Salvatore S. Nigro
The Crolla Amato Gadda Prize
Best Published Scholarly Work on Gadda
Panel 1 Judge
Salvatore Nigro graduated from the University of Catania and taught at the Universities of Catania, New York, Yale, Indiana, Sorbonne and the École Normale Superiéur, Paris. He is currently Professor of Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa.
Nigro was editor of vol. 3, part 2, of Letteratura Italiana. Storia e testi (1972) directed by Carlo Muscetta for Laterza. He also contributed to Letteratura italiana directed by Alberto Asor Rosa for Einaudi, and to Romanzo, directed by Franco Moretti again for Einaudi. He is Editor in Chief at Sellerio Publishers and collaborates to Sole 24 Ore, Sunday edition. In 2002 he was awarded a degree Honoris Causa by Chicago University.
His books include: Le brache di San Griffone. Novellistica e predicazione tra Quattrocento e Cinquecento, preface by E. Sanguineti (Laterza, 1983); La tabacchiera di don Lisander (Einaudi, 1996); L'orologio di Pontormo (Rizzoli, 1998); Leonardo Sciascia scrittore editore (Sellerio, 2003); L’anima del volto (with Tullio Pericoli) (Bompiani, 2005); L’arte del risvolto (Sellerio, 2007); Miroirs ècrits, Introduzione a Gesualdo Bufalino (Musée d'ombres, Cahiers de l'Hôtel de Galliffet, 2008); Preface to Le Provinciali by Blaise Pascal (Einaudi, Biblioteca della Pléiade, 2008).
Nigro has also edited the following: Torquato Accetto, Della dissimulazione onesta (Einaudi, 1997); Alessandro Manzoni, I romanzi (Mondadori, I Meridiani, 2002, 3 vols); 9 books by Mario Soldati for Sellerio between 2004 and 2008; Andrea Camilleri, Romanzi storici e civili (Mondadori, I Meridiani, 2004); Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Viaggio in Europa (Mondadori, 2006); Giuseppe Bonaviri, Il sarto della stradalunga (Sellerio, 2006) and La divina foresta (Sellerio 2008); Giorgio Bassani, I promessi sposi. Un esperimento (Sellerio, 2007); Giorgio Maganelli, Vita di Samuel Johnson (Adelphi, 2008).
