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Gian Antonio Cibotto (Rovigo, 8 May 1925 – Rovigo, 12 August 2017) was a Italian jouornalist and writer.

Born in a catholic and antifascist family, received a degree in Law at the Padova University. In the Fifties he moved to Rome, where worked at Rizzoli and at La Fiera Letteratura directed by Vincenzo Cardarelli and Diego Fabbri and focused mainly at journalism and literature and theater review (Resto del Carlino, Giornale d'Italia, Il Gazzettino and La Fiera Letteraria). He was director for many years of Teatro stabile del Veneto Carlo Goldoni.

His debut as a narrator took place in 1954, publishing for Neri Pozza Cronache of the flood, a report in the form of a diary of the tragic flood of the Polesine dated November 1951. Veneto region, his native land, represented a constant in his production storytelling.

In addition Cibotto was a judge of the Jury of the literary men of the Campiello Prize since the first edition in 1963 up to 1999, with the exclusion of 1972, when was President of it.

In 2018 the opera omnia of Cibotto was republished by the publisher La nave di Teseo.

Onorificenze e riconoscimenti

 * 1958 - Cinquina Premio Strega per La coda del parroco;
 * 1965 - Cinquina Premio Strega per La vaca mora;
 * 1975 - Premio Guidarello;
 * 1982 - Premio Napoli per Stramalora;
 * 1982 - Premio Comisso per Stramalora;
 * 1991 - Premio Flaiano di Letteratura


 * Cronache dell'alluvione, Venezia, Neri Pozza, 1954.
 * La coda del parroco, Firenze, Vallecchi, 1958.
 * Scano Boa, Milano, Rizzoli, 1961.
 * La rotta, Milano, Rizzoli, 1962.
 * La vaca mora, Firenze, Vallecchi, 1964.
 * Stramalora, Venezia, Marsilio, 1982.
 *  Diario veneto, Venezia, Marsilio, 1985.
 * Veneto segreto, Venezia, Marsilio, 1987.
 * Veneto d'ombra, Venezia, Marsilio, 1989.
 * Un certo veneto, Venezia, Marsilio, 1991.
 * Amen. Versi in lingua e in dialetto, Venezia, Marsilio, 1998.
 * In paradiso con la carrozza, Venezia, Marsilio, 1999.
 * I giorni della merla, Venezia, Neri Pozza, 2000.
 * Il principe stanco, Venezia, Neri Pozza, 2002.
 * Bassa marea. Versi in lingua e in dialetto, Venezia, Marsilio, 2006.