Michela Murgia

Writer

Italian writer from Sardinia, author of the novel Accabadora (winner of Premio Dessì, the Campiello and the Supermondello) and of the political pamphlet Istruzioni per Diventare Fascisti (Einaudi).

Michela Murgia is a Sardinian Italian writer known for the novel Accabadora and for public engagement in political debate. Accabadora received the Premio Dessì, the Premio Campiello and the Supermondello. Istruzioni per Diventare Fascisti was published by Einaudi. She writes both fiction and political essays.

DeBaser hosts two English-language reviews of Michela Murgia. One praises Accabadora for its moral intensity and Sardinian roots; the other describes Istruzioni per Diventare Fascisti as a sharp, ironic political provocation aimed at contemporary Italian politics.

For:Readers of contemporary Italian literature, people interested in Sardinian fiction and political essays about fascism and democracy.

 Buy it, don't borrow it. It's one of those books that should be read and re-read, even at the cost of opening memories and soul wounds that still burn when they are evoked...

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 Those who build walls, those who limit solidarity to their own, those who pit one against the other to control both, those who limit civil liberties, those who deny migration rights with the weapon of law and the alibi of responsibility, these are the fascists today.

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