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<!-- EDIT BELOW THIS LINE -- Sardinian Literary Spring is a definition of the whole body of the Sardinian literature (especially narrative) of today in the European arena.

History
The Sardinian Literary Spring, aka Sardinian Literary Nouvelle Vague,, is often considered to have been started in the late Eighties of the last century mainly by Giulio Angioni, Sergio Atzeni and Salvatore Mannuzzu, and then continued  by authors such as Salvatore Niffoi, Alberto Capitta, Giorgio Todde, Michela Murgia, Flavio Soriga, Milena Agus, Francesco Abate and many others. . The Sardinian Literary Spring is considered to be also the contemporary result of the works of Sardinian individual prominent figures such as Grazia Deledda, Nobel Prize winner for literature in 1926, Emilio Lussu, Giuseppe Dessì, Gavino Ledda, Salvatore Satta and others.

Sergio Atzeni (1952 - 1995) worked for some of the most important Sardinian newspapers. Member of the Italian Communist Party, but later disillusioned with politics, he left Sardinia and travelled across Europe. All of Atzeni's works are set in Sardinia. He used a very original language that fused elegant literary Italian and the "patter" used by the working-class in Cagliari and Sardinia. In some of his novels (e.g. Il quinto passo è l'addio and Bellas mariposas) he also used techniques akin to the magic realism style of many Southern American authors, and he has been followed by other Sardinian authors, such as Alberto Capitta, Giorgio Todde and Salvatore Niffoi, who in 2006, with the novel La vedova scalza, won the popular Campiello Prize.

Giulio Angioni (born 1939) is a leading Italian anthropologist. He is also the author of about twenty books of fiction and poetry. Angioni's best novels are considered to be Le fiamme di Toledo (Flames of Toledo), Assandira, Doppio cielo (Double sky), L'oro di Fraus (The gold of Fraus).

Salvatore Mannuzzu’s (born 1930) most successful novel is Procedura (1988, Einaudi), winner of Italy’s Viareggio’s Prize in 1989. In 2000 the director Antonello Grimaldi has 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). , with authors such as Marcello Fois and Giorgio Todde.

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