Grazia Deledda
Grazia Deledda ( born September 27, 1871 in Nuoro, Sardinia, † August 15, 1936 in Rome) was an Italian writer and Nobel laureate of literature of the year 1926.
Life
Grazia Deledda was born into a wealthy family. Even as a young girl, she received language training. 1886 appeared in Sardinian newspaper stories and poems by the only 15 years old Grazia Deledda. She married in 1897 Palmiro Madesani. He was a civil servant in the War Office, and she lived with him from 1900 onwards, and their two sons in Rome. There, their first novels published. For this she received the 1926 Nobel Prize for Literature. After the seizure of Mussolini she presented her work in his service, which greatly diminished their fame in the immediate postwar period.
Grazia Deledda died on August 15, 1936 in Rome at the age of 64 years.
Work
She was one of the most important writers of naturalism within the Italian literature. In her works, she depicts the hard life of the Sardinian people.
Deleddas books are fate novels, which often have women as central characters who are crushed in conflicts over honor, faith and social prejudices.
Scene of her later works is Italy, but always with link to their homes. In 1926 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. The Nobel Committee awarded her the prize " for their borne by idealism works that describe with vividness and clarity to life on her native island and treat human problems with depth and warmth in general. "
Awards and honors
Works
- Nell'Azzurro (1890)
- La regina delle tenebre (1892 )
- Fior di Sardegna ( 1892)
- Racconti sardi (1895 ); Sardinian stories E.Müller - Röder (1914 )
- Anime oneste (1895 ); Honest souls, German Friedrich Maibach (1895 )
- La via del male (novel, 1896); Zia Maria, German Hans- Norbert stroke (1996 )
- Il tesoro (1897 )
- L' ospite (1897 )
- La giustizia (1899 )
- Le tentazioni (1899 )
- Il vecchio della montagna (1900)
- Elias Portolu (1900 ); Elias Portolu, dt E. Berling (1906 ) The mask of the priest, revised translation by Christine Mrowietz and Susanne Eversmann (1989 )
- Dopo il Divorzio (1902 );
- Cenere (1903 ); Ash, dt E. Berling (1907 )
- I Giuochi della vita (1905 )
- Nostalgia (1905 ); Homesickness, dt C. F. von Vincenti (1912 )
- Il vecchio della montagna (novel); The Old Man of the Mountain, dt E. Müller- Roeder (1906 )
- Amori modernized (1907 )
- L' ombra del passato (1907 )
- Il nonno (1908 )
- L' edera (1908 ); The ivy
- Il nostro padrone (1910 )
- Sino al confine (1910 ); Push the Limit (1919)
- Nel deserto (1911 ); In the Desert ( 1913)
- Chiaroscuro ( novella, 1912)
- Colombi e Sparvieri (novel, 1912)
- Canne al vento (1913 ); Reeds in wind, GV Bruno Goetz (1951) and reed in the wind, German Theodor gap (1930 )
- Le colpe altrui (1914 )
- Marianna Sirca (1915 ); Marianne Sirca, dt F. Gasbara (1938 )
- Il fanciullo nascosto (1916 )
- L' incendio nell'uliveto (1918 )
- La madre (novel, 1920); The mother, dt Frida Schanz (1922 )
- Naufraghi in porto (1920 ); Shipwrecked in the harbor, German Theodor gap (1929 )
- Cattive compagnie ( 1921)
- Il segreto dell'uomo solitario ( 1921)
- Il Dio dei Viventi (1922 )
- Il flauto nel bosco (1923 )
- La danza della collana (1924 )
- La fuga in Egitto (1925 ); The Flight into Egypt, dt emergency (1928 )
- Il sigillo d' amore (1926 )
- Anna Lena Bilsini (novel, 1927)
- Murgronan (1927 )
- Il vecchio e i fanciulli (1928 )
- La casa del poeta (1930 )
- Il dono di Natale (1930 )
- Il paese del vento (1931 )
- La vigna sul mare ( 1932)
- Sole d'estate (1933 )
- L' argine (1934 )
- La chiesa della solitudine (1936 )
- Cosima ( memoirs, posthumously in 1937 ); Cosima, the youth a poet, (1937 )
- Lebanese Cedar Tree (1939 posthumous)
- Anime oneste (1940 posthumous)