Nelida Milani

Nelida Milani (born Pula, 1939), who also publishes under the name Nelida Milani Kruljac, is an Istrian Italian writer and professor of linguistics and semantics from Croatia. Milani was awarded the Premio Mondello in 1992 for Una valigia di cartone. Jointly with Anna Maria Mori, she was the recipient of the Rapallo Carige Prize for Bora in 1999. In 2022 she was awarded the Pula City Citizens Award.

Life Milani was born and lives in Pola. Pola was part of Yugoslavia but after the fall of Tito, it is now part of Croatia. Milani was a professor of linguistics and semantics and head of the Department of Italian at the Faculty of Humanities at the Juraj Dobila University of Pula. She was the editor-in-chief of the magazine La Battana.

Awards Milani was awarded the Premio Mondello in 1992 for Una valigia di cartone ('A cardboard suitcase'). Jointly with Anna Maria Mori, Milani was the recipient of the Rapallo Carige Prize for Bora in 1999. In 2022 Milani was nominated unanimously by the Assembly of the Italian Community of Pula for the 2022 Pula City Citizens Award.