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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1926

"for her idealistically inspired writings which with plastic clarity picture the life on her native island and with depth and sympathy deal with human problems in general"
Grazia Deledda
Grazia Deledda
(pen-name of Grazia Madesani, née Deledda)
Italy
b. 1871
(in Nuoro, Sardinia)
d. 1936
 
 
 
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