Who’s who in Sardinia
Sardinia has been the birthplace of Grazia Deledda, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926.
But many other personalities came from Sardinia:
– Antonio Segni and Francesco Cossiga, presidents of Italian Republic;
– politicians Antonio Gramsci and Enrico Berlinguer;
– journalists Giuseppe Fiori, Salvatore Sechi, Mario Sechi
– authors Salvatore Satta, Emilio Lussu, Marcello Fois, Sergio Atzeni, Gavino Ledda, Salvatore Niffoi, Bianca Pitzorno and Michela Murgia
– painters Mario Sironi
– musicians Paolo Fresu and Andrea Parodi
– singers Maria Carta and Piero Marras
– showgirl Elisabetta Canalis
Source Wikimedia Commons:
Maria Carta Fondazione di Sardegna
Paolo Fresu Di Svíčková – Opera propria, CC BY-SA 3.0,
Wikipedia, unknown source: Antonio Gramsci