Day) at 6 p.m. Angelini, a great name of Italian journalism and Director of the Italian Cultural Institute, is a poet of exquisite sensibility, highly esteemed by personalities of the poetry world like the Nobel winner Salvatore Quasimodo, Mario Luzi and Jorge Luis Borges. In the past editions the Nosside Lifetime Achievement Prize has been awarded to Silva Kaputikyan (Armenia) in 1989, Miquel Martí i Pol (Spagna) in 1991 and Bella Achmadulina (Russia) in 1992.
The Presentation will be directed by the President of Centro Studi Bosio as well as of Nosside Prize Pasquale Amato and by the Coordinator of Nosside English Area Tatiana Vavachin. The winning works of NossideVideo (“I walk” of Pino Amaddeo supported by Director Salvatore Canale) and NossideMusic 2006 (“Princes of silence” of Miguel Angel Ribó con musica de Iván Domínguez de la Hoz) will be shown during the event.
Nosside International is the only global poetry contest for unpublished works, multilingual and multimedia, organized by the Centro Studi Bosio of Reggio Calabria (www.nosside.com). It is dedicated to Nosside, the female poet of Occident Greeks that lived in Locri in the III century B.C; its logo, inspired by the Ancient Greek Civilization, is a work by Umberto Boccioni, the supreme futurist master of Reggio Calabria; the silver Plaque given to the Overall Winner represents a precious elaboration of Boccioni’s logo, handmade by the goldsmith Gerardo Sacco from Crotone.
From 2005 it has been carried out under the supervision of UNESCO, which included the Nosside Prize in the Unesco World Poetry Directory and nominated the “Bosio” as one of three Italian members of Unesco’s Global Alliance for Cultural Diversity. And it has been ranked by the Wikipedia Encyclopedia among the 5 Major International Poetry Awards.
Nosside has five official languages (Italian, English, Spanish, French and Portuguese) and it is open to all the other languages (be they official, native or minority languages, regional idioms and dialects) and to all the forms of expression (written poetry, video and musical poetries). To apply you should submit three written poems and/or one video poem and/or one musical poem by 31 May 2007.
The Jury will be appointed after the application deadline. The international Jury will receive the poems marked by numbers in order to guarantee a complete transparency during the judging process. The Jury will select five Winners, Five Special Mentions and 10 or more Mentions, as well as other entries could be short-listed.
Among the 5 Winners the Chairmanship will choose the overall winner, who will receive 2.000 €uro, the Nosside silver Plaque by Umberto Boccioni handmade by the Goldsmith Gerardo Sacco and the publication of three poems in the 2007 Nosside Prize Anthology. The Anthology, prepared by the Centre of Studies ‘Bosio”, will be published by the “Citta’del Sole” Edition of Reggio Calabria. The Anthology will also include one work of each Winner, Special Mentioned and Mentioned authors. The 4 Winners will receive 800 €uro and the Nosside Plaque and to the Special Mentioned authors will be given 400 €uro and the Nosside Plaque.
Thanks to the partnership agreement stipulated with CinemAvvenire Association (founded by Gillo Pontecorvo, a great master of cinema) the works of the Winners, Special Mentioned and Mentioned authors of NossideVideo will be presented at two short film events inside of Cinematographic Mostra of Venice or Rome Film Festival.
Prize giving event will take place in Reggio Calabria, on Friday 30th of November 2007.
For further details see website www.nosside.com or write to info@nosside.com and segreteria@nosside.com.