Sardinian Literary Spring

Sardinian Literary Spring is a definition of the whole body of the new Sardinian literature of about the three decades starting with the 1980s.

Sardinian Literary Spring, aka Sardinian Literary Nouvelle Vague, is a denomination normally used to describe the literary works written by many Sardinian authors, starting from about the 1980s. It is described as being formed of novels and other written texts (and sometimes also of cinema, theatre and other works of art), which often share stylistic and thematic constants. They form a kind of fiction with features that derive mainly, but not only, from the Sardinian, Italian and European context and history.

The Sardinian Literary Spring is considered to be one of the most remarkable regional literatures in Italian, but sometimes also written in one of the minority languages within Sardinia (i. e. in the Sardinian language and in other linguistic varieties spoken in this island, namely Corsican, Catalan and Genoese).

The definition of 'spring' or 'nouvelle vague' or plainly 'new Sardinian literature' is due to the new quality, quantity and international success of many works published by these Sardinian authors, translated in many world languages.

The Sardinian Literary Spring has been started, according to a mostly shared canonical opinion, by a trio formed of 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, in the European arena, 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.

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