Salvatore Mannuzzu
{{Short description|Italian writer (1930–2019)}}
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Salvatore Mannuzzu (7 March 1930 – 10 September 2019)[https://www.fanpage.it/cultura/morto-salvatore-mannuzzu-addio-a-89-anni-al-grande-scrittore-sardo/ Morto Salvatore Mannuzzu, addio a 89 anni al grande scrittore sardo] {{in lang|it}} was an Italian writer, politician, and magistrate.
Life
Mannuzzu was born in Pitigliano. He was a magistrate until 1976 and a member of the Italian Parliament until 1987. He is considered, with Giulio AngioniGiulio Angioni, Cartas de logu: scrittori sardi allo specchio, CUEC 2007 and Sergio Atzeni,Sergio Atzeni, L'indagine di Mannuzzu nel torbido di una Sassari/Italia, in "Linea d'ombra", January 1989 to have been one of the initiators of the so-called Sardinian Literary Nouvelle Vague,Goffredo Fofi, Sardegna, che Nouvelle vague!, Panorama, novembre 2003 {{cite web |url=http://archivio.panorama.it/home/articolo/idA020001021715 |title=Sardegna, che Nouvelle vague! |access-date=2013-06-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140323160617/http://archivio.panorama.it/home/articolo/idA020001021715 |archive-date=23 March 2014 |df=dmy-all }} or Sardinian Literary Spring, the Sardinian narrative in Europe, which followed the work of figures such as Grazia Deledda, Emilio Lussu, Giuseppe Dessì, Gavino Ledda, and Salvatore Satta.
Mannuzzu's most successful novel is Procedura (1988. Einaudi), winner of Italy's Viareggio Prize 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 made the film Un delitto impossibile from this novel, which is also considered (with the coeval L'oro di Fraus by Giulio Angioni), the origin of a genre of Sardinian detective stories (giallo sardo).Oreste del Buono, L'isola del mistero, "Panorama", 17 July 1988 p. 18Geno Pampaloni, 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
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Category:20th-century Italian novelists
Category:20th-century Italian male writers
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