Name Michele Columbu | Role Italian Politician | |
Died July 10, 2012, Cagliari, Italy | ||
Michele Columbu (8 February 1914 – 10 July 2012) was an Italian politician and writer from Ollolai, Sardinia.
For decades, between World War II and the 1970s he was the leader of Partito Sardo d'Azione (PSdAz), a Sardinian autonomist party calling for detachment from Italy and fiercely contesting the presence of NATO military bases in Sardinia. He was elected into the European Parliament in 1984.
He wrote a collection of short stories, L'aurora è lontana (1968), and the essay collection Senza un perché.
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