Maria Chessa Lai, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Maria Chessa Lai

Italian-Spanish poet

Date of Birth: 15-Feb-1922

Place of Birth: Monti, Sardinia, Sardinia, Italy

Date of Death: 07-Feb-2012

Profession: writer, poet

Nationality: Spain, Italy

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Maria Chessa Lai (born 1922 in Monti, Italy, died 2012 in Alghero, Italy) was a poet writing in the Catalan Algherese dialect.
She was three times winner of the Premio Ozieri awarded annually for the best new poetry written in a Sardinian minority language.
As a bilingual poet she published her poems simultaneously in Algherese and Italian.
The majority of her work was collected together and published in the volume La Mia Mar in 2005.