Giuseppe Dessì

{{Short description|Italian writer}}

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Giuseppe Dessì (7 August 1909 – 6 July 1977) was an Italian novelist, short-story writer and playwright from Sardinia. His novel Paese d'ombre won the 1972 Strega Prize and was translated into English as The Forests of Norbio.{{cite book|author=Roy P. Domenico|title=The regions of Italy: a reference guide to history and culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wZ-PMNC5XOkC&pg=PA260|access-date=18 April 2013|year=2002|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-30733-1|page=260}}

Dessì grew up in Villacidro in Sardinia but later moved to Rome.{{cite book|author=Damien Simonis|title=Sardinia: The Elusive Gem of the Mediterranean.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vgThFUJonT0C&pg=PA28|access-date=18 April 2013|year=2003|publisher=Lonely Planet|isbn=978-1-74059-033-4|page=28}}