Nuorese Cultural DistrictAntonio Mura (b. 24 July 1926, Nuoro–d. 11 December 1975, Bologna) was an Italian poet and writer.
He was the son of Pietro Mura, a self-taught poet who wrote in dialect.
Antonio Mura
Description
In 1945, he earned his diploma in accounting and immediately began a degree in Maritime Economics at the Istituto Universitario Navale of Naples, which he did not complete.
He worked a variety of temporary, uninspiring jobs, including as a workers’ assistant in a car factory in Germany.
In the 1960s, he was imprisoned in Campania, accused of distributing anarchic material.
On 14 February 1963, he married Nereide Spano, with whom he had four children.
In his poetry, he wrote about his life experiences and the feelings that contributed over the course of the years to shape his identity as a man and a Sardinian.
Aware of the value of his art and also motivated by the emotional impact of the death of his father, Antonio Mura, he entered, and won, regional literary competitions, gaining considerable recognition.
In 1969, he was included in an anthology of Nuoro poets who wrote in dialect, edited by Gonario Pinna.
In 1971, he published the collection Su birde. Sas erbas, containing poems dedicated to his father, selected with the help of his friend the intellectual Raffaello Marchi.
He died unexpectedly in Bologna in 1975, just when he was beginning to devote himself exclusively to literature, both his own writing and the translation of works by poets like Eliot, Auden, Éluard, Valéry, Neruda, Pavese and Fortini.