Michela Murgia

Michela Murgia
Michela Murgia
Born	Michela Murgia; 3 June 1972 (age 49); Cabras, Italy
Occupation	Novelist, Politician
Nationality	Italian
Period	2006–present
Notable works	Accabadora
Notable awards	Premio Campiello

Michela Murgia (born 3 June 1972) is an Italian novelist, playwright and radio personality. She is a winner of the Premio Campiello and the Mondello International Literary Prize.

Biography[]

Michela Murgia was born in Cabras, Sardinia on 3 June 1972. At the age of 18, she was taken in by her adoptive family as a filla de anima, a soul-child, a traditional Sardinian adoption. In contrast to the usual age of between 10 and 14 years, Murgia's adoption was delayed because of her natural father's opposition.^[1]

Murgia attended the Lorenzo Mossa Oristano institute for technical studies, and then joined the Institute of Religious Studies of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Oristano to study theology.

Murgia taught religious studies at middle and grammar schools in Oristano for six years but never finished her studies.^[2]

Career[]

Literary[]

Michela Murgia's first work, Il mondo deve sapere, was published in 2006. This was a satire on the telemarketing call centre, highlighting the economic exploitation and psychological manipulation of its workers. The book was dramatised for the stage by and starred Teresa Saponangelo. It was also filmed by Paolo Virzì, and released in 2008 as Tutta la vita davanti.^[1]

In 2008, Murgia wrote a travel book on her native Sardinia, Viaggio in Sardegna.

Murgia's 2009 novel, Accabadora, gained several awards including the Mondello International Literary Prize and the Molinello Award for First Fiction.^[3]

L'incontro, a novella, appeared in 2012.

In 2013, Murgia co-authored a book titled L'ho uccisa perché l'amavo’. Falso! with Loredana Lipperini, which tackled the issues of violence on women in Italy.

In 2016, Murgia published "Chirú," a novel about a cross generational mentoring relationship.

Columnist[]

She writes for L'Espresso; her column, which began in January 2021, is titled "L'Antitaliana" ("the anti-Italian").

Actress[]

She performed in Quasi Grazia, a Play by Marcello Fois, as Grazia Deledda.

Political[]

In the regional elections of February 2014,^[4] she stood as a candidate as part of the Possible Sardinia coalition,^[5] which aimed to achieve Sardinian independence via the ballot, similar to the Catalan and the Scottish referendums of 2014.^[5] Murgia did not get a seat; she came third in the polls, gaining 10% of the vote.^[6]

Awards and honours[]

Murgia is a member of the Società Italiana delle Letterate.^[3]

2010 - Premio Campiello
2010 -
2009 -

Bibliography[]

Novels[]

Il mondo deve sapere: Romanzo tragicomico di una telefonista precaria (Milan: Edizioni, 2006) ISBN 9788806230951
Accabadora (Turin: Einaudi, 2009) ISBN 9788866213116

L'Incontro (Turin: Einaudi, 2012) ISBN 9788806218836

Non-fiction[]

Viaggio in Sardegna: Undici percorsi nell'isola che non si vede (Turin: Einaudi, 2008) ISBN 9788806222192
‘L'ho uccisa perché l'amavo’ : Falso! (with Loredana Lipperini) (Bari: Laterza, 2013) ISBN 9788858107300
‘#Stai zitta e altre nove frasi che non vogliamo sentire più (Einaudi, 2021) ISBN 9788806249182

Works in English[]

Accabadora (Translated by Sylvester Mazzarella, Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2012) ISBN 9781444820409
How to be a fascist : a manual, New York : Penguin Books, 2020. ISBN 9780143136057

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Benedetta Verrini (September 6, 2010). "Michela Murgia si confessa". Vita.it. Archived from the original on November 26, 2014. Retrieved November 26, 2014.
^ Roberto Carnero (January 2012). "Maria oltre l'archetipo". Jesus (in Italian). XXXIV (1).
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Aureliana Di Rollo. "Michela Murgia: Biography". Institute of Modern Languages. Archived from the original on October 26, 2014. Retrieved November 26, 2014.
^ A Fight to Steer Sardinia - New York Times
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b David Forniès (January 14, 2014). "Sardinian independence must be the final outcome of a process of building a lot of freedoms". Nationalia. Retrieved November 26, 2014.
^ "Elezioni Regionali del 16 febbraio 2014". La Repubblica (in Italian).

[vita-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b Benedetta Verrini (September 6, 2010). "Michela Murgia si confessa". Vita.it. Archived from the original on November 26, 2014. Retrieved November 26, 2014.

[2] Roberto Carnero (January 2012). "Maria oltre l'archetipo". Jesus (in Italian). XXXIV (1).

[imlr-3] Jump up to: ^a ^b Aureliana Di Rollo. "Michela Murgia: Biography". Institute of Modern Languages. Archived from the original on October 26, 2014. Retrieved November 26, 2014.

[4] A Fight to Steer Sardinia - New York Times

[nationalia-5] Jump up to: ^a ^b David Forniès (January 14, 2014). "Sardinian independence must be the final outcome of a process of building a lot of freedoms". Nationalia. Retrieved November 26, 2014.

