Tuesday, June 11, 2024
The Oristano author Savina Dolores Massa will be the protagonist of the meeting hosted tomorrow – 12 June – by the Unla cultural services centre, during which she will present the book “Why the wind was black”, set in the city.
The appointment is at 6pm: they will talk with the author Anna Maria Capraro, Angela Simbula and the director of Unla Marcello Marras.
Published by “Il Maestrale”, the novel tells the human story of the nuns and orphans who populated the seventeenth-century villa that belonged to Vandalino Casu, converted into an orphanage.
What changes everything is a train accident, in which children fleeing on the tracks near the building were killed. Tomaso and Lisabè are the only survivors and will have to open the eyes of the rest of the world to the matter.
Savina Dolores Massa was born and lives in Oristano. She is a writer of fiction, poetry, plays, director, singer and cultural operator, she runs creative writing workshops and preparatory courses for oral reading.
He has collaborated for years with the mental health centre, the municipal library and the cultural services center of his city.
He is present in numerous anthologies of short stories and poems. With “Il Maestrale” he published the novels: Undici (2008, shortlisted for the 2007 Calvino Prize); My Daughter Folly (2010, translated into France); Hot Ash at Midnight (2013); The Chariot of Thespis (2016); An Escaped Carnation Was Named After Me (2019); Drop chandeliers (2020); Voltami (2022), winner of the Festival dell’Altrove – Giulio Angioni – 2023 Literary Prize. Also published by Il Maestrale were the stories Ogni madre (2012) and the two poetic collections: To assassinate you – Piacere we are spettri (2016); And now ask yourself why you were left alone (2021).
In 2023, the illustrated story “The blue man and the roses” was published by Imago Edizioni. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in Alghero”.
