Salvatore Niffoi
Italian writer (born 1950)
Salvatore Niffoi, Conference room Biblioteca Delfini, Modena, Salvatore Niffoi (born 1950, in Orani ) is an Italian writer.
Niffoi is a representative of the so-called Sardinian Literary Nouvelle Vague, or Sardinian Literary Spring , i. e. the Sardinian narrative of today, which was initiated by Giulio Angioni ,[ 1] Salvatore Mannuzzu and Sergio Atzeni , following the work of individual prominent figures such as Grazia Deledda , Emilio Lussu , Giuseppe Dessì , Gavino Ledda , Salvatore Satta .
His prose is mostly a mixture of Italian and Sardinian.
Niffoi lives in Orani, a small village of Barbagia, in the province of Nuoro, where he was a middle school teacher until 2006. He started his career as a novelist in 1997, with his first work, Collodoro . In 2006, with the novel La vedova scalza he won the Campiello Prize .
Works
Collodoro , Solinas , 1997Il viaggio degli inganni Il Maestrale ,[ 2] [1] Il postino di Piracherfa [2] Cristolu , Il Maestrale , 2001 [3] La sesta ora , Il Maestrale, 2003La leggenda di Redenta Tiria , Adelphi , 2005La vedova scalza , Adelphi , 2006Ritorno a Baraule , Adelphi , 2007L'ultimo inverno , Il Maestrale, 2007 [4] Collodoro , Adelphi , 2008Il pane di Abele , Adelphi , 2009Paraìnas – Detti e parole di Barbagia , Adelphi , 2009Il bastone dei miracoli , Adelphi , 2010Il lago dei sogni , Adelphi , 2011I malfatati: romanzi 1999–2007 , Il Maestrale, 2011Pantumas , Feltrinelli , 2012Il venditore di metafore , Giunti Editore, 2017
Bibliography
Goffredo Fofi , Sardegna, che Nouvelle vague! , Panorama, November 2003 [5] .A. M. Amendola, L'isola che sorprende. La narrativa sarda in italiano (1974–2006) , Cagliari, CUEC 2008.
Birgit Wagner, Sardinien, Insel im Dialog. Texte, Diskurse, Filme , Tübingen, Francke Verlag, 2008.
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