Angelo Cherchi was born on 2nd August 1951, in Iglesias. He started to write in 1969 for some local newspapers as L’unione Sarda, La Nuova Sardegna and La Gazzetta del lunedì in Sassari. His writing style comes from an experimental idea of art, where plastic-art, music and theatre languages are mixed in an unique language. During the seventies he was in Paris where he met such as writers: Jacquès Prevert, Jean Paul Sartre, Simone De Beauvoir and other great personalities as M.me Achard (President du Centre A. Dumas and friend of the great playwriter Marcel Achard), and Pierre Dux (Directeur de la Comedie Française).
Angelo Cherchi, pesnik s Sardinije, je letosnji dobotnik Kristala Vilenice.
Sardinci so ponosno ljudstvo, tako kot slovenici.
Marjan Slobez,
DELO - SLOVENIJA
ANGELO, KI GA VODIJO ANGELI
Za nagrado Kristal Vilenica 99 se je sicer potegovalo 28 avtorjev, petčlanska žirija pod vodstvom Gunnarja Hansona pa se je soglasno odločila za sardinskega pesnika Angela Cherchia, čigar poezija je prevedena v več jezikov, najdemo pa jo tudi v angleški antologiji založbe Penguin.
Irena Brejc,
GLASS ISTRE, CROATIA
UN ANGELO IN SLOVENIA
Angelo Cherchi,vince il premio letterario sloveno "Grand Vilenica" che negli anni Ottanta fu conferito anche al grande Milan Kundera.
Cinzia Serra,
LA NUOVA SARDEGNA
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Right after winning the Literary Prize Vilenica Slovenia - 1999