Flavio Soriga (born 1975 in Uta, Sardinia) is an Italian writer.

Biography

Flavio Soriga is the youngest representative of the Sardinian literary nouvelle vague, aka Sardinian Literary Spring, namely the Sardinian narrative of today in the European arena, started by Giulio Angioni, Salvatore Mannuzzu and Sergio Atzeni, after the works of prominent figures such as

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, Emilio Lussu, Giuseppe Dessì, Gavino Ledda,

Salvatore Satta Salvatore Satta (9 August 1902 in Nuoro – 19 April 1975 in Rome) was an Italian jurist and writer. He is famous for the novel '' The Day of Judgment'' (orig. it, Il giorno del giudizio) (1975), and for several important studies on civil law. ...

. Winner in the 2000 of the Italo Calvino Prize (for unpublished works) with the collection of short stories ''Diavoli di Nuraiò'', Flavio Soriga won in 2003, with the detective novel ''Neropioggia'', the

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. In 2007 he was granted by the

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the donation of the Foundation Abraham Woursell (HALMA network) for young writers:. In 2008, with the novel'' Sardinia Blues'' he won the

Mondello Prize The Mondello Prize (Italian: Premio Mondello or Premio letterario internazionale Mondello Città di Palermo) is an Italian literary award established in 1975. History The award was founded by a group of Palermo intellectuals and academics, and was ...

, and in 2009 the Piero Chiara Prize with the collection of short stories ''L'amore a Londra e in altri luoghi''. He currently lives in Rome, where he works as a free lance for Italian newspapers and televisions. Flavio Soriga is affected by Thalassemia, in his novel ''Sardinia Blues'' speaks of his disease.«La mia vita al ritmo delle trasfusioni»
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Works

*''Diavoli di Nuraiò'' ( Il Maestrale, 2000) *''Neropioggia'' ( Garzanti, 2002) *''Sardinia Blues'' (

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, 2008) *''L'amore a Londra e in altri luoghi'' (

, 2009) *''Il cuore dei briganti'' (

, 2010) *''Nuraghe Beach'' ( Laterza, 2011) *''Metropolis'' (

, 2013)

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Soriga, Flavio 21st-century Italian novelists People from the Province of Cagliari 1975 births Living people Italian male novelists 21st-century Italian male writers