Salvatore Niffoi

Salvatore Niffoi (born 1950, in Orani, Sardinia) 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,Giulio Angioni, Cartas de Logu. Scrittori Sardi allo specchio, CUEC 2007 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 the Italian and Sardinian languages.

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, 1997 Il viaggio degli inganni, Il Maestrale,Most of the writers of the Sardinian Literary Spring, like Salvatore Niffoi and Alberto Capitta, were first published by il Maestrale 1999 Il postino di Piracherfa, Il Maestrale, 2000 Cristolu, Il Maestrale, 2001 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 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 Goffredo Fofi, Sardegna, che Nouvelle vague!, Panorama, November 2003 . 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.

Salvatore Niffoi

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