The Giorgio Fini Prize will be awarded for the third time on 11 December 2001. The winner this year is Albeiro Vargas, a 28-year-old Columbian who since the age of 8 has led and promoted a programme in Bucaramanga to help and support the extremely poor, young and old alike.
Albeiro Vargas has been proposed for the Nobel Peace Prize, and his work has also recently been recognised by UNICEF.

There will be two special awards, one to Giorgio Pinchiorri, born in Modena and owner of the famous Enoteca Pinchiorri in Florence, one the ten top restaurants in the world, and the other in memory of the recently departed Gian Paolo Biasin, Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Berkeley and author of numerous studies and works, including, in particular, 'I sapori della modernità: cibo e romanzo' (Bologna, il Mulino, 1991).