Grazia Deledda

Italian novelist (1871-1936)

  • Fame73.6
  • Momentum4.4
  • Italy rank#145
Source-basedStable
  • Fame73.6
  • Momentum4.4
  • Italy rank#145
  • Writers rank#241
  • Wikipedia24.4K
Lived 1871–1936, aged 65Italy
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    98 languages
    Cross-language footprint
  • Rank in Italy
    #145
    Writers
  • Era
    1871–1936
    Aged 65
  • Known for
    Ashes
    1917
Summary
Updated 2026-06-08

She wrote Sardinia — its isolation, its passions, its silences — into the canon of world literature, and in 1926 became the first Italian woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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Grazia Maria Cosima Damiana Deledda was born on 27 September 1871 in Sardinia, an island whose landscape and people would become the bedrock of her fiction. She wrote with what the Nobel committee called "plastic clarity," rendering the life of her native island in prose that was both intensely local and universal in its treatment of human struggle. Her work captured isolation, tradition, and the weight of fate with depth and sympathy. In 1926 she received the Nobel Prize for Literature, the first Italian woman so honored and only the second woman ever, following Selma Lagerlöf in 1909. She co…

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Historical24.9
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Source confidence65.0
Completeness75.0
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