Writer, born in Nuoro, Sardinia, Italy. She had no formal education, and took inspiration from Sardinian life for her novels and short stories, including Elias Portolu (1903), Cenere (1904), L'edera (1906), Canne al vento (1913), and Marianna Sirca (1915). They combine elements from both the verismo and decadents movements and from popular literature to create an ambience infused with strong passions, death, and religion. She received the Nobel prize for literature in 1926.
Grazia Deledda (September 27, 1871 Nuoro, Sardinia – August 15, 1936) was an Italian writer whose works won her a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926.
She first published some novels on 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 of 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", critics begin to get interested
in her work.
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
(1906), Sino al confine (1911), Colombo e sparvieri (1912), Canne al vento (1913), L'incendio nell'oliveto (1918), Il Dio dei venti (1922).
Cenere was the inspiration for a movie with the famous Italian actress Eleonora Duse.
Fundamentals of her work
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.
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