Salvatore Niffoi
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
[edit]- Collodoro, Solinas, 1997
- Il viaggio degli inganni, Il Maestrale,[2] 1999 [1]
- Il postino di Piracherfa, Il Maestrale, 2000 [2]
- Cristolu, Il Maestrale, 2001 [3]
- La sesta ora, Il Maestrale, 2003
- La leggenda di Redenta Tiria, Adelphi, 2005
- La vedova scalza, Adelphi, 2006
- Ritorno a Baraule, Adelphi, 2007
- L'ultimo inverno, Il Maestrale, 2007 [4]
- Collodoro, Adelphi, 2008
- Il pane di Abele, Adelphi, 2009
- Paraìnas – Detti e parole di Barbagia, Adelphi, 2009
- Il bastone dei miracoli, Adelphi, 2010
- Il lago dei sogni, Adelphi, 2011
- I malfatati: romanzi 1999–2007, Il Maestrale, 2011
- Pantumas, Feltrinelli, 2012
- Il venditore di metafore, Giunti Editore, 2017
Bibliography
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^ Giulio Angioni, Cartas de Logu. Scrittori Sardi allo specchio, CUEC 2007
- ^ Most of the writers of the Sardinian Literary Spring, like Salvatore Niffoi and Alberto Capitta, were first published by il Maestrale
External links
[edit]- CultBook La vedova scalza Niffoi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBPjnL5VQRw
- Salvatore Niffoi a Ventimila righe sotto i mari: intervista all’autore in http://librisenzacarta.it/2009/07/17/salvatore-niffoi-a-ventimila-righe-sotto-i-mari-intervista-all-autore/ [accessed 8 June 2013 ]
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