Nadia Cavalera

{{Short description|Italian writer}}

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Nadia Cavalera (born 20 September 1950 in Galatone, Lecce) is an Italian novelist, poetAnthony Contilia (poetry reviewer), Spoesie, pp. 86 EUR 10, Enzymes, 2010,[http://www.stilos.it/nadia_cavalera_-_spoesie_.html L '"argot" poetic Nadia Cavalera], Retrieved Aug. 30, 2014 and literary critic.Di Luigi Carotenuto, In Poetry, March 5, 2013, [http://www.lestroverso.it/?p=1900 Nadia Cavalera. The astutica ergocratica], Retrieved Aug. 30, 2014di MICHELE BOMBACIGNO, Giovedì, 26 Giugno 2014, Senza Colonne News (Italy),[http://www.senzacolonnenews.it/segna-libro-il-blog-di-michele-bombacigno/item/4058-nadia-cavalera,-i-suoi-palazzi-di-brindisi-e-quegli-articoli-scritti-negli-anni-ottanta-oppure-oggi.html Nadia Cavalera, i suoi Palazzi di Brindisi e quegli articoli scritti negli anni Ottanta. Oppure oggi?], Retrieved Aug. 30, 2014JUNE 16, 2014, MAZARACULT, Liquida TV (Italian news source),[http://www.liquida.it/nadia-cavalera/?coolbox=0_99_0_30384615 ], Retrieved Aug. 30, 2014, "...The Prize "Tassoni" this year (14 June 2014), designed and edited by the poet Nadia Cavalera, in its ninth year, has given the award "honorary..."

Cavalera attended the Liceo Classico "Palmieri" de Lecce and earned a bachelor's degree in Philosophy in the Università di Lecce, with the thesis "Democrazia e socialismo nel giovane Marx". She started her political activity in PCI when she was 20 years old. She worked in Brindisi for 12 years and since 1988, she has lived and worked as a teacher in Modena. She founded Brindisi's first entirely literary magazine, Gheminga.{{cite web|last1=Bonaffini|first1=Luigi|title=Nadia Cavalera|url=http://userhome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/bonaffini/DP/cavalera.htm|website=Italian Dialect Poetry|publisher=Journal of Italian Translation|accessdate=25 September 2014}} In 1990, she and the poet Edoardo Sanguineti founded and became editors of the journal Bollettario: quadrimestrale di scrittura e critica,{{cite web |title=Informazioni/Bollettario |url=http://www.bollettario.it/bollettario/info/bollettario.html}}{{cite news |last1=Fuoco|first1=Michele|title=La casa di Nadia Cavalera diventa un foyer culturale|url=http://gazzettadimodena.gelocal.it/modena/cronaca/2010/11/16/news/la-casa-di-nadia-cavalera-diventa-un-foyer-culturale-1.360803|publisher=Gazzetta de Modena |date=Nov 16, 2010}} issued three times a year, which is a publication of literature and literary criticism of the cultural association "Le avanguardie". The association proposes an avant-garde philosophy that can be permanent, non-elitist and open to the concept of umafeminità (a mix of uomo, man and feminità, femininity, a concept which sees men and women as equal despite their differences). In 2005, she founded the literary prize Premio Alessandro Tassoni, which is administered by the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.{{cite web |url=http://www.provincia.pisa.it/interno.php?id=40353 |title=Premio letterario Alessandro Tassoni |publisher=Provincia di Pisa}}{{cite news |author=Michele Fuoco |date=26 April 2014 |publisher=Gazzetta di Modena |url=http://gazzettadimodena.gelocal.it/modena/cronaca/2014/04/26/news/il-tassoni-cambia-corso-e-diventa-un-reading-annuale-1.9116483 |accessdate=Aug 30, 2014 |title=Il Tassoni cambia corso e diventa un reading annuale}}