Nicola Tanda (Sorso, 22 December 1928 – London, 4 June 2016)Morti Nicola Tanda was an Italian philologist and literary critic. He studied under Ungaretti and Sapegno at Rome. He was for over thirty years professor at the University of Sassari, first specialising in Italian literature, and then later in Sardinian philology and Sardinian literature. He was a leading advocate for minority languages and their literary expression in the island of Sardinia, including the Sardinian language and Algherese Catalan. As such he was an honorary member of ANPOSDI.ANPOSDI The Italian National Association of Poets and Writers in Dialects/Associazione Nazionale Poeti e Scrittori Dialettali founded in 1953 to preserve/archive the voices and memories of traditional Italian dialects. ANPOSDI He wrote the new Philology of ItaliansF.Brevini, La letteratura degli italiani, Milan, Feltrinelli, 2010 based on the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. He was founder and president of the Sardinian PEN Club.The Sardinian PEN Centre has a website He was president of the jury of the Premio OzieriOzieri - the venue of the prize has a website . For a history of the Premio Ozieri see: here literary prize founded in 1956 to promote new works composed in Sardinian tongues. He founded in 2003 the Centre for Study of Sardinian Philology.The Centre for Study of Sardinian Philology has a website As an editor/director he has guided the publication of over 100 volumes written in Sardinian languages.
He was an expert of the literary theory of 19th-century Italian authors as well as an authoritative voice on many modern and contemporary Italian writers including Pratolini, Montale, Gramsci, Dessì, Deledda, Pirandello, Pandolfo Collenuccio, Monti, Sebastiano Satta, Salvatore Farina, Antonino Mura Ena, and Salvatore Satta. In 1965 he co-edited with Dessì Narratori di Sardegna the first compilation of Sardinian writers.
He was a member of the International Association for the Study of Italian Language and Literature.International Association for the Study of the Italian Language and Literature website He was an external associate of the International Centre For Multilingualism.International Centre For Multilingualism/Centro Internazionale sul Plurilinguismo website
Bibliography with G. Dessì, Narratori di Sardegna, Milan, Mursia, 1965Sardinian Narrators/Narratori di Sardegna Google Books with Joyce Lussu, Fronti e frontiere, Milan, Mursia, 1969Fronts and frontiers/Fronti e frontiere Google Books Realta' e memoria nella narrativa contemporanea, Rome, Bulzoni, 1970Reality and Memory in Contemporary Narrative/Realta' e memoria nella narrativa contemporanea Google Books Contemporanei: proposte di lettura, Turin, Loescher, 1972Contemporary: recommended readings/Contemporanei: proposte di lettura Google Books Classicismo e illuminismo nell'opera del Monti, Sassari, Dessì, 1974 Pandolfo Collenuccio: il dramma della saviezza, Rome, Bulzoni, 1988Pandolfo Collenuccio: the drama of "wisdom"/Pandolfo Collenuccio: il dramma della saviezza Google Books Letteratura e lingue in Sardegna, Sassari, EDES, 1991Literature and language in Sardinia/Letteratura e lingue in Sardegna Google Books Dal mito dell'isola all'isola del mito: Deledda e dintorni, Rome, Bulzoni, 1992From the myth of the island to the island of myth: Deledda and around/Dal mito dell'isola all'isola del mito: Deledda e dintorni Google Books with G.Dessì, Eleonora d'Arborea: racconto drammatico in quattro atti, Sassari, EDES, 1995Eleonora of Arborea: dramatic tale in four acts/Eleonora d'Arborea: racconto drammatico in quattro atti Google Books Un' odissea de rimas nobas: verso la letteratura degli italiani, Cagliari, CUEC, 2003An Odyssey of rimas nobas: into the literature of the Italians/Un' odissea de rimas nobas: verso la letteratura degli italiani Google Books Text in pdf Quale Sardegna?: pagine di vita letteraria e civile, Sassari, Delfino, 2007What Sardinia?: essays on literary and civil life/Quale Sardegna?: pagine di vita letteraria e civile Google Books Hispanic Intertextuality in Contemporary Sardinian Poetry in AnnalSS 6, 2009. Lost in Translation. Testi e culture allo specchio, Text in English in pdf
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