Grazia Deledda

Grazia Deledda (September 27, 1871—August 15, 1936) was a Sardinian writer whose works won her a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926. Born in Nuoro, Sardinia, into a bourgeois family, she attended elementary school and then was educated by a private tutor (a guest of one of her relatives) and moved on to study literature on her own. She first published some novels on the magazine L'ultima moda when it still published works in prose and poetry. Nel... more

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  • Sep 27, 1871

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  • Aug 15, 1936 (age 64 years)

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  • 1926
  • "for her idealistically inspired writings which with plastic clarity picture the life on her native island and with depth and sympathy deal with human problems in general"
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