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Grazia Deledda
 
Date of birth: 27 September 1871
Date of death: 15 August 1936
Country Of Origin: Italy
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    Grazia Deledda (September 27, 1871 Nuoro, Sardinia – August 15, 1936) was an Italian people writer whose works won her a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926. /b>

She was born into a bourgeois family, attended elementary school and then she 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 on the magazine "L'ultima moda" when it still published works .... (More...)
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" According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time. "

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" After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper. "

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" But I came across a fashion magazine. I took the address and sent off a short story. It was immediately published. "

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" I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume. "

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" I was born in the little town of Nuoro in Sardinia in 1871. "

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" In 1900 I took my first trip. It was to Cagliari, the beautiful Sardinian capital. There I met my husband. "

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" My father was a fairly well-to-do landowner who farmed his own land. He was also a hospitable man and had friends in all of the towns surrounding Nuoro. "

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" We later moved to Rome, where I am presently living. "

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" When these friends and their families had to come to Nuoro on business or for religious holidays, they usually stayed at our house. Thus I began to know the various characters of my novels."

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