Marcello Fois
Italian writer
Marcello Fois (born 20 January 1960) is an Italian writer.[1] He was born in Nuoro in Sardinia and studied at the University of Bologna. His first novel Ferro Recente was published in 1989. A prolific author, he has also written scripts for radio, TV, film and theatre. He has won numerous prizes, including:
- 1992 – Premio Italo Calvino for Picta
- 1997 – Premio Dessì for Nulla
- 1998 – Premio Scerbanenco for Sempre caro
- 2002 – Premio Fedeli for Dura madre
- 2007 – Premio Lama e trama
- 2007 – Premio Super Grinzane Cavour for Memoria del vuoto
- 2007 – Premio Volponi for Memoria del vuoto
- 2007 – Premio Alassio Centolibri - Un Autore per l'Europa for Memoria del vuoto
Fois is considered to be a leading proponent of the "New Sardinian Literature" movement.
Selected works
- Sempre caro, 1998 – The Advocate (trans. Patrick Creagh) 2003
- Memoria del vuoto, 2006 – Memory of the Abyss (trans. Patrick Creagh) 2012
- Stirpe, 2009 – Bloodlines (trans. Silvester Mazzarella) 2014
- Nel tempo di mezzo, 2012 – The Time in Between (trans. Silvester Mazzarella) 2018
- Luce perfetta, 2015 – Perfect Light (trans. Silvester Mazzarella) 2020
- Del dirsi addio, 2017 - Valse Triste (trans. Richard Dixon) 2021 [2]
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Recipients of the Mondello Prize
- Bartolo Cattafi (1975)
- Achille Campanile (1976)
- Günter Grass (1977)
- Denise McSmith (1975)
- Stefano D'Arrigo (1977)
- Yury Trifonov (1978)
- Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (1979)
- Pietro Consagra (1980)
- Ignazio Buttitta, Angelo Maria e Ela Ripellino (1983)
- Leonardo Sciascia (1985)
- Wang Meng (1987)
- Mikhail Gorbachev (1988)
- Peter Carey, José Donoso, Northrop Frye, Jorge Semprún, Wole Soyinka, Lu Tongliu (1990)
- Fernanda Pivano (1992)
- Associazione Scrittori Cinesi (1993)
- Dong Baoucum, Fan Boaci, Wang Huanbao, Shi Peide, Chen Yuanbin (1995)
- Xu Huainzhong, Xiao Xue, Yu Yougqnan, Qin Weinjung (1996)
- Khushwant Singh (1997)
- Javier Marías (1998)
- Francesco Burdin (2001)
- Luciano Erba (2002)
- Isabella Quarantotti De Filippo (2003)
- Marina Rullo (2006)
- Andrea Ceccherini (2007)
- Enrique Vila-Matas (2009)
- Francesco Forgione (2010)
- Carmelo Samonà (1978)
- Fausta Garavini (1979)
- Giovanni Giuga (1978)
- Gilberto Sacerdoti (1979)
- Milan Kundera (1978)
- N. Scott Momaday (1979)
- Juan Carlos Onetti (1980)
- Tadeusz Konwicki (1981)
- Jannis Ritsos (1978)
- Joseph Brodsky (1979)
- Juan Gelman (1980)
- Gyula Illyés (1981)
- Valerio Magrelli (1980)
- Ferruccio Benzoni, Stefano Simoncelli, Walter Valeri, Laura Mancinelli (1981)
- Jolanda Insana (1982)
- Daniele Del Giudice (1983)
- Aldo Busi (1984)
- Elisabetta Rasy, Dario Villa (1985)
- Marco Lodoli, Angelo Mainardi (1986)
- Marco Ceriani, Giovanni Giudice (1987)
- Edoardo Albinati, Silvana La Spina (1988)
- Andrea Canobbio, Romana Petri (1990)
- Anna Cascella (1991)
- Marco Caporali, Nelida Milani (1992)
- Silvana Grasso, Giulio Mozzi (1993)
- Ernesto Franco (1994)
- Roberto Deidier (1995)
- Giuseppe Quatriglio, Tiziano Scarpa (1996)
- Fabrizio Rondolino (1997)
- Alba Donati (1998)
- Paolo Febbraro (1999)
- Evelina Santangelo (2000)
- Giuseppe Lupo (2001)
- Giovanni Bergamini, Simona Corso (2003)
- Adriano Lo Monaco (2004)
- Piercarlo Rizzi (2005)
- Francesco Fontana (2006)
- Paolo Fallai (2007)
- Luca Giachi (2008)
- Carlo Carabba (2009)
- Gabriele Pedullà (2010)
