Alberto Capitta
Alberto Capitta is an Italian writer.
Biography
Alberto Capitta currently lives and works in Sassari as an actor and playwright. His novel Creaturine was finalist for the Strega Prize, one of Italy's most influential and controversial literary awards.
In 2006 he received the prize Lo Straniero, "as one of the most interesting writers of an extraordinary Sardinian flowering", namely of the Sardinian Literary Spring, started in the late eighties of the last century by a group of young writers including Marcello Fois and others, Salvatore Mannuzzu and Sergio Atzeni, after the works of individual figures such as Grazia Deledda, Emilio Lussu, Giuseppe Dessì, Gavino Ledda, Salvatore Satta.Works
- Il cielo nevica, Guaraldi 1999; Il Maestrale 2007
- Creaturine, Il Maestrale 2004 ; Il Maestrale / Frassinelli 2005
- Il giardino non-esiste, Il Maestrale 2008
- Alberi erranti e naufraghi, Il Maestrale 2013
- L'ultima trasfigurazione di Ferdinand, Il Maestrale 2016
