Grazia Deledda Ph.D.
Grazia Deledda Ph.D.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1926
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Name: Grazia Deledda
Birth: 27 September 1871, Nuoro, Sardinia, Italy
Death: 15 August 1936 Rome, Italy
Residence at the time of the award: Italy
Prize Motivation: “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”
Field: Prose
Language: Italian
Italian writer. Idealistically inspired writings picture life with clarity. With depth and sympathy deal with human problems in general. Criticize moral norms and social values, but not criticize people who are victims of circumstances. Pet crow.
Constant faith in humankind and in God
Biography
Books
Humor/Quotations
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Humor/Quotations
Humor
Deledda’s brother Santus did scientific experiments. He successfully launched a hot-air balloon made of silk. Goat herders believed it to be the Holy Spirit descending over a mountaintop. Soon after they dropped to their knees in prayer.
Quotations
- Archbishop Nathan Söderblom’s address at the Nobel banquet delighted the retiring author Deledda in a particular way, because he addressed her in Italian, and she could not forget his words: “In your literary work, all roads lead to the human heart…You have seen the road sign.”
- Deledda’s statement: – As the philosopher says: If your son is writing poems, send him to the mountain paths; the next time you may punish him; but the third time, leave him alone, because then he is a poet.
- Deledda’s statement: According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time.