Background
Milena Agus was born in Genova to Sardinian parents.
Milena Agus was born in Genova to Sardinian parents.
She is one of the leading novelists in the so-called Sardinian Literary Spring which began in the 1980s and which includes other international names such as Michela Murgia. She lives and works in Cagliari, where previously she taught Italian and History at the Meucci Technical Institute. She then moved to teaching at the creative school in Cagliari called Fois Fois.
She is a practitioner of the "New Sardinian Literature".
Her first novel, While the Shark is Sleeping (Nottetempo, 2005) had two reprints within as many months, but it was Mal di Pietre (From the Land of the Moon in English) which brought her to the attention of a wide audience. Translated into five languages, it was a bestseller in France, where it rose to international fame.