[6] "Elezioni Regionali del 16 febbraio 2014". La Repubblica (in Italian).

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Single Prize for Literature: (1975) • Achille Campanile (1976) • Günter Grass (1977)
Special Jury Prize: (1975) • Stefano D'Arrigo (1977) • (1978) • Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (1979) • Pietro Consagra (1980) • Ignazio Buttitta, (1983) • Leonardo Sciascia (1985) • (1987) • (1988) • Peter Carey, José Donoso, Northrop Frye, Jorge Semprún, Wole Soyinka, (1990) • Fernanda Pivano (1992) • (1993) • , , , , (1995) • , , , (1996) • Khushwant Singh (1997) • Javier Marías (1998) • (2001) • Luciano Erba (2002) • (2003) • (2006) • (2007) • Enrique Vila-Matas (2009) • (2010)
First narrative work: (1978) • Fausta Garavini (1979)
First poetic work: (1978) • (1979)
Prize for foreign literature: Milan Kundera (1978) • N. Scott Momaday (1979) • Juan Carlos Onetti (1980) • Tadeusz Konwicki (1981)
Prize for foreign poetry: (1978) • Joseph Brodsky (1979) • Juan Gelman (1980) • Gyula Illyés (1981)
First work: Valerio Magrelli (1980) • , Stefano Simoncelli, , Laura Mancinelli (1981) • Jolanda Insana (1982) • Daniele Del Giudice (1983) • Aldo Busi (1984) • , (1985) • , (1986) • , (1987) • Edoardo Albinati, (1988) • Andrea Canobbio, Romana Petri (1990) • (1991) • , Nelida Milani (1992) • Silvana Grasso, (1993) • (1994) • (1995) • , Tiziano Scarpa (1996) • (1997) • (1998) • (1999) • (2000) • (2001) • , (2003) • (2004) • (2005) • (2006) • (2007) • (2008) • (2009) • (2010)
Foreign author: 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) • (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) • (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)
Italian Author: Alberto Moravia (1982) • Vittorio Sereni alla memoria (1983) • Italo Calvino (1984) • Mario Luzi (1985) • Paolo Volponi (1986) • Luigi Malerba (1987) • (1988) • Giovanni Macchia (1989) • Gianni Celati, Emilio Villa (1990) • Andrea Zanzotto (1991) • Ottiero Ottieri (1992) • Attilio Bertolucci (1993) • Luigi Meneghello (1994) • , (1995) • (1996) • , Giovanni Raboni (1997) • Carlo Ginzburg (1998) • Alessandro Parronchi (1999) • Elio Bartolini (2000) • (2001) • Andrea Camilleri (2002) • , Antonio Franchini, Giorgio Pressburger (2003) • Maurizio Bettini, , Nelo Risi (2004) • pr. , sec. , ter. Giuseppe Conte (2005) • pr. , sec. Giulio Angioni (2006) • pr. Mario Fortunato, sec. , ter. (2007) • pr. Andrea Bajani, sec. Antonio Scurati, ter. Flavio Soriga (2008) • pr. , sec. , ter. Gregorio Scalise (2009) • pr. , sec. , ter. (2010) • pr. , sec. , ter. Igiaba Scego (2011) • pr. Edoardo Albinati, sec. , ter. (2012) • pr. Andrea Canobbio, sec. Valerio Magrelli, ter. (2013) • pr. , sec. , ter. (2014) • pr. Nicola Lagioia, sec. , ter. (2015) • pr. Marcello Fois, sec. , ter. Romana Petri (2016) • pr. Stefano Massini, sec. , ter. (2017)
"Five Continents" Award: 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)
"Palermo bridge for Europe" Award: Dacia Maraini (1999), Premio Palermo ponte per il Mediterraneo Alberto Arbasino (2000)
"Ignazio Buttitta" Award: (2003) • (2005) • (2006) • (2007)
Supermondello Tiziano Scarpa (2009) • Michela Murgia (2010) • (2011) • (2012) • Valerio Magrelli (2013) • (2014) • (2015) • Romana Petri (2016) • Stefano Massini (2017)
Special award of the President: Ibrahim al-Koni (2009) • (2010) • (2011)
Poetry prize: (2010)
Translation Award: (2010)
Identity and dialectal literatures award: e Marco Paolini (2010)
Essays Prize: (2010)
Mondello for Multiculturality Award: Kim Thúy (2011)
Mondello Youths Award: Claudia Durastanti (2011) • Edoardo Albinati (2012) • (2017)
"Targa Archimede", Premio all'Intelligenza d'Impresa: Enzo Sellerio (2011)
Prize for Literary Criticism: (2012) • Maurizio Bettini (2013) • (2014) • (2015) • Serena Vitale (2016) • (2017)
Award for best motivation: (2012)
Special award for travel literature: (2013)
Special Award 40 Years of Mondello: Gipi (2014)

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Michela Murgia

Born	Michela Murgia (1972-06-03) 3 June 1972 (age 49) Cabras, Italy
Occupation	Novelist, Politician
Nationality	Italian
Period	2006–present
Notable works	Accabadora
Notable awards	Premio Campiello