Salvatore Niffoi

Salvatore Niffoi, conference room of Biblioteca Delfini, Modena in 2008Salvatore Niffoi (born 1950, in Orani, Sardinia) is an Italian writer.

Niffoi is a representative of the so-called Sardinian Literary Nouvelle Vague, or Sardinian Literary Spring, i.e., the Sardinian narrative of today, which was initiated by Giulio Angioni, Salvatore Mannuzzu and Sergio Atzeni, following the work of individual prominent figures such as Grazia Deledda, Emilio Lussu, Giuseppe Dessì, Gavino Ledda, Salvatore Satta. His prose is mostly a mixture of the Italian and Sardinian languages.

Niffoi lives in Orani, a small village of Barbagia, in the province of Nuoro, where he was a middle-school teacher until 2006. He started his career as a novelist in 1997, with his first work, Collodoro. In 2006, with the novel La vedova scalza he won the Campiello Prize.

Works Collodoro, Solinas, 1997 Il viaggio degli inganni, Il Maestrale, 1999 Il postino di Piracherfa, Il Maestrale, 2000 Cristolu, Il Maestrale, 2001 La sesta ora, Il Maestrale, 2003 La leggenda di Redenta Tiria, Adelphi, 2005 La vedova scalza, Adelphi, 2006 Ritorno a Baraule, Adelphi, 2007 L'ultimo inverno, Il Maestrale, 2007 Collodoro, Adelphi, 2008 Il pane di Abele, Adelphi, 2009 Paraìnas – Detti e parole di Barbagia, Adelphi, 2009 Il bastone dei miracoli, Adelphi, 2010 Il lago dei sogni, Adelphi, 2011 I malfatati: romanzi 1999–2007, Il Maestrale, 2011 Pantumas, Feltrinelli, 2012 Il venditore di metafore, Giunti Editore, 2017