Distretto Culturale del Nuorese
Nuoro still holds the prize for being the hometown of the only Italian woman to have – so far — won the Nobel Prize in Literature: Grazia Deledda, in far-off 1926.
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Distretto Culturale del Nuorese
An especially watchful presence on the Sardinian and Italian intellectual scene is Marcello Fois (Nuoro, 1960), who debuted in 1992 with Ferro recente and Picta (Premio Italo Calvino) and published, six years later, in 1998, Sempre Caro, the first in a trilogy that also includes Sangue dal cielo (1999) and L’altro mondo (2002) and the main character of which is none other than Sebastiano Satta, in a fictionalised tale that goes beyond noir to offer a snapshot of Nuoro between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. An award-winning novelist as well as poet, essayist and playwright (his play Quasi Grazia, published in 2016, was staged with Michela Murgia in the starring role), Fois was also the co-founder, along with Giulio Angioni, Giorgio Todde and Michela Murgia, of the Isola delle Storie, an important literature festival held each year in Gavoi.