Grazia Deledda, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Grazia Deledda

Italian writer

Date of Birth: 27-Sep-1871

Place of Birth: Nuoro, Sardinia, Italy

Date of Death: 15-Aug-1936

Profession: writer, poet, playwright, novelist, prosaist

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Grazia Maria Cosima Damiana Deledda (Italian pronunciation: ['grattsja de'l?dda], Sardinian: [de'l???a]; 27 September 1871 – 15 August 1936) was an Italian writer who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926 "for her idealistically inspired writings which with plastic clarity picture the life on her native island [i.e.
Sardinia] and with depth and sympathy deal with human problems in general".
She was the first Italian woman to receive the prize.