Grazia Deledda (1871 to 1936) was an Italian writer awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926 for writing the Nobel committee described as idealistically inspired, portraying with plastic clarity the life of her native Sardinia and treating human problems generally with depth and sympathy. She was the first Italian woman to receive the prize and only the second woman of any nationality to win it, after Selma Lagerlof in 1909.
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AwardNobel Prize in Literature 1 Classification
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How did Grazia Deledda begin publishing?
She sent a short story to a fashion magazine, then published her first novel in 1892 and had her first real success with Elias Portolu in 1903.
In the autobiographical note she wrote for the Nobel Prize, Grazia Deledda says she did not know where to take her stories, found a fashion magazine, sent off a short story, and saw it published immediately. Her first novel, Fior di Sardegna (Flower of Sardinia, 1892), went to an editor in Rome, who published it with considerable success. She names Elias Portolu (1903) as her first real success.
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1871-09-27
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1936-08-15
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27 September 1871
Biography
La chiesa della solitudine (The Church of Solitude, 1936)
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Nobel Prize in Literature 1926
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Grazia Deledda (1871 to 1936) was an Italian writer awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926 for writing the Nobel committee described as idealistically inspired, portraying with plastic clarity the life of her native Sardinia and treating human problems generally with depth and sympathy.
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