Nicola Tanda (Sorso, 22 December 1928 – London, 4 June 2016) was an Italian philologist and literary critic.He studied under Ungaretti and Sapegno at Rome. He wasfor over thirty years professor at the University of Sassari, first specialising in Italian literature,and then later in Sardinian philology and Sardinian literature. He was a leading advocate for minority languages and their literary expression in the island of Sardinia, including the Sardinian language and Algherese Catalan.As such he was an honorary member of ANPOSDI.He wrote the new Philology of Italians based on the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.He was founder and President of the SardinianPEN Club. He was President of the jury of the Premio Ozieri literaryprize founded in 1956 to promote new works compo