Nicola Tanda (Sorso, 22 December 1928 – London, 4 June 2016)[1][2] was an Italian philologist and literary critic.
[3] He wrote the new Philology of Italians[4] based on the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.
[5] He was president of the jury of the Premio Ozieri[6] literary prize founded in 1956 to promote new works composed in Sardinian tongues.
He was an expert of the literary theory of 19th-century Italian authors as well as an authoritative voice on many modern and contemporary Italian writers including Pratolini, Montale, Gramsci, Dessì, Deledda, Pirandello, Pandolfo Collenuccio, Monti, Sebastiano Satta, Salvatore Farina, Antonino Mura Ena, and Salvatore Satta.
In 1965 he co-edited with Dessì Narratori di Sardegna the first compilation of Sardinian writers.