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Grazia Deledda

1871 - 1936

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Grazia Maria Cosima Damiana Deledda (Italian pronunciation: [ˈɡrattsja deˈlɛdda]; 27 September 1871 – 15 August 1936), also known in Sardinian language as Gràssia or Gràtzia Deledda (pronounced [ˈɡɾa(t)si.a ðɛˈlɛɖːa]), 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 270,704 page views. Her biography is available in 92 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 88 in 2019). Grazia Deledda is the 469th most popular writer (up from 526th in 2019), the 587th most popular biography from Italy (up from 625th in 2019) and the 38th 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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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Grazia Deledda ranks 469 out of 5,755Before her are Enheduanna, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Henry IV of Castile, René Guénon, Wolfram von Eschenbach, and Jacques Hébert. After her are William Makepeace Thackeray, Octavio Paz, Boris Vian, Savitribai Phule, Jules Michelet, and William S. Burroughs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Grazia Deledda ranks 14Before her are Pietro Badoglio, Guangxu Emperor, Baroness Mary Vetsera, Victor Grignard, Albert Lebrun, and Ioannis Metaxas. After her are Elena of Montenegro, Lesya Ukrainka, Heinrich Mann, Theodore Dreiser, Giacomo Balla, and Georges Rouault. Among people deceased in 1936, Grazia Deledda ranks 18Before her are Eleftherios Venizelos, Albert Fish, G. K. Chesterton, Alexander Glazunov, Miguel de Unamuno, and Fuad I of Egypt. After her are Premchand, José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Louis Blériot, Hans von Seeckt, Ottorino Respighi, and Karl Kraus.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Grazia Deledda ranks 587 out of 4,668Before her are Piero the Unfortunate (1472), Domenico Cimarosa (1749), Gallienus (218), Giuliano de' Medici, Duke of Nemours (1479), Lucullus (-118), and Umberto Nobile (1885). After her are Kurt Schuschnigg (1897), Pope Silverius (490), Franco Zeffirelli (1923), Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (1510), Matilda of Tuscany (1046), and Maria Luisa of Spain (1745).

Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Grazia Deledda ranks 38Before her are Pietro Aretino (1492), Propertius (-50), Tibullus (-50), Elena Ferrante (1943), Ennius (-239), and Livius Andronicus (-280). After her are Statius (40), Baldassare Castiglione (1478), Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896), Francesca da Rimini (1259), Fausto Cercignani (1941), and Giacomo Leopardi (1798).