Grazia Deledda

Grazia Deledda
Deledda in 1926
Native name	Gràssia Deledda Gràtzia Deledda
Born	Grazia Maria Cosima Damiana Deledda (1871-09-27)27 September 1871 Nuoro, Italy
Died	15 August 1936(1936-08-15) (aged 64) Rome, Italy
Occupation	Writer, novelist
Literary movement	Realism, Decadence
Notable awards	Nobel Prize in Literature 1926
Spouse	Palmiro Madesani ​ (m. 1900)​
Children	Sardus Madesani (1901–1938) Francesco Madesani (1904–1981)
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Grazia Maria Cosima Damiana Deledda (Italian: [ˈɡrattsja deˈlɛdda]; Sardinian: Gràssia or Gràtzia Deledda^[1][2] [ˈɡɾa(t)si.a ðɛˈlɛɖːa]; 27 September 1871 – 15 August 1936) was an Italian writer who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926^[3] "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".^[4] She was the first Italian woman to receive the prize, and only the second woman in general after Selma Lagerlöf was awarded hers in 1909.^[5]