Grazia Deledda (September 27, 1871 – August 15, 1936), born in Nuoro, Sardinia, was an Italian writer whose works won her a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926. September 27 is the 270th day of the year (271st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 95 days remaining. ... 1871 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... August 15 is the 227th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (228th in leap years), with 138 days remaining. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Nuoro (Nùgoro -- literally home -- in ancient Nuoros dialect), is a town and province in central Sardinia, Italy. ... Sardinia (Sardegna in Italian, Sardigna, Sardinna or Sardinnia in the Sardinian language, Sardenya in Catalan), is the second largest island in the Mediterranean Sea (Sicily is the largest), between Italy, Spain and Tunisia, south of Corsica. ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has produced the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency. The work in this case generally refers to an authors work as a whole, not to any individual work, though individual works are sometimes... 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Biography

She was born into a numerous burgeois family, attended elementary school and then she was educated by a private tutor (a guest of one of her relatives) and moved on to study literature on her own. Literature is literally acquaintance with letters as in the first sense given in the Oxford English Dictionary (from the Latin littera meaning an individual written character (letter)). The term has generally come to identify a collection of texts, which in Western culture are mainly prose, both fiction and non-fiction...

She first published some novels on the magazine "L'ultima moda" when it still published works in prose and poetry.
Nell'azzurro, published by Trevisani in 1890 might be considered as her first work. Daniel Defoes Robinson Crusoe; title page of 1719 newspaper edition A novel (from French nouvelle, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ... A collection of magazines A magazine is a periodical publication containing a variety of articles, generally financed by advertising and/or purchase by readers. ... 1890 (MDCCCXC) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar). ...

Still between prose and poetry are, among the first works, Paesaggi sardi, published by Speirani in 1896.
In 1900, after having married Palmiro Madesani, functionary of the Ministry of War met in Cagliari in the October of 1899, the writer moved to Rome and after the publishing of Anime oneste in 1895 and of Il vecchio della montagna in 1900, plus the collaboration with magazines "La Sardegna", "Piccola rivista" and "Nuova Antologia", critics begin to get interested in her work. 1896 (MDCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1900 (MCM) is a common year starting on Monday. ... Cagliari is the capital of the island of Sardinia, an autonomous region of Italy. ... 1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Left-Wing Democrats) Area  - City Proper  1285 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2. ... 1895 (MDCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ...

In 1903 she published Elias Portulo that confirmed her as a writer and started her work as a successful writer of novels and theatrical works: Cenere (1904), L'edera (1906), Sino al confine (1911), Colombo e sparvieri (1912), Canne al vento (1913), L'incendio nell'oliveto (1918), Il Dio dei venti (1922).
Cenere was the inspiration for a movie with the famous italian actress Eleonora Duse. 1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Daniel Defoes Robinson Crusoe; title page of 1719 newspaper edition A novel (from French nouvelle, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ... 1904 (MCMIV) is a leap year starting on a Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1913 (MCMXIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed. ... Duse, Time, Jul. ...

Her work has been highly regarded by Capuana and Verga plus some younger writers such as Enrico Thovez, Pietro Pancrazi and Renato Serra. Luigi Capuana Luiggi Capuana (Mineu, Sicily 1839 - Catania 1915) was an Italian author and journalist and one the most important members of the Verism. ... Giovanni Verga (2 September 1840 - 27 January 1922) was an Italian realist writer, best known for his depictions of life in Sicily, and especially for the short story Cavalleria Rusticana. ...

Fundamentals of her work

Deledda's whole work is based on strong facts of love, pain and death upon which rests the feeling of sin and of an inevitable fatality. For other uses, see Love (disambiguation). ... Pain is an unpleasant sensation which may be associated with actual or potential tissue damage and which may have physical and emotional components. ... Death is the cessation of physical life in a living organism, or the state of the organism after that event. ...

In her works we can recognize the influence of the verism of Giovanni Verga but, sometimes, also that of the decadentism by Gabriele D'Annunzio. Verism Verism is the artistic preference of contemporary everyday materials instead of the heroic or legendary. ... Giovanni Verga (2 September 1840 - 27 January 1922) was an Italian realist writer, best known for his depictions of life in Sicily, and especially for the short story Cavalleria Rusticana. ... DAnnunzio Gabriele DAnnunzio (12 March 1863 – 1 March 1938) was an Italian poet, writer, novelist, dramatist, daredevil and war hero, who went on to have a controversial role in politics as a precursor of the fascist movement. ...

In Deledda's novels there is always a strong connection beetween places and people, feelings and environment. The environment depicted is that one harsh of native Sardinia, but it is not depicted according to regional veristic schemes neither according to the otherworldly vision by D'Annunzio, but relived through the myth. Sardinia (Sardegna in Italian, Sardigna, Sardinna or Sardinnia in the Sardinian language, Sardenya in Catalan), is the second largest island in the Mediterranean Sea (Sicily is the largest), between Italy, Spain and Tunisia, south of Corsica. ... Gabriele DAnnunzio (12 March 1863 – 1 March 1938) was an Italian poet, dramatist, daredevil and war hero, who went on to have a controversial role in politics as a precursor of the fascist movement. ... In the academic fields of mythology, mythography, and folkloristics a myth is a sacred story concerning the origins of the world or how the world and the creatures in it came to have their present form. ...

Main works

• Fior di Sardegna (1892)
• Le vie del male (1892)
• Racconti sardi (1895)
• Anime oneste (1895)
• Elias Portolu (1903)
• Cenere (1904)
• L'edera (1912)
• Canne al vento (1913)
• Marianna Sirca (1915)
• La madre (1920)
• La fuga in Egitto (1925)
• Il sigillo d'amore (1926)
• Cosima (1937) published posthumously
• Il cedro del Libano (1939) published posthumously

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External links

• Works on the Web
• Nobel Prize autobiography