Grazia Deledda

Grazia Deledda (born September 27, 1871 in Nuoro , Sardinia , † August 15, 1936 in Rome ) was an Italian writer and 1926 Nobel Prize winner for literature.

Life

Grazia Deledda came from a wealthy family. As a young girl she received language lessons. In 1886 stories and poems by Grazia Deledda, who was only 15 years old, appeared in Sardinian newspapers. She married Palmiro Madesani in 1897. He was a civil servant in the Ministry of War, and from 1900 she lived with him and their two sons in Rome. After Mussolini came to power , she put her work in his service, which considerably reduced her fame in the immediate post-war period.

Grazia Deledda died on August 15, 1936 in Rome at the age of 64.

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She was one of the most important authors of naturalism in Italian literature . In her works she describes the hard life of the Sardinians .

Deledda's books are fateful novels that often have women as central characters, who are ground up in conflicts over honor, belief and social prejudice.

The setting of her later works is Italy, but always with ties to her homeland. In 1926 she received the Nobel Prize for Literature . The Nobel Prize Committee awarded her the prize "for her works carried by idealism, which depict life on their native island with vividness and clarity and generally treat human problems with depth and warmth."

Awards and honors

Monument to Grazia Deledda in Rome

1926 Nobel Prize in Literature

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 Hubrich (1996)
Il tesoro (1897)
L'ospite (1897)
La giustizia (1899)
Le tentazioni (1899)
Il vecchio della montagna (1900)
Elias Portolu (1900); Elias Portolu, German E. Berling (1906), The Priest's Mask, revised translation by Christine Mrowietz and Susanne Eversmann (1989)
Dopo il divorzio (1902);
Cenere (1903); Asche, German E. Berling (1907)
I giuochi della vita (1905)
Nostalgia (1905); Heimweh, German CF by Vincenti (1912)
Il vecchio della montagna (novel); Der Alte vom Berg, German E. Müller-Röder (1906)
Amori moderni (1907)
L'ombra del passato (1907)
Il nonno (1908)
L'edera (1908); The ivy
Il nostro padrone (1910)
Sino al confine (1910); To the Limit (1919)
Nel Deserto (1911); In the desert (1913)
Chiaroscuro (novella, 1912)
Colombi e sparvieri (novel, 1912)
Canne al vento (1913); Reeds in the Wind , German Bruno Goetz (1951) and Reeds in the Wind, German Theodor Lücke (1930)
Le colpe altrui (1914)
Marianna Sirca (1915); Marianne Sirca, German F. Gasbara (1938)
Il fanciullo nascosto (1916)
L'incendio nell'uliveto (1918)
La madre (novel, 1920); The mother, German Frida Schanz (1922)
Naufraghi in Porto (1920); Shipwrecked people in the harbor, German Theodor Lücke (1929)
Cattive company (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 to Egypt, German Ernst Fall (1928)
Il sigillo d'amore (1926)
Annalena Bilsini (novel, 1927)
Murgronan (1927)
Il vecchio ei 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, 1937 posthumous); Cosima, the youth of a poet (1937)
Il cedro del Libano (1939 posthumous)
Anime oneste (1940 posthumous)

Film adaptations (selection)

1916: Cenere , based on the novel "Cenere"
1956: Verboten ( Proibito ) - Director: Mario Monicelli , based on the novel "The Mother"

literature

Irene Ferchl : It is enough to live the inner life. In: Charlotte Kerner: Not only Madame Curie - women who got the Nobel Prize. Beltz Verlag, Weinheim / Basel 1999, ISBN 3-407-80862-3 .
Gertraude Wilhelm (Ed.): The Literature Prize Winners - A Panorama of World Literature in the 20th Century. Econ Taschenbuch Verlag, Düsseldorf, 1983, ISBN 3-612-10017-3 .
Giulio Angioni : Grazia Deledda, l'antropologia positivistica e la diversità della Sardegna. In: Grazia Deledda nella cultura contemporanea. Nuoro 1992, pp. 299-306.
Giulio Angioni : Introduzione. In: Tradizioni popolari di Nuoro. Bibliotheca sarda , Nuoro, Ilisso 2010.
Emilio Cecchi (Ed.): Work edition. 4 vols. 1941–1955.
C. Müller-Röder: Grazia Deledda . In: Wander und Reisen 1 (1903), p. 704 (with 1 illustration).

Web links

Commons : Grazia Deledda - collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Grazia Deledda in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by and about Grazia Deledda in the German Digital Library
Newspaper article about Grazia Deledda in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Information from the Nobel Foundation on the award ceremony in 1926 to Grazia Deledda (English)
Grazia Deledda. In: FemBio. Women's biography research (with references and citations).
Works by Grazia Deledda : text, concordances, word lists and statistics
Works by Grazia Deledda in the Gutenberg-DE project

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Antonius Lux (ed.): Great women of world history. A thousand biographies in words and pictures . Sebastian Lux Verlag , Munich 1963, p. 127.
↑ encyclopedia team of the publisher FABrockhaus (ed.): Nobel Prizes . Chronicle of outstanding achievements. Mannheim 2001, ISBN 3-7653-0491-3 , pp. 264 .

personal data
SURNAME	Deledda, Grazia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Madesani, Grazia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian writer
DATE OF BIRTH	September 27, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nuoro ( Sardinia )
DATE OF DEATH	August 15, 1936
Place of death	Rome

[Lux-1] Antonius Lux (ed.): Great women of world history. A thousand biographies in words and pictures . Sebastian Lux Verlag , Munich 1963, p. 127.

[2] yclopedia team of the publisher FABrockhaus (ed.): Nobel Prizes . Chronicle of outstanding achievements. Mannheim 2001, ISBN 3-7653-0491-3 , pp. 264 .