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, i. e. the Sardinian narrative of today, which was initiated by

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and

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, following the work of individual prominent figures such as Grazia Deledda,

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, 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

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Works

* ''Collodoro'', Solinas, 1997 * '' Il viaggio degli inganni'', Il Maestrale,Most of the writers of the

, like Salvatore Niffoi and Alberto Capitta, were first published by il Maestrale 199

* '' Il postino di Piracherfa'', Il Maestrale, 200

* ''Cristolu'', Il Maestrale, 200

* ''La sesta ora'', Il Maestrale, 2003 * ''La leggenda di Redenta Tiria'', Adelphi Edizioni, Adelphi, 2005 * ''La vedova scalza'', Adelphi Edizioni, Adelphi, 2006 * ''Ritorno a Baraule'', Adelphi Edizioni, Adelphi, 2007 * ''L'ultimo inverno'', Il Maestrale, 200

* ''Collodoro'', Adelphi Edizioni, Adelphi, 2008 * ''Il pane di Abele'', Adelphi Edizioni, Adelphi, 2009 * ''Paraìnas – Detti e parole di Barbagia'', Adelphi Edizioni, Adelphi, 2009 * ''Il bastone dei miracoli'', Adelphi Edizioni, Adelphi, 2010 * ''Il lago dei sogni'', Adelphi Edizioni, Adelphi, 2011 * ''I malfatati: romanzi 1999–2007'', Il Maestrale, 2011 * ''Pantumas'', Feltrinelli (publisher), Feltrinelli, 2012 * ''Il venditore di metafore'', Giunti Editore, 2017

Bibliography

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, ''Sardegna, che Nouvelle vague!'', Panorama, November 200

*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,

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Verlag, 2008.

References

External links

*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/ ccessed 8 June 2013 {{DEFAULTSORT:Niffoi, Salvatore 21st-century Italian novelists People from the Province of Nuoro 1950 births Living people Italian male novelists Premio Campiello winners 21st-century Italian male writers