Flavio Soriga

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Flavio Soriga (2009)

Flavio Soriga (born August 11, 1975 in Uta near Cagliari ) is an Italian writer and journalist .

Life

Flavio Soriga was born in Sardinia in 1975 . After stays in Naples, Bologna and London, he now lives in Rome . His first volume of short stories , Diavoli di Nuraiò , was published in 2000, followed by the novel Neropioggia (The Black Rain) in 2002 . Since 2008 with Sardinia Blues and 2010 with Il cuore dei Briganti  further novels have been published.

Soriga writes in Italian . He is the youngest representative of the Sardinian literary nouvelle vague , also known as New Sardinian Literature , started by Giulio Angioni , Salvatore Mannuzzu and Sergio Atzeni , following the work of prominent figures such as Grazia Deledda , Emilio Lussu , Giuseppe Dessì , Gavino Ledda and Salvatore Satta .

There are translations of his texts in German, English , Norwegian , Romanian , Croatian , Galician and Welsh . As a journalist, Soriga writes for the daily newspaper L'Unità and various magazines. He was co-initiator of the Sardinian literature festival Isola delle Storie Gavoi and participates in the direction of the poetry festival Settembre dei Poeti in Seneghe.

Awards

  • Italo Calvino Prize 2000. For Diavoli di Nuraiò.
  • Price Grazia Deledda Giovani 2003. For Neropioggia.
  • Mondello Palermo International Literature Prize 2008. For Sardinia Blues.
  • Piero Chiara Literature Prize 2009. For L'amore a Londra e in altri luoghi. ( Love in London and elsewhere. )
  • HALMA grant 2010

Works

in German translation:

  • Let go of the dogs. Short story. Translated from the Italian by Martina Kempter. Corraini, Mantua 2003.
  • The black rain. Novel. Translated from the Italian by Michael von Killisch-Horn. Luchterhand, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-630-62116-6 .
  • Love in London and elsewhere. Stories. Translated from the Italian by Viktoria von Schirach. Luchterhand, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-630-62187-6 .
  • Uta, Prague and the whole world. Essay. Translated from the Italian by Viktoria von Schirach, Halma Network 2010.
  • Sardinia Blues. In: Michaela De Giorgio and Otto Kallscheuer (eds.): Sardinia - a literary invitation. Klaus Wagenbach, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-8031-1277-4 . Pp. 109-114.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Giulio Angioni: Cartas de Logu. Scrittori Sardi allo specchio , CUEC 2007.
  2. ^ Leonie Schröder: Sardinienbilder. Continuities and innovations in Sardinian literature and journalism in the post-war period. Peter Lang , Bern 2000. Birgit Wagner: Sardinia, island in dialogue. Texts, discourses, films. Francke , Tübingen 2008.
  3. ^ Albo d'Oro dei vincitori del Premio Internazionale Letterario Mondello. List of award winners since 1975  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Italian), accessed on 23 January 2013 from the Fondazione Sicilia .@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.fondazionesicilia.it  
  4. ↑ 21. Premio Chiara , winner announcement 2009 (Italian), accessed on January 23, 2013.
  5. ↑ Flavio Soriga in the list of scholarship holders of the Halma network ( Memento of the original from September 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 23, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.halma-network.eu
  6. ↑ in Borders . Texts by Bjarte Breiteig, Richard John Evans, Angharad Price, Tilman Rammstedt and Flavio Soriga. Scritture Giovani, Mantua 2003. (PDF file, 2.6 MB)
  7. ↑ Franz Schuh: The sky over Sardinia . Review ( memento of March 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) in the journal Literaturen from January / February 2008, accessed in the Internet Archive on September 7, 2012.
  8. ^ Kolja Mensing: Winter in Sardinia . Reviewed in the Tagesspiegel on December 19, 2007, accessed on January 23, 2013.
  9. ↑ Review  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the Jüdische Zeitung of October 2007, accessed on January 23, 2013.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.jzeit.de  
  10. ↑ Review by Jürgen Kasten: Exciting. In “Musenblätter” from October 20, 2010, accessed on January 23, 2013.
  11. ↑ Review by Angelo Algieri: Feelings of a Generation. In the Berlin literary criticism of November 17, 2010, accessed on January 23, 2013.
  12. ↑ text and it. Original ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by Sorigas Uta, Praga, Roma e il mondo interno at the Halma network, accessed on January 23, 2013.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.halma-network.eu
  13. ↑ book Portrait of the publisher Klaus Wagenbach , accessed January 23, 2013.
  14. ↑ Peeling cork oaks for all of Europe. Review in the FAZ on May 19, 2011, accessed on November 1, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Soriga, Flavio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Uta