Flavio Soriga

Flavio Soriga ( born August 11, 1975 in Uta in Cagliari) is an Italian writer and journalist.

Life

Flavio Soriga was born in 1975 in Sardinia. After living in Naples, Bologna and London, he now lives in Rome. His first short story collection Diavoli di Nuraiò was published in 2000, in 2002 the novel was followed Neorpioggia ( The black rain). Since 2008, with Sardinia and Blues 2010 Il cuore dei Briganti are more novels.

Soriga writes Italian. He is the youngest representative of the Sardinian literary nouvelle vague, also known as the New Sardinian literature, started by Giulio Angioni, Salvatore Mannuzzu and Sergio Atzeni, after the work of prominent personalities such as Grazia Deledda, Emilio Lussu, Giuseppe Dessi, Gavino Ledda and Salvatore Satta.

Translations of his texts is available in German, English, Norwegian, Romanian, Croatian, Galician and Welsh language. As a journalist Soriga writes for the newspaper L' Unità, and various magazines. He was co- initiator of the Sardinian Literature Festival Isola delle Storie Gavoi and participates in the management of the Poetry Festival Settembre Poets of Seneghe.

Awards

  • Italo Calvino Prize 2000. Diavoli For di Nuraiò.
  • Price Grazia Deledda Giovani 2003. Neropioggia for.
  • International Literature Prize Mondello Palermo, 2008. Sardinia for blues.
  • Piero Chiara Literary Prize 2009. L' amore For a Londra e in altri luoghi. ( Love in London and elsewhere. )
  • Halma Scholarship 2010

Works

In German translation:

  • Let the dogs loose. Short story. From the Italian by Martina Kempter. Corraini, Mantua, 2003.
  • The black rain. Novel. From the Italian by Michael of Killisch horn. Luchterhand, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-630-62116-6.
  • Love in London and elsewhere. Narratives. From the Italian by Viktoria von Schirach. Luchterhand, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-630-62187-6.
  • Uta, Prague and the whole world. Essay. From the Italian by Viktoria von Schirach, Halma network 2010.
  • Sardinia blues. In: Michaela De Giorgio and Otto Kallscheuer (eds.): Sardinia - a literary invitation. Klaus Wagenbach, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-8031-1277-4. Pp. 109-114.
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