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“Deledda never looked back.”
“Her first novel, Fior di Sardegna (Flowers of Sardinia), appeared in 1892, at the age of twenty-one.”
“At the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm, Deledda simply accepted the award without the traditional lecture.”
“He declared it was long overdue for a “literary resurrection” of the once famous writer with the “emotional power” of her novels.”
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“Fellow Sardinian literary giants, like Antonio Gramsci, Emilio Lussu , Salvatore Satta and contemporary writer Michela Murgia encountered the same.”
“After his wife discovered a novel by Grazia Deledda on a lonely pile in the corner of a bookstore in New England, he searched for the rest of her works, only finding them in small and university presses.”
“Hailed in the American newspapers in 1902 as the “George Sand of Sardinia”—though, George Sand never won the Nobel—Deledda’s role in Sardinian literature occupied its own realm.”
“She went on to write more than sixty works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.”
“Lawrence in 1921, who spent less than a week in Sardinia.”
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“An American news story, however, noted that it was “strange” that she continued to write about Sardinia after she moved to Rome.”
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“A century later, the Nobel Laureate’s enduring legacy remains, an enigma for many perhaps, but a literary treasury deserving another read.”
“It is not rich in artistic treasures as is most of Italy.”
“Inviting her to his office in Rome, the dictator Benito Mussolini’s attempts to engage the author resulted in little attention; she simply asked him to release a friend of hers from Nuoro from prison.”
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“In writing about the life of Deledda in Nuoro, Sardinian literary critic and author Giulio Angioni referred to the conjoined role of history and memoir in her stories, her “sort of sardography.” That “sardography,” Sardinia seen through the stories of Sardinians, was the splendor awaiting discovery by outsiders like ourselves, in so many forms.”
“Like Cosima, Deledda preferred to let her writing stand on its own.”
“The New York Times started its review in grand style: Anyone wishing to travel to Sardinia “would find no better guidebook.” On its one hundredth anniversary in 2021, Sea and Sardinia remained the best known work on Sardinia in the English language—not Grazia Deledda.”