Salvatore Mannuzzu (7 March 1930 – 10 September 2019) was an Italian writer, politician, and

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Life

Mannuzzu was born in

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. He was a magistrate until 1976 and a member of the

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until 1987. He is considered, with

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and Sergio Atzeni, to have been one of the initiators of the so-called Sardinian Literary Nouvelle Vague, or Sardinian Literary Spring, the Sardinian narrative in Europe, which followed the work of figures such as

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, Giuseppe Dessì,

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, and

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. ...

. Mannuzzu's most successful novel is ''Procedura'' (1988.

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), winner of Italy's

Viareggio Prize The Viareggio Prize ( it, Premio Viareggio, italic=no or ) is an Italian literary prize, first awarded in 1930. Named after the Tuscan city of Viareggio, it was conceived by three friends, , Carlo Salsa and Leonida Rèpaci, to rival the Milanes ...

in 1989. It is a detective story where the nameless narrator is an investigative judge who has to discover Valerio Garau's killer. Garau is an attorney from Sassari in Sardinia, who is poisoned to death while having coffee with his lover. The story unfolds over two years, 1978 and 1979, during a critical period for Italy, marked by a wave of terrorism. In 2000 the director Antonello Grimaldi has made the film ''Un delitto impossibile'' from this novel, which is also considered (with the coeval '' L'oro di Fraus'' by

), the origin of a genre of Sardinian detective stories (giallo sardo).

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, ''Sardegna calibro 9'', "Il giornale", 29 October 1988

Works

*''Procedura'' (novel) 1988 *''Un morso di formica'' (novel) 1989 *''La figlia perduta'' (short stories) 1992 *''Le ceneri del Montiferro'' (novel) 1994 *''II terzo suono'' (novel) 1995 *''Corpus'' (poems) 1997 *''Il catalogo'' (novel) 2000 *''Alice (novel)'' 2001 *''Le fate dell'inverno'' (novel) 2004 *''La ragazza perduta'' (novel) 2011 *''Snuff o l'arte di morire'' (novel) 2013

References

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