Grazia Deledda

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Grazia Deledda
Grazia Deledda 1926.jpg
Born (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 award(s) Nobel Prize in Literature
1926

Grazia Deledda (27 September 1871 – 15 August 1936) was an Italian writer whose works won her the Nobel Prize for Literature for 1926.

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Biography [edit]

Born in Nuoro, Sardinia into a middle-class family, she attended elementary school and then was educated by a private tutor (a guest of one of her relatives) and moved on to study literature on her own.

She first published some novels in 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.

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 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, her work began to gain critical interest.

In 1903 she published Elias Portolu that confirmed her as a writer and started her work as a successful writer of novels and theatrical works: Cenere (1904), L'edera (1908), Sino al confine (1911), Colombo e sparvieri (1912), Canne al vento (1913) -her most well known book in Italy-, L'incendio nell'oliveto (1918), Il Dio dei venti (1922).

Cenere was the inspiration for a movie with the famous Italian actress Eleonora Duse.

She died in Rome at the age of 64.

Her work has been highly regarded by Luigi Capuana and Giovanni Verga plus some younger writers such as Enrico Thovez, Pietro Pancrazi, Renato Serra, and later until today by Sardinian writers such as Sergio Atzeni and Giulio Angioni.

Work [edit]

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.

In her works we can recognize the influence of the verism of Giovanni Verga and, sometimes, also that of the decadentism by Gabriele D'Annunzio.

In Deledda's novels there is always a strong connection between 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.

Main works [edit]

With her husband and son, Rome circa 1905

See also [edit]

References [edit]

  • Attilio Momigliano, Intorno a Grazia Deledda, in Ultimi studi, Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1954.
  • Emilio Cecchi, Grazia Deledda, in Prosatori e narratori, in Storia della letteratura italiana, Il Novecento, Milano, Garzanti, 1967.
  • Antonio Piromalli, Grazia Deledda, Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1968.
  • Natalino Sapegno, Prefazione a Romanzi e novelle, Milano, Mondadori, 1972.
  • Giulio Angioni, Grazia Deledda, l'antropologia positivistica e la diversità della Sardegna, in Grazia Deledda nella cultura contemporanea, Nuoro, 1992, 299-306; Introduzione, Tradizioni popolari di Nuoro, Bibliotheca sarda, Nuoro, Ilisso, 2010.

Voice Recording [edit]

The voice of Grazia Deledda speaking (in Italian) at the Nobel Prize Ceremony in 1926.

External links [edit]

Library resources
About Grazia Deledda
By Grazia Deledda
Nobel Laureates in Literature (1926–1950)
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