Nicola Tanda is an Italian

Italy

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 philologist, literary critic and writer

Writer

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A native of Sardinia

Sardinia

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, he studied under Ungaretti

Giuseppe Ungaretti

Giuseppe Ungaretti was an Italian modernist poet, journalist, essayist, critic and academic. A leading representative of the experimental trend known as Ermetismo , he was one of the most prominent contributors to 20th century Italian literature. Influenced by symbolism, he was briefly aligned...

 and Sapegno at Rome. He was
for over thirty years professor at the University of Sassari

Sassari

Sassari is an Italian city. It is the second-largest city of Sardinia in terms of population with about 130,000 inhabitants, or about 300,000 including the greater metropolitan area...

 first specialising in Italian literature

Italian literature

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and then later in Sardinian philology and Sardinian literature.
He is a leading advocate for minority language

Minority language

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s and their literary expression in the island of Sardinia

Sardinia

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including the Sardinian language

Sardinian language

Sardinian is a Romance language spoken and written on most of the island of Sardinia . It is considered the most conservative of the Romance languages in terms of phonology and is noted for its Paleosardinian substratum....

 and Algherese Catalan.
As such he is an honorary member of ANPOSDI.
He originated the new Philology of Italians based on the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages

European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages

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He is founder and President of the Sardinian
PEN Club

International PEN

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He is President of the jury of the Premio Ozieri literary
prize founded in 1956 to promote new works composed in Sardinian tongues.
He founded in 2003 the Centre for Study of Sardinian Philology.
As an editor/director he has guided the publication of over 100 volumes written in Sardinian languages.

He is an expert of the literary theory of nineteen century Italian authors as well as
an authoritative voice on many modern and contemporary Italian writers including
Pratolini

Vasco Pratolini

Vasco Pratolini was one of the most noted Italian writers of the twentieth century.Born in Florence, Pratolini worked at various jobs before entering the literary world thanks to his acquaintance with Elio Vittorini. In 1938 he founded, together with Alfonso Gatto, the magazine Campo di Marte...

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Montale

Eugenio Montale

Eugenio Montale was an Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975.- Early years :...

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Gramsci

Antonio Gramsci

Antonio Gramsci was an Italian writer, politician, political philosopher, and linguist. He was a founding member and onetime leader of the Communist Party of Italy and was imprisoned by Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime...

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Dessì,
Deledda

Grazia Deledda

Grazia Deledda was an Italian writer whose works won her the Nobel Prize for Literature for 1926.-Biography:...

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Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello was an Italian dramatist, novelist, and short story writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934, for his "bold and brilliant renovation of the drama and the stage." Pirandello's works include novels, hundreds of short stories, and about 40 plays, some of which are written...

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Pandolfo Collenuccio,
Monti

Vincenzo Monti

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Sebastiano Satta,
Salvatore Farina

Salvatore Farina

Salvatore Farina was an Italian novelist whose style of sentimental humor has been compared to that of Charles Dickens....

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Antonino Mura Ena, and
Salvatore Satta.
In 1965 he co-edited with Dessì Narratori di Sardegna the first compilation of Sardinian writers.

He is a member of the International Association for the Study of Italian Language and Literature.
He is an external associate of the International Centre For Multilingualism.