Salvatore Mannuzzu

Italian writer (1930–2019)

Salvatore Mannuzzu

Salvatore Mannuzzu (7 March 1930 – 10 September 2019)[1] 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 Angioni[2] and Sergio Atzeni,[3] to have been one of the initiators of the so-called Sardinian Literary Nouvelle Vague,[4] 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).[5][6]

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

References

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  1. ^ Morto Salvatore Mannuzzu, addio a 89 anni al grande scrittore sardo (in Italian)
  2. ^ Giulio Angioni, Cartas de logu: scrittori sardi allo specchio, CUEC 2007
  3. ^ Sergio Atzeni, L'indagine di Mannuzzu nel torbido di una Sassari/Italia, in "Linea d'ombra", January 1989
  4. ^ Goffredo Fofi, Sardegna, che Nouvelle vague!, Panorama, novembre 2003 "Sardegna, che Nouvelle vague!". Archived from the original on 23 March 2014. Retrieved 10 June 2013.
  5. ^ Oreste del Buono, L'isola del mistero, "Panorama", 17 July 1988 p. 18
  6. ^ Geno Pampaloni, Sardegna calibro 9, "Il giornale", 29 October 1988
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Recipients of the Viareggio Prize
1930s
1940s
Silvio Micheli – Umberto Saba (1946) • Antonio Gramsci (1947) • Aldo PalazzeschiElsa MoranteSibilla Aleramo (1948) • Arturo Carlo Jemolo – Renata Viganò (1949)
1950s
Francesco JovineCarlo Bernari (1950) • Domenico Rea (1951) • Tommaso Fiore (1952) • Carlo Emilio Gadda (1953) • Rocco Scotellaro (1954) • Vasco Pratolini (1955) • Carlo LeviGianna Manzini (1956) • Italo CalvinoPier Paolo Pasolini (1957) • Ernesto de Martino (1958) • Marino Moretti (1959)
1960s
Giovanni Battista Angioletti (1960) • Alberto Moravia (1961) • Giorgio Bassani (1962) • Antonio Delfini – Sergio Solmi (1963) • Giuseppe Berto (1964) • Goffredo Parise - Angelo Maria Ripellino (1965) • Ottiero OttieriAlfonso Gatto (1966) • Raffaello Brignetti (1967) • Libero Bigiaretti (1968) • Fulvio Tomizza (1969)
1970s
Nello Saito (1970) • Ugo Attardi (1971) • Romano Bilenchi (1972) • Achille Campanile (1973) • Clotilde Marghieri (1974) • Paolo Volponi (1975) • Mario TobinoDario BellezzaSergio Solmi (1976) • Davide Lajolo (1977) • Antonio Altomonte – Mario Luzi (1978) • Giorgio Manganelli (1979)
1980s
Stefano Terra (1980) • Enzo Siciliano (1981) • Primo Levi (1982) • Giuliana Morandini (1983) • Gina Lagorio – Bruno Gentili (1984) • Manlio Cancogni (1985) • Marisa Volpi (1986) • Mario Spinella (1987) • Rosetta Loy (1988) • Salvatore Mannuzzu (1989)
1990s
Luisa Adorno – Cesare Viviani – Maurizio Calvesi (1990) • Antonio Debenedetti (1991) • Luigi Malerba (1992) • Alessandro Baricco (1993) • Antonio Tabucchi (1994) • Maurizio Maggiani – Elio Pagliarani (1995) • Ermanno ReaAlda Merini (1996) • Claudio Piersanti – Franca Grisoni – Corrado Stajano (1997) • Giorgio Pressburger – Michele Sovente – Carlo Ginzburg (1998) • Ernesto Franco (1999)
2000s
Giorgio van Straten – Sandro Veronesi (2000) • Niccolò Ammaniti – Michele Ranchetti – Giorgio Pestelli (2001) • Fleur JaeggyJolanda Insana – Alfonso Berardinelli (2002) • Giuseppe Montesano (2003) • Edoardo Albinati – Andrea Tagliapietra – Livia Livi (2004) • Raffaele La CapriaAlberto ArbasinoMilo de Angelis (2005) • Gianni Celati – Giovanni Agosti – Giuseppe ConteRoberto Saviano (2006) • Filippo Tuena – Paolo Mauri – Silvia Bre – Simona Baldanzi – Paolo Colagrande – Paolo Fallai (2007) • Francesca Sanvitale – Miguel Gotor – Eugenio De Signoribus (2008) • Edith Bruck – Adriano Prosperi – Ennio Cavalli (2009)
2010s
Nicola Lagioia – Michele Emmer – Pierluigi Cappello (2010) • Alessandro Mari – Mario Lavagetto – Gian Mario Villalta (2011) • Nicola Gardini – Franco Lo Piparo – Antonella Anedda (2012) • Paolo Di Stefano – Giulio Guidorizzi – Enrico Testa (2013) • Francesco Pecoraro – Alessandro Fo – Luciano Mecacci (2014) • Antonio Scurati – Massimo Bucciantini – Franco Buffoni (2015) • Franco Cordelli – Bruno Pischedda – Sonia Gentili (2016) • Gianfranco Calligarich – Giuseppe Montesano – Stefano Carrai (2017) • Fabio Genovesi – Giuseppe Lupo (2018) • Emanuele Trevi – Renato Minore – Saverio Ricci (2019)
2020s
Paolo Di Paolo – Luciano Cecchinel – Giulio Ferroni (2020) • Edith Bruck - Flavio Santi - Walter Siti (2021) • Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli – Pietro CastellittoClaudio Damiani – Wlodek Goldkorn – Agnese Pini – Veronica Raimo – Silvia Ronchey (2022)