Salvatore Farina (10 January 1846 – 15 December 1918) was an Italian

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whose style of sentimental humor has been compared to that of

Charles Dickens Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian e ...

. He was nominated for the

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three times.

Life

Born in the

Sardinia Sardinia ( ; it, Sardegna, label=Italian, Corsican and Tabarchino ; sc, Sardigna , sdc, Sardhigna; french: Sardaigne; sdn, Saldigna; ca, Sardenya, label=Algherese and Catalan) is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after ...

n town of

Sorso Sorso ( sdc, Sòssu) is a ''comune'' (municipality) of c. 14,700 inhabitants in the province of Sassari in the Italian region Sardinia, located about north of Sassari. Overview Sorso is a tourist resort facing the Gulf of Asinara. Apart tourism, ...

, he studied

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and

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before moving to

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and taking up literature, remaining there for the rest of his life. The late nineteenth century English novelist

George Gissing George Robert Gissing (; 22 November 1857 – 28 December 1903) was an English novelist, who published 23 novels between 1880 and 1903. His best-known works have reappeared in modern editions. They include ''The Nether World'' (1889), ''New Grub ...

thought that his novella ''Si Muore'', read by him in January 1890, was 'far more interesting than I expected; in fact excellently written'.Coustillas, Pierre ed. London and the Life of Literature in Late Victorian England: the Diary of George Gissing, Novelist. Brighton: Harvester Press,1978, p.202.

Works

* ''Il tesoro di Donnina'' (1873) * ''Amore bendato'' (1875) * ''Capelli biondi'' (1876) * ''Mio figlio!'' (1877-1881) * ''Si Muore: L'ultima battaglia di Prete Agostino'' (1886) * ''Frutti proibiti'' * ''Un tiranno al bagni di mare'' * ''Cuore e blasone'' * ''Due amori'' * ''Amore ha cento occhi'' * ''Per la vita e per la morte'' * ''La mia giornata'', a trilogy: ** ''Dall'alba al meriggio'' (1910) ** ''Care ombre'' (1913) ** ''Dal meriggio al tramonto'' (1915)

References

* ''Convegno Salvatore Farina: la figura e il ruolo a 150 anni dalla nascita'' (1996 : Sorso, Italy) ;Notes

External links

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Farina page, with picture
(in Italian) 1846 births 1918 deaths People from Sorso Italian male writers Sardinian literature {{Italy-writer-stub