Antonio Mura

Antonio Mura, son of Pedru who revolutionized Sardinian poetry in the twentieth century, was born in Nuoro in 1926.
After the war he collaborated with the magazine “Aristocrazia” directed by Raffaello Marchi. Antonio undertakes technical studies that he does not like and that will not give him economic stability, and which lead him to move to Naples. Later he emigrated to Germany where he worked as a factory worker.
He returned to Nuoro in 1951 and found a stable job in the Merchants Association. According to Duilio Caocci, “in recent years he is already a mature poet, he has achieved a confidence in writing, which allows him to make his poems public.” He participated and won the Ozieri prize. He specializes in the Sardinian translation of numerous European poets. Between 1968 and 1971 he strengthened his business until he published “Su Birde. Sas erbas”, the collection that will consecrate him in the history of Sardinian literature. He died suddenly in 1975 in Bologna.

According to Maurizio Virdis in the lyric 'Kando sor Bentulerir de Venìcia', Antonio Mura 'achieves the best results, reaching very high mythopoietic peaks, of all value. It is, you could say, a countermyth, or a negative and/or negative, anti-heroic myth, which stigmatizes the detrimental closure of insularity, with an original and unusual conception of such closure.”

According to Virdis, the Phoenician of Mura is the archetype of every foreigner who violates Sardinia because he does not understand it. This 'lack of love' transforms the sea into a wall that the Sardinian still cannot demolish.

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4/3/2025 - 19:48