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Edition 60 (1989) Winner
Salvatore Mannuzzu
サルヴァトーレ・マネッツゥ
Salvatore Mannuzzu
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1930-03-07 （Pitigliano）
- Died
- 2019-09-10 （unknown） age 89
- Nationality
- Italy
- Languages
- Italian
- Residence History
- Pitigliano
Career
- Occupations
- writer, politician, magistrate
- Active Years
- 1930-2019
- Influenced By
- Grazia Deledda, Emilio Lussu, Giuseppe Dessì, Gavino Ledda, Salvatore Satta
- Influenced
- Giulio Angioni, Sergio Atzeni
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Viareggio Prize | Procedura | — | Viareggio Prize Foundation | winner |
Viareggio Prize
1989
Work:
Procedura
Organization:
Viareggio Prize Foundation
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Procedura
1988 detective novelA nameless investigative judge narrates the search for the killer of Valerio Garau, a Sassari attorney poisoned while having coffee with his lover. Set in 1978-1979 during Italy's terrorism wave.
justiceSardiniaterrorismmurder
Adaptations
- [film] Un delitto impossibile / Antonello Grimaldi (2000)
Bibliography
- 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)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Sardinian Literary Nouvelle Vague
- Recurring Motifs
- Sardinian landscapesjustice and crime
Legacy
Considered one of the initiators of the Sardinian Literary Nouvelle Vague or Sardinian Literary Spring, bringing Sardinian narrative to Europe.
Trivia
- One of the initiators of the Sardinian Literary Nouvelle Vague.
- Procedura is considered the origin of giallo sardo (Sardinian detective stories).