Salvatore Niffoi

Salvatore Niffoi (2008)

Salvatore Niffoi (* 1950 in Orani ) is an Italian writer from Sardinia .

Life

Little is known of Niffoi's life. He lives to this day (2011) in his birthplace Orani in Sardinia, where he taught at a middle school until 2006. He is a representative of the Sardinian literary nouvelle vague , also known as New Sardinian Literature .

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After a first novel published in 1997 by a small Sardinian publisher , Niffoi became known in 2005 with his novel La leggenda di Redenta Tiria ( Eng . The legend of Redenta Tiria ). A year later, his novel La vedova scalza (Eng. The barefoot widow ) was published, for which he received the Premio Campiello in 2006 . Both novels are set in an archaic rural Sardinia, in which blood revenge, violence, magic and “pre-civilizational” conditions prevail. Literary models can be found in Carlo Levi ( Cristo si è fermato a Eboli , German Christ only came to Eboli , 1945), parallels in contemporary Italian literature with the author Michela Murgia, who was also born in Sardinia ( Accabadora , Italian 2009, German 2010) find. Niffoi's style is characterized by simple narration, which occasionally works with flashbacks and - especially in La vedova scalza - repeatedly takes up sprinkles from the Sardinian language.

German translations

• The legend of Redenta Tiria , translated from the Italian by Sigrid Vagt, Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 2007.
• The barefoot widow , translated from the Italian by Andreas Löhrer, Verlag Paul Zsolnay, Vienna 2011.

Web links

• Literature by and about Salvatore Niffoi in the catalog of the German National Library