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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.

Works

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

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

^ 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