Maria Chessa Lai
Maria Chessa Lai (born 1922 in Monti, Italy, died 2012 in Alghero, Italy) was a poet[1][2] writing in the Catalan Algherese dialect. She was three times winner of the Premio Ozieri awarded annually for the best new poetry written in a Sardinian minority language. As a bilingual poet she published her poems simultaneously in Algherese and Italian. The majority of her work was collected together and published in the volume La Mia Mar in 2005. She was the mother of the journalist, academic, and author Pasquale Chessa.[3]
Cover of Maria Chessa Lai's book Sea of Mine
Bibliography
- La Mia Mar, Edes, Sassari, 2005 [4]
Notes
- Celebrated in her home city 2012
- Italian newspaper article 2012
- "Premi in trasferta per Alghero Donna". Alguer.it. Retrieved 2020-04-25.
- La Mia Mar/Sea Of Mine Google Books
External links
- http://www.luigiladu.it/poesias/Elenco_poeti/chessa_lai_maria.htm Biography and poetry in original languages.
- http://fch.uniss.it/pen/Prizes/PortNimfeu.html Trilingual version of the prize winning Bay of Nymphs
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