Biography of Grazia Deledda

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27 September 1871
August 15, 1936
Grazia Deledda Nuoro 1871 was born in September the 27 by Giovanni Antonio and Francesca Cambosu, the fifth of seven children. The family belongs to the wealthy bourgeoisie: the father who holds a diploma of legal procurator, is dedicated to the trade of coal and is a Catholic intransigent. Seventeen, send to the magazine "latest fashion" in Rome the first written, and request publication: is "blood sardo", a story in which the protagonist kills the man she is in love and who do not match, but aspires to a wedding with her sister. The text falls under the genre of popular literature and an appendix in the footsteps of Ponson du Terrail. Uncertain are the news of an even earlier work, dated from some critics to 1884. Between 1888 and 1890, collaborates intensely with Roman magazines, sardines and milanesi, uncertain between prose and poetry. The work that marks more properly the beginning writing career is "Fior di Sardegna" (1892), which gets some good review.
The writings are steeped in a late romantic climate, expressing in conventional terms and without psychological thickness a love lived as inescapable fatality. It is also, for her, an era of romantic dreams, rather than actual relationships: men who share his own artistic aspirations seem to approach her, but mostly a concrete project is conceived by her alone. This is Stanislo missing, noble Sardinian resident in Rome, by Giuseppe m. Laur, musician who devotes a lovesong, Trieste journalist Julius Caesars and elementary school teacher John Andrew Pirodda, "folklorist gallurese". Solicited by Angelo De Gubernatis, takes care of Ethnology: collaboration to "Italian folk Traditions" magazine, which runs from December 1893 until may 1895, the best results are the eleven episodes of "folklore of Nuoro in Sardinia. In 1895 at Cogliati in Milan, is on "honest souls". The following year released "King Creole" that meets the favour of Luigi Capuana.
During a stay in Cagliari, in 1899, he met Palmiro Madesani, functionary of the Ministry of Finance on a mission. Simultaneously appears in episodes on "new anthology" the novel "the old man of the mountain". The 11 January the following year, he married Palmiro and in April moved to Rome: is realized in this way his dreams of escape from the province of Sardinia. Although lead secluded life in the capital will be in contact with some of the greatest interpreters of contemporary Italian culture. Between August and dicemdre of 1900, always about "Nuova Antologia", exit "Elias Portolu".
On 3 December was born the eldest son, Saad; in announcing the De Gubernatis (will later another son, Franz). The day of Grazia Deledda is divided between the family and writing, that devotes several hours every afternoon. In 1904 he published his book "Ashes", which will be made into a movie starring Eleonora Duse (1916). The two novels of 1910, considered generally the result of a tenacious will to write rather than of authentic inspiration, however, are notable for being the first, "our master", a clear text on social issues and the second, "on the border", in some ways autobiographical. The rapid pace of almost two texts per year appear the tales of "Chiaroscuro" (1912), the novels "Doves and hawks" (1912), Canne al vento (1913), "the sins of others" (1914), "Marianna Sirca (1915), the collection" the child "(1916)," fire in the Grove "(1917) and" the mother "(1919).
This is the happiest season. The novels all have a first publication in journals (from time to time "," illustration "Nuova Antologia italiana", "reading" and "time"), then prints for types of Treves. In 1912 comes "the secret of a lonely man", story of a hermit who chose the isolation to hide their past. "The God of the living," published in 1922, is the story of a heritage from which trtaspare dicarattere immanent religiosity. On September 10, 1926 Grazia Deledda receives the Nobel Prize for literature: is the second author in Italy, preceded only by Carducci twenty years earlier; It remains so far the only Italian writer rewarded. In "Annalena Bilsini" you feel a certain weariness, affecting mainly criticism following the recent accolades. The last novel "The Church of solitude" is from 1936. The protagonist is, as the author, ill with cancer. A little later Grazia Deledda goes out, is on 15 August. Leaves an unfinished work, which will be published next year by Antonio Baldini with the title "Cosima, almost grace."
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