The Nobel Prize in Literature 1926
Italian writer. Idealistically inspired writings picture life with clarity. With depth and sympathy deal with human problems in general. Criticize moral norms and social values, but not criticize people who are victims of circumstances. Pet crow.
Constant faith in humankind and in God
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Young Deledda. Source: Wikimedia Commons
Deledda with her husband and her son Sardus in Rome, around 1905. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Deledda portrait 1926. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Deledda portrait 1926. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Grazia Deledda portrait 1928. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Grazia Deledda's birthplace in the city, Nuoru, Sardinia. Author: Mhladn at Slovenian Wikipedia. 25 October 2013. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Maria Grazia Deledda birthplace, Sardinia. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Church which kept the remains of Grazia Deledda. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Tomb of Grazia Deledda in the Chiesa della Solitudine of Nuoro, Sardinia. 2008. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Grazia Deledda signature into a copy of Colombi e Sparvieri, Fratelli Treves, Milano, 1912. Author: Grazia Deledda. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
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Name: Grazia Deledda
Birth: 27 September 1871, Nuoro, Sardinia, Italy
Death: 27 September 1871, Nuoro, Sardinia, Italy
Residence at the time of the award: Italy
Prize Motivation: "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"
Field: Prose
Language: Italian
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