Michele Columbu is an Italian politician

Politician

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 and writer

Writer

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 from Ollolai

Ollolai

Ollolai is a comune at the center of Barbagia, in the province of Nuoro .It is the main town of the Barbagia di Ollolai.-Notable people:*Michele Columbu, leader of Partito Sardo d'Azione...

, Sardinia

Sardinia

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.

For decades, between World War II

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 and the 1970s he was the leader of Partito Sardo d'Azione (PSdAz), Sardinian autonomist party claiming for detachment from Italy and fiercely contesting the presence of NATO military bases in Sardinia. He was elected into the European Parliament

European Parliament

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in 1984.

He wrote a collection of short stories, L'aurora è lontana (1968), and the essay collection Senza un perché.