The historical jury

Nonino Prize's historical Jury

V.S Naipaul

V.S Naipaul

Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, known also as V.S. Naipaul, was a Trinidadian novelist and essayist,   naturalized British. He worked for the BBC and wrote for the New Statesman as a literary reviewer (1956-60). He obtained many acknowledgements. In 1990 Queen Elizabeth awarded him the knighthood. In 1993 he won the Nonino International Prize for the book India: a million riots. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2001. From 2006 to 2018 he was the President of the Jury of the Nonino Prize.

 

Ermanno Olmi

Italian movie and drama director. He was awarded the Nonino Prize in 1979 for “The Tree of Wooden Clogs” (Palme d’Or in 1978). In 1987 Silver Lion with “Long Live the Lady!” And Gold Lion in 1988 with “The Legend of the Holy Drinker”. In 2008 he received the Honorary Gold Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

Ulderico Bernardi

Italian professor of Sociology of cultural practices at the Department of Economic sciences of Ca’ Foscari University, Venice. He won the Nonino Prize in 1979 for his articles published in the Corriere della Sera.
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Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

He is considered one of the most important modern French historians. Director of the École pratique des hautes études in Paris, Professor of History of Modern Civilization at the Collège de France and General administrator of Paris’ Bibliothèque Nationale. He was awarded the Nonino Prize in 1992.
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James Lovelock

English chemist, independent scientist, writer and environmental researcher. He formulated the Gaia Theory. Professor of Chemistry at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, member of the Royal Society since 1974, winner of the Nonino Prize in 1996 and Companion of Honour in 2003.
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