Grazia Deledda
Grazia Deledda
Grazia Maria Cosima Damiana Deleddawas 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 and with depth and sympathy deal with human problems in general". She was the first Italian woman to receive this honor...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth27 September 1871
italian-writer later moved
We later moved to Rome, where I am presently living.
dust body legends
According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time.
volume written
I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume.