Grazia Deledda

Grazia Deledda is the best-known Sardinian writer in the world, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926. He was born in Nuoro on September 27, 1871 to a wealthy family. He provided for his cultural formation, dedicating himself to the reading of the most diverse works, from the Bible to the novels of Enrico Costa, to the great foreign authors of the time.

Between alternating financial fortunes and dramatic family events, in 1892 Deledda began collaborating with the “Journal of Italian Popular Traditions” directed in Bologna by Francesco de Gubernatis.

His first stories and short stories are reported in newspapers and magazines, arousing the admiration of the public and of first-rate writers. She marries Palmiro Madesani and moves to Rome. This is the happiest and most fruitful moment of his production of novels: “Elias Portolu” (1903), “Ash” (1904), “Ivy” (1906), “Chiarouro” (1912), “Pigeons and Sparviers” (1912), “Rods in the Wind” (1913), “Marianna Sirca” (1915), “The Fire in the Olive Grove” (1918), and “The Mother” (1920).

To crown the writer's efforts, in 1926, was the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature. In the following ten years, Deledda continues to dedicate herself to writing other successful novels, short stories and short stories. He died in Rome on August 15, 1936. His work is considered important for its ability to describe, with narrative effectiveness and stylistic coherence, events related both to contemporaneity and to the peculiarities of Sardinia, without concessions to verism of fashion.

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