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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 ...
Ritratto di Grazia Deledda, di Plinio Nomellini, 1914. Nel 1887 inviò a Roma alcuni racconti (Sangue sardo e Remigia Helder), pubblicati dall'editore Edoardo Perino sulla rivista "L'ultima moda", diretta da Epaminonda Provaglio.Sulla stessa rivista venne pubblicato a puntate il romanzo Memorie di Fernanda.Nel 1890 uscì a puntate sul quotidiano di Cagliari L'avvenire della Sardegna, con lo ...
Grazia Deledda was a novelist who was influenced by the verismo (q.v.; “realism”) school in Italian literature. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926. Deledda married very young and moved to Rome, where she lived quietly, frequently visiting her native Sardinia. With little formal
Work . Grazia Deledda wrote a large collection of novels, short stories, articles, stage plays, and poems. Her first novel, Fior de Sardegna (The Flower of Sardinia), was published in 1892, and when Elias Portolu followed in 1903, it won Deledda international acclaim and gave her a broad following.
With Fior di Sardegna (The Flower of Sardinia), Deledda became famous; but in Nuoro, not even Signor Carlino’s bookstore, the magic place of her childhood, accepted her volumes. She identified with her protagonists who were created from real life, from people she either knew or had heard of. Local people, however, continued to identify these secret lovers on nightly errands — like the ...
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1926 was awarded to Grazia Deledda "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"
Jan 7, 2020 · More about Grazia Deledda. Major works. From Stella D’Oriente and Nell’azzurro, both published in 1890, through a number of posthumously published works, it would be unwieldy to list all of Deledda’s works here.See a complete listing of her works on Wikipedia.. Biographies. A Self-Made Woman: Biography of Nobel-Prize-Winner Grazia Deledda by Carolyn Balducci (1975)
From birth to the first writings Youth Grazia Deledda was born in Nuoro in 1871 from a wealthy family, the fifth of seven brothers and sisters. Immediately after primary school she began her self-taught studies and soon, very young, at the age of fifteen she wrote her first short story.
Grazia Maria Cosima Damiana Deledda 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".
Deledda, Grazia (1871–1936)Leading Sardinian writer and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926 who presented, in her most noted works, a profoundly pessimistic view of the human condition. Name variations: Gracia. Pronunciation: GRATZ-ia de-LEAD-ah. Source for information on Deledda, Grazia (1871–1936): Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia dictionary.
