Gavino Ledda
Gavino Ledda ( born December 30, 1938 in Siligo, Sassari Province, Sardinia ) is an Italian writer.
- Padre Padrone 2.1
- 2.2 Lingua di falce
- 2.3 Other works
Life
Childhood
With 6 years Gavino was brought in as the first-born after only a few weeks from the primary school and forced by his patriarchal father to herd of sheep on the pastures of the family in Baddevrústana. Later, the father brought the whole family to the cottage on a sheep and since now also the brother was used for herding sheep, Gavino had besides still do all imaginable other hard, agricultural activities. At age 18, he was, like almost all young people emigrate from the village, but his father had denied the signature, so that the still minors was forced to stay.
The Army as a first detachment of the reign of the Father
1958 ( age 20 ), he enlisted in the military service and took it still quickly testing the fifth year of primary school after which it was allowed to exist also, since the military took so many strong young men as possible. In the military service on the mainland it was because of his poor knowledge of Italian and the miserable education always an outsider. Due to incorrect specification in the screening he came to Cecchignola in a radio technology school, where he was completely overwhelmed by the demands of natural science field course. Another student helped him, however, and with his insatiable thirst for knowledge, he also managed to pass the tests of radio technology. He then completed a training NCO. Next he learned in the barracks in Rieti for the consideration of the third middle school class that he was in Pisa in 1961. In May 1962, he signed his resignation from the army, because he did not want his " hangman of the society ", " standing against the poor and the shepherds ." Now he returned to Siligo, where he was constantly in dispute with his father, as it equated the intended path of learning with laziness and Drückebergertum.
Further education
Therefore, he decided to once again go to the Italian mainland to enroll there in Salerno at a boarding school, where he was also active as an educator, to keep costs relatively low. Because of poor diet he got a duodenal ulcer and decided to cure in Siligo it, which it did after a few months. The following year he passed the examination for the upper classes of the Humanist Azuni High School in Sassari, although he had only autodidactic prepared. Then Ledda worked again in Siligo with agriculture. From 1 October 1963, he went daily to the Azuni High School to Sassari and was there in 1964 the matriculation examination with an average of 8 of max. 10 points. Finally, in semester 1965/1966, he began his philology studies in Rome.
Academic career
In 1969 he succeeded his PhD at the University of Rome. From 1970 he worked at the Accademia della Crusca together (Society for the Care of the Italian language ) with Giacomo Devoto. From 1971 he worked as an assistant for Romance Philology and Sardinian linguistics at the University of Cagliari. By 1978 he had a job as Glottologieassistent at the University of Cagliari and Sassari then.
Freelance work in their future lives
After his huge success with his autobiography Ledda was, you still a writer, director and actor in the film Ybris, which also showed an excerpt from his life.
Later Ledda moved back to his home village Siligo, where he works as a freelance writer and farmer in a house in the Via Vittorio Emanuele.
In October 2005, Ledda sought from the local authorities to protect the area around Baddevrústana, the pasture land of his childhood, when there took place several buildings and garbage was dumped. On 17 December the same year shots were fired at his house in the evening, which pierced the door and destroyed a display case in the hallway. Ledda, who watched the news in front of his fireplace, was not injured. He had announced that he will not let themselves be intimidated them, because he believed in justice, love nature and therefore ask to be respected.
Gavino Ledda 2006 won the Premio Nonino in the category Literature. The contract awarded since 1977 prize is awarded to works that tell of the rural life and rural culture. The award was made on 28 January 2006.
For several years, Ledda is working to find the right language for a story entitled " The pace of nature." He also plans a story entitled " Il tempo del minore ", which is a general look at the problem of children who were brought by the compulsion to work to her childhood.
Works
Padre Padrone
Since the summer of 1970 Gavino Ledda wrote to draft his autobiography, 1972-1974 he worked on the final version of the story. In 1975, the first part of his autobiography under the title Padre Padrone at Feltrinelli was published, the book described his life stretch of 1944 until 1962. The novel was still in 1975 awarded the prestigious literary prize Premio Viareggio, sold in Italy more than 1.5 million times and was translated into 40 languages - 1978 he appeared as My Father, My Lord in German. The film adaptation of the book by the brothers Vittorio and Paolo Taviani 1977 he won the Golden Palm in Cannes. The book marked a turning point in the history of the Sardinian stories - with the exception of Grazia Deledda there is no Sardinian author who has read so much around the world.
Lingua di falce
In 1977, at the Feltrinelli continuation Lingua di falce, which was translated in 1980 as The language of sickle into German. This book is the narrative time less long ( only 1962-1966 ), but Ledda brings a more socially critical considerations and Sardinian are many stories again, he had been told in the village.
Other works
- In his avant -garde autobiographical film Ybris (1984 ) Gavino Ledda is playing itself The film was awarded the Premio Nuovo cinema.
- Poetry collection Aurum Tellus ( Scheiwiller 1991)
- Amendment I Cimenti Dell'Agnello ( Scheiwiller 1995)