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Grazia Deledda

1871 - 1936

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Grazia Maria Cosima Damiana Deledda (Italian: [ˈɡrattsja deˈlɛdda]; Sardinian: Gràssia or Gràtzia Deledda [ˈɡɾa(t)si.a ðɛˈlɛɖːa]; 27 September 1871 – 15 August 1936) was an Italian writer who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926 "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". 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Grazia Deledda is the 251st most popular writer (up from 374th in 2019), the 367th most popular biography from Italy (up from 493rd in 2019) and the 19th most popular Italian Writer.

Grazia Deledda was a writer from Sardinia who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926. She is most famous for her novel, "The House by the Medlar Tree," which tells the story of a poor woman who struggles to support her family.

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Among writers, Grazia Deledda ranks 251 out of 7,302. Before her are W. H. Auden, Gerhart Hauptmann, C. S. Lewis, Mansur Al-Hallaj, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and Osamu Dazai. After her are Henrik Pontoppidan, Dario Fo, Johanna Spyri, Joseph Heller, Nikos Kazantzakis, and Jaroslav Hašek.

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Among people born in 1871, Grazia Deledda ranks 6. Before her are Rosa Luxemburg, Marcel Proust, Ernest Rutherford, Alexander Scriabin, and Friedrich Ebert. After her are Victor Grignard, Karl Liebknecht, Guangxu Emperor, Pietro Badoglio, Paul Valéry, and Albert Lebrun. Among people deceased in 1936, Grazia Deledda ranks 8. Before her are Ivan Pavlov, Maxim Gorky, Federico García Lorca, Rudyard Kipling, Lu Xun, and Róbert Bárány. After her are Henry Louis Le Chatelier, Luigi Pirandello, Lev Kamenev, Oswald Spengler, Ferdinand Tönnies, and Grigory Zinoviev.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Grazia Deledda ranks 367 out of 5,161. Before her are Pope Stephen I (200), Matteo Ricci (1552), Pietro Parolin (1955), Pope Symmachus (460), Dino Zoff (1942), and Michelangelo Antonioni (1912). After her are Riccardo Muti (1941), Gianni Versace (1946), Dario Fo (1926), Giambattista Vico (1668), Tommaso Campanella (1568), and Herod Agrippa II (28).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Grazia Deledda ranks 19. Before her are Guillaume Apollinaire (1880), Catullus (-84), Carlo Goldoni (1707), Torquato Tasso (1544), Pliny the Younger (61), and Juvenal (50). After her are Dario Fo (1926), Primo Levi (1919), Sallust (-86), Ludovico Ariosto (1474), Marcus Terentius Varro (-116), and Luigi Pirandello (1867).

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