Grazia Deledda
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Grazia Deledda was an Italian novelist who lived from 1871 to 1936 and became one of the major literary figures of her time. She is significant in Italian literature for her novels that often explored the lives and struggles of people in her native Sardinia, earning her recognition as an important voice in late 19th and early 20th-century fiction.
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- Born
- 1871
- Died
- 1936
- Works
- 626
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- Canne al vento
- Le tentazioni
- Il vecchio e i fanciulli
- Annalena Bilsini
- Il vecchio della montagna
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Grazia Maria Cosima Damiana Deledda ( Italian: [ˈɡrattsja deˈlɛdda]; Sardinian: Gràssia or Gràtzia Deledda [ˈɡɾa(t)si.a ðɛˈlɛɖːa]; 27 September 1871 – 15 August 1936) was an Italian writer who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926 "for her idealistically inspired writings which with plastic clarity picture the life on her native island [i.e. Sardinia] and with depth and sympathy deal with human problems in general". She was the first Italian woman to receive the prize, and only the second woman in general after Selma Lagerlöf was awarded hers in 1909.
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