Grazia Deledda

Grazia Deledda (1871-1936) was born in Nuoro, in Sardinia, on 27 September 1871, the daughter of Giovanni Antonio Deledda, a landowner, and Francesca Cambosu. She attended only elementary school and was then educated through reading and a few private lessons. She published her first stories very young in newspapers and magazines. Married in 1900 to Palmiro Madesani, a civil servant, she settled with him in Rome. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1926 and died in Rome in August 1936.

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• NovelElias PortoluGrazia Deledda · 1903LiteraturePublic domain