The Sardinian writer Michela Murgia passed away yesterday on the night of San Lorenzo due to a cancer that she had decided to make public to bear her testimony of struggle. Here is our memory and tribute.
Michela Murgia
Born in Cabras on June 3, 1972 Michela Murgia was an Italian writer, blogger, playwright, presenter, literary critic and commentator. She has dealt with theater and TV, appearing as a guest on national networks. She won i press Campiello, Dessì and SuperMondello with the most loved novel that tells about Sardinia and the cruelty of life entitled "Accabadora".
Before dedicating herself to literature, she carried out other professions that enriched her: religion teacher in schools and manager of a thermoelectric plant, telephone operator in call centres. She has always fought as an activist for the recognition of rights. She has never refrained from proclaiming her theses and positions so much as to often bicker with some prominent political figures in government today and to have been the subject of controversy for her outings.
In May she had decided to publicly tell about her last months of life after discovering, a few years ago, that she was suffering from a stage four cancer who has increasingly tried and devastated her in body but not in soul. She has always shown strength, determination and tenacity as expressed in her latest novel "Three bowls. Rituals for a year of crisisi“, released last spring. She wanted to demonstrate her strength and respond with a tangible testimony to the much love received. That's why she decided to share everything on social media, especially suffering.
After withdrawing from public commitments in June due to the worsening of his condition, in mid-July he married "in article mortis” (that is to say in the imminence of a life threatening) the actor, director and musician Lorenzo Terenzi, also in that case recounting those moments through social networks.
Writing and style
Michela Murgia was one of the most influential writers on the Italian scene and the best known and most appreciated Sardinian author together with the Nobel Prize winner Grazia Deledda. Like her, the Murgia tells of her land of her, Sardinia to which she has always remained tied. Her versatile writing could not be enclosed in easy stereotypes. Michela Murgia's novels are not simple stories, but analyze reality from always different points of view. Her most beautiful and shocking book is Accabadora of 2009 in which he tells the ancestral figure of the woman who, in the small towns of some areas of Sardinia, was called by the relatives of the terminally ill to put an end to their suffering. the writer deals with sensitive issues such as those delicate and burning for that period, such as that relating to adoption and euthanasia in the history of little Maria.
A multifaceted figure that we will miss a lot!
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