The Papa Journalism Award – Ernest Hemingway promotes writing, its originality and enhances the passion for journalism of Italian university, master and journalism school students, to whom the announcement is addressed.
The Papa Award, created by the non-profit cultural association Cinzia Vitale with the patronage of the Federazione Nazionale Stampa Italiana and of the Journalists Association of Veneto, recalls the nickname “Papa”, pinned on Ernest Hemingway by his friend Gerald Murphy when he came back from one of his first journeys to Spain, and falls within the cultural programme of the festival dedicated to Hemingway, called Hemingway, the Nobel Prize Winner in the Lagoon of Caorle, which takes place every year in Caorle (Venice) with the patronage of the Veneto Region.
The themes of “Papa Journalism Award” are Hamingway’s intense and lasting relationship with Veneto and especially the American journalist and writer’s works inspired by this land, which have become part of the world heritage. Candidates’ writings, characterised by a journalistic style, should give particular prominence to the relationship between “Papa” and the places in Veneto that nourished his imagination as a writer.