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title = "Maria Chessa Lai"
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# Biography

Maria Chessa Lai (born 1922 in Monti, Italy, died 2012 in Alghero, Italy) was a poet[1][2] 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. She was the mother of the journalist, academic, and author Pasquale Chessa.