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“IF YOU’VE GOT NOTHING TO SAY… KEEP QUIET” – Kristian Braz pursues his mother tongue throughout his life
Full interview to Kristian Braz, Special Prize Ostana 2025, by Andrea Fantino. The 2025 Special Prize winner is a multi-talented soul, an author and activist who has championed the Breton language through both images and words. If we picture him as a main...
“WRITING IS LIKE SINGING IN THE CAR”: Berta Dávila, Galician language and honesty
The full interview with Berta Dávila, Premio Young Ostana 2025, conducted byAndrea Fantino. The 2025 Young Prize reveals an author who's mature and refined, with a political outlook free from hypocrisy. Well-established and mature in her artistic choices and...
From the ‘Broken Windows Theory’ to the ‘Land of Poetry’: Francesca Sammartino’s commitment and dedication to the Croatian-Molisan language
Francesca Sammartino, Prize Ostana 2025 for Historical Linguistic Minorities in Italy, reminds us all that promoting one’s mother tongue is also a matter of imitation. It was 1969 when Professor Philip Zimbardo conducted a social psychology experiment on behalf of...
TRULY ROOTED IN THE CAMARGUE: Occitan poetry of Estelle Ceccarini
The full interview with Estelle Ceccarini,, Occitan Language Prize 2025 (France), conducted by Andrea Fantino, is now available online. "Estelle Ceccarini’s poetry has found its way straight into my little personal library – that collection of books nestled...
“CINEMA IS REVOLUTION”: Kurdish soul in Mano Khalil’s films
The full interview with Mano Khalil, Cinema Prize 2025 in Ostana, conducted by Andrea Fantino, is now available online.The interview conducted by Andrea Fantino with the support of Gigi Ubaudi is one in which the Kurdish director Mano Khalil holds nothing back,...
The Éamon Ó Ciosáin Bridge
The full interview with Éamon Ó Ciosáin, winner of the 2025 Ostana Translation Prize, svolta da Andrea Fantino. In 1981–82, Éamon Ó Ciosáin lived and taught at the University of Rennes in Brittany. Having learnt Breton, he set out to translate a large collection...
Sunday, June 29: energy of languages in the closing day of Ostana Prize
Domenica 29 The last day of Ostana 2025 Prize opened with an intense and necessary reflection, “Mother Tongues, Women's Rights, and Material Cultures,” a planned meeting with Burkinabé artist Soulama Maténé Martine “Téné Tina”, an awardee for the cerma language....
Saturday, June 28 at Ostana Prize 2025: Music, Sounds and Memory
Saturday 28 After a greeting to Monviso that peeped through a clear, cloudless sky, the morning opened with a talk by Francesca Sammartino, winner of the Historic Minorities in Italy Prize, who recounted the resilience of Croatian-Molisan, Croatian-Molisean, or as...
Ostana Prize 2025: three days of languages, sounds and memory
From June 27-29, the 17th edition of the “Ostana Prize - Writings in Lingua Madre” transformed the small mountain village of Ostana into a world crossroads of cultures, stories and idioms rooted in the land. During these three days, participants from different...
Follow the Award Ceremony on our website!
After the fully online editions of 2020 and 2021, the Premio Ostana returns in streaming, offering the public the opportunity to follow the final award ceremony of the XVII edition. The award ceremony marks the climax of three days dedicated to mother tongues,...