- Alain Robbe-Grillet (1982) • Thomas Bernhard (1983) • Adolfo Bioy Casares (1984) • Bernard Malamud (1985) • Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1986) • Doris Lessing (1987) • V. S. Naipaul (1988) • Octavio Paz (1989) • Christa Wolf (1990) • Kurt Vonnegut (1991) • Bohumil Hrabal (1992) • Seamus Heaney (1993) • J. M. Coetzee (1994) • Vladimir Voinovich (1995) • David Grossman (1996) • Philippe Jaccottet (1998) • Don DeLillo (1999) • Aleksandar Tišma (2000) • Nuruddin Farah (2001) • Per Olov Enquist (2002) • Adunis (2003) • Les Murray (2004) • Magda Szabó (2005) • Uwe Timm (2006) • Bapsi Sidhwa (2007) • Viktor Yerofeyev (2009) • Edmund White (2010) • Javier Cercas (2011) • Elizabeth Strout (2012) • Péter Esterházy (2013) • Joe R. Lansdale (2014) • Emmanuel Carrère (2015) • Marilynne Robinson (2016) • Cees Nooteboom (2017)
- Alberto Moravia (1982)
- Vittorio Sereni alla memoria (1983)
- Italo Calvino (1984)
- Mario Luzi (1985)
- Paolo Volponi (1986)
- Luigi Malerba (1987)
- Oreste del Buono (1988)
- Giovanni Macchia (1989)
- Gianni Celati, Emilio Villa (1990)
- Andrea Zanzotto (1991)
- Ottiero Ottieri (1992)
- Attilio Bertolucci (1993)
- Luigi Meneghello (1994)
- Fernando Bandini, Michele Perriera (1995)
- Nico Orengo (1996)
- Giuseppe Bonaviri, Giovanni Raboni (1997)
- Carlo Ginzburg (1998)
- Alessandro Parronchi (1999)
- Elio Bartolini (2000)
- Roberto Alajmo (2001)
- Andrea Camilleri (2002)
- Andrea Carraro, Antonio Franchini, Giorgio Pressburger (2003)
- Maurizio Bettini, Giorgio Montefoschi, Nelo Risi (2004)
- pr. Raffaele Nigro, sec. Maurizio Cucchi, ter. Giuseppe Conte (2005)
- pr. Paolo Di Stefano, sec. Giulio Angioni (2006)
- pr. Mario Fortunato, sec. Toni Maraini, ter. Andrea Di Consoli (2007)
- pr. Andrea Bajani, sec. Antonio Scurati, ter. Flavio Soriga (2008)
- pr. Mario Desiati, sec. Osvaldo Guerrieri, ter. Gregorio Scalise (2009)
- pr. Lorenzo Pavolini, sec. Roberto Cazzola, ter. (2010)
- pr. Eugenio Baroncelli, sec. Milo De Angelis, ter. Igiaba Scego (2011)
- pr. Edoardo Albinati, sec. Paolo Di Paolo, ter. Davide Orecchio (2012)
- pr. Andrea Canobbio, sec. Valerio Magrelli, ter. Walter Siti (2013)
- pr. Irene Chias, sec. Giorgio Falco, ter. Francesco Pecoraro (2014)
- pr. Nicola Lagioia, sec. Letizia Muratori, ter. Marco Missiroli (2015)
- pr. Marcello Fois, sec. Emanuele Tonon, ter. Romana Petri (2016)
- pr. Stefano Massini, sec. Alessandro Zaccuri, ter. Alessandra Sarchi (2017)
- Kōbō Abe, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Germaine Greer, Wilson Harris, José Saramago (1992)
- Kenzaburō Ōe (1993)
- Stephen Spender (1994)
- Thomas Keneally, Alberto Arbasino (1996)
- Margaret Atwood, André Brink, David Malouf, Romesh Gunesekera, Christoph Ransmayr (1997)
- Dacia Maraini (1999)
- Alberto Arbasino (2000)
- Nino De Vita (2003)
- Attilio Lolini (2005)
- Roberto Rossi Precerotti (2006)
- Silvia Bre (2007)
- Tiziano Scarpa (2009)
- Michela Murgia (2010)
- Eugenio Baroncelli (2011)
- Davide Orecchio (2012)
- Valerio Magrelli (2013)
- Giorgio Falco (2014)
- Marco Missiroli (2015)
- Romana Petri (2016)
- Stefano Massini (2017)
- Ibrahim al-Koni (2009)
- Emmanuele Maria Emanuele (2010)
- Antonio Calabrò (2011)
- Antonio Riccardi (2010)
- Evgenij Solonovic (2010)
- Gialuigi Beccaria e Marco Paolini (2010)
- Marzio Barbagli (2010)
- Kim Thúy (2011)
- Claudia Durastanti (2011)
- Edoardo Albinati (2012)
- Alessandro Zaccuri (2017)
- Enzo Sellerio (2011)
- Salvatore Silvano Nigro (2012)
- Maurizio Bettini (2013)
- Enrico Testa (2014)
- Ermanno Cavazzoni (2015)
- Serena Vitale (2016)
- Antonio Prete (2017)
- Simona Gioè (2012)
- Marina Valensise (2013)
- Gipi (2014)
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