Italian philologist and literary critic (1928–2016)
Nicola Tanda (Sorso, 22 December 1928 – London, 4 June 2016)[1][2] 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.[3]
He wrote the new Philology of Italians[4] based on the
European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.
He was founder and president of the Sardinian
PEN Club.[5]
He was president of the jury of the Premio Ozieri[6] literary
prize founded in 1956 to promote new works composed in Sardinian tongues.
He founded in 2003 the Centre for Study of Sardinian Philology.[7]
As an editor/director he has guided the publication of over 100 volumes written in Sardinian languages.
He was a member of the International Association for the Study of Italian Language and Literature.[8]
He was an external associate of the International Centre For Multilingualism.[9]
Bibliography
with G. Dessì, Narratori di Sardegna, Milan, Mursia, 1965[10]
with Joyce Lussu, Fronti e frontiere, Milan, Mursia, 1969[11]
Realta' e memoria nella narrativa contemporanea, Rome, Bulzoni, 1970[12]
Contemporanei: proposte di lettura, Turin, Loescher, 1972[13]
Classicismo e illuminismo nell'opera del Monti, Sassari, Dessì, 1974
Pandolfo Collenuccio: il dramma della saviezza, Rome, Bulzoni, 1988[14]
Letteratura e lingue in Sardegna, Sassari, EDES, 1991[15]
Dal mito dell'isola all'isola del mito: Deledda e dintorni, Rome, Bulzoni, 1992[16]
with G.Dessì, Eleonora d'Arborea: racconto drammatico in quattro atti, Sassari, EDES, 1995[17]
Un' odissea de rimas nobas: verso la letteratura degli italiani, Cagliari, CUEC, 2003[18]
Quale Sardegna?: pagine di vita letteraria e civile, Sassari, Delfino, 2007[19]
Hispanic Intertextuality in Contemporary Sardinian Poetry in AnnalSS 6, 2009. Lost in Translation. Testi e culture allo specchio,
Text in English in pdf
^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.
ANPOSDIArchived 2011-07-22 at the
Wayback Machine(in Italian)
^F.Brevini, La letteratura degli italiani, Milan, Feltrinelli, 2010
^
Ozieri - the venue of the prize has a
website(in Italian).
For a history of the Premio Ozieri see:
here(in Italian)
^The Centre for Study of Sardinian Philology has a
website(in Italian)
^International Association for the Study of the Italian Language and Literature
websiteArchived 2011-07-22 at the
Wayback Machine(in Italian)
^
International Centre For Multilingualism/Centro Internazionale sul Plurilinguismo
websiteArchived 2011-07-22 at the
Wayback Machine(in Italian)
^Sardinian Narrators/Narratori di SardegnaGoogle Books
^Fronts and frontiers/Fronti e frontiereGoogle Books
^Reality and Memory in Contemporary Narrative/Realta' e memoria nella narrativa contemporaneaGoogle Books
^Contemporary: recommended readings/Contemporanei: proposte di letturaGoogle Books
^Pandolfo Collenuccio: the drama of "wisdom"/Pandolfo Collenuccio: il dramma della saviezzaGoogle Books
^Literature and language in Sardinia/Letteratura e lingue in SardegnaGoogle Books
^From the myth of the island to the island of myth: Deledda and around/Dal mito dell'isola all'isola del mito: Deledda e dintorniGoogle Books
^Eleonora of Arborea: dramatic tale in four acts/Eleonora d'Arborea: racconto drammatico in quattro attiGoogle Books
^An Odyssey of rimas nobas: into the literature of the Italians/Un' odissea de rimas nobas: verso la letteratura degli italianiGoogle BooksText in pdfArchived 2011-10-06 at the
Wayback Machine
^What Sardinia?: essays on literary and civil life/Quale Sardegna?: pagine di vita letteraria e civileGoogle Books