Sardinian Literary Spring

New Sardinian literature or Nouvelle Vague is a term from the field of literature from Sardinia about the eighties of the twentieth century. The term refers to the work of authors and sometimes filmmakers and theater professionals that deal with the same themes, genres and styles, and often have Sardinia and its history to the object. The New Sardinian literature makes use of not only Italian but also the Sardinian language and other linguistic varieties of Sardinia: Galluresisch, Catalan and Genoese. Such works had international success and has been translated into several languages.

There are other terms such as " spring " or "New Wave".

Authors

The New Sardinian literature began, according to a joint statement with the trio Giulio Angioni, Sergio Atzeni and Salvatore Mannuzzu. After that, many other authors, such as Marcello Fois, Salvatore Niffoi, Alberto Capitta, Giorgio Todde, Michela Murgia, Flavio Soriga, Milena Agus, Francesco Abate, Nicola Lecca, including the writer for children Bianca Pitzorno, Bruno Tognolini and Alberto Melis, known.

The new Sardinian literature eingeschãtzt ( at European level) as the result of the work of earlier authors such as Grazia Deledda (Nobel Prize for Literature 1926), Emilio Lussu, Giuseppe Dessi, Gavino Ledda, Salvatore Satta, Maria Giacobbe and Giuseppe Fiori.

Reception of the phenomenon New Sardinian literature

The phenomenon is, though not always positively judged. They give many of today's authors the opportunity to position themselves in the global world with a post-colonial attitude. Be seen negative forms of Selbstexotismus, namely the use of ethnic stereotypes about Sardinia, to meet the real or perceived expectations of the reader. So the novels by Salvatore Niffoi and Michela Murgia play in an archaic and mythical Sardinia, where magic and other " vorzivilisatorische " conditions prevail.