Grazia Deledda
1871–1936
Biography
Grazia Deledda was an Italian novelist, born in Nuoro in Sardinia in September 1871 into a well-off family. She was the fourth of seven children. Her formal schooling stopped at the elementary years, and for a time she was taught by a private tutor; after that she read widely on her own. While still a girl she began writing short novels, and at the age of thirteen her first story appeared in a local journal. She later lived in Rome, where she died on 15 August 1936.
Her fiction is set mostly in Sardinia and draws on the lives of its peasants and herdsmen, their hardships, customs and passions. Her best-known novels include Elias Portolu, Cenere and Canne al vento.
In 1926 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The prize committee praised the idealism of her work, the vivid picture it gives of life on her native island and its sympathy for human problems in general. She was the first Italian woman to receive the prize and only the second woman to do so, after Selma Lagerlöf in 1909. The site holds her Dopo il divorzio, which readers can set beside the Sardinian novels that first made her name.
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Books
Dopo il divorzio
by Grazia Deledda
In a Sardinian village, Giovanni Era is sentenced to prison for a murder he says he did not commit. His young wife Giovanna, poor and pressed by her mother, makes use of a new divorce law, a choice that sets the village and her own conscience against her.
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