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Salvatore Niffoi

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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.

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Bibliography

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  • 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.

References

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  1. ^ Giulio Angioni, Cartas de Logu. Scrittori Sardi allo specchio, CUEC 2007
  2. ^ Most of the writers of the Sardinian Literary Spring, like Salvatore Niffoi and Alberto Capitta, were first published by il Maestrale
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