By Skyler Gomez | On January 7, 2020 | Updated November 21, 2024 | Comments (2)
Grazia Maria Cosima Damiana Deledda (September 28, 1871 – August 15, 1936), more commonly known as Grazia Deledda, was an Italian writer.
She is remembered for being the first Italian woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature (1926) and just the second woman to receive this award (Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf was the first, in 1909).
She was praised “for her idealistically inspired writings which with plastic clarity picture the life on her native island and with depth and sympathy deal with human problems in general.”
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By Skyler Gomez | On February 21, 2019 | Updated January 28, 2024 | Comments (6)
Here is a tribute to the women who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in chronological order, starting from the most recent. Note, we need to update this list to include recent recipients: Annie Emaux (2022), Louise Glück (2020), and Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk-Fingas (2018).
The Nobel Prize in Literature has arguably become the most prestigious literary prize, awarded annually since 1901. It is given to an author from any country who, in the words of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, created “in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction.”
The Nobel Prize has been awarded to some 894 men (as of 2023), and around 60 women in all fields combined since its inception in 1895. Seventeen of the women achieved this honor in literature. Above right, Doris Lessing receiving her award in 2007. Read More→
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