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Grazia Deledda

1871 - 1936

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Grazia Maria Cosima Damiana Deledda (Italian: [ˈɡrattsja deˈlɛdda]; Sardinian: Gràssia or Gràtzia Deledda [ˈɡɾa(t)si.a ðɛˈlɛɖːa]; 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". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Grazia Deledda has received more than 296,947 page views. Her biography is available in 98 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 92 in 2019). Grazia Deledda is the 374th most popular writer (up from 468th in 2019), the 493rd most popular biography from Italy (up from 586th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Italian Writer.

Grazia Deledda was a writer from Sardinia who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926. She is most famous for her novel, "The House by the Medlar Tree," which tells the story of a poor woman who struggles to support her family.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Grazia Deledda ranks 374 out of 7,302. Before her are Alphonse de Lamartine, Ennius, Octavio Paz, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Tulsidas, and Lucy Maud Montgomery. After her are Enheduanna, Theocritus, Arthur de Gobineau, Julio Cortázar, Georges Bataille, and Sergei Yesenin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Grazia Deledda ranks 11. Before her are Alexander Scriabin, Karl Liebknecht, Paul Valéry, Guangxu Emperor, Pietro Badoglio, and Baroness Mary Vetsera. After her are Albert Lebrun, Heinrich Mann, Victor Grignard, Lesya Ukrainka, Elena of Montenegro, and Ioannis Metaxas. Among people deceased in 1936, Grazia Deledda ranks 15. Before her are Oswald Spengler, Alexander Glazunov, Lev Kamenev, Ferdinand Tönnies, Grigory Zinoviev, and Fuad I of Egypt. After her are Eleftherios Venizelos, Miguel de Unamuno, Albert Fish, Elsa Einstein, G. K. Chesterton, and Premchand.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Grazia Deledda ranks 493 out of 5,161. Before her are Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909), Bohemond I of Antioch (1054), Ennius (-239), Antonello da Messina (1430), Lavinia Fontana (1552), and Ornella Muti (1955). After her are Franco Nero (1941), Theocritus (-315), Queen Paola of Belgium (1937), Francesco I Sforza (1401), Berengar I of Italy (850), and Paolo Maldini (1968).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Grazia Deledda ranks 30. Before her are Marcus Terentius Varro (-116), Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863), Ludovico Ariosto (1474), Lorenzo Valla (1407), Christine de Pizan (1365), and Ennius (-239). After her are Theocritus (-315), Cornelius Nepos (-100), Elena Ferrante (1943), Pietro Aretino (1492), Edmondo De Amicis (1846), and Giacomo Leopardi (1798).

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