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Grazia Deledda

Italian writer
Grazia Maria Cosima Damiana Deledda 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... Wikipedia
Born: September 27, 1871, Nuoro, Italy
Died: August 15, 1936 (age 64 years), Rome, Italy
Spouse: Palmiro Madesani (m. 1900–1936)
Children: Sardus Madesani (1901–1938); Francesco Madesani (1904–1981)
Literary movement: Realism, Decadence