Grazia Deledda

La Madre: The Woman and the Priest

Übersetzer: Steegman, M. G.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Dedalus European Classics
• Verlag: Dedalus
• Seitenzahl: 139
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 127mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 136g
• ISBN-13: 9781912868636
• ISBN-10: 1912868636
• Artikelnr.: 61938793

Autorenporträt

Grazia Deledda was born in 1871 in Nuoro, Sardinia. The street has been renamed after her, via Grazia Deledda. Finished her formal education at 11. She published her first short story when she was 16. Publishes her first novel, Stella D'Oriente in 1890 in a Sardinian newspaper. Leaves Nuoro for the first time in 1899 and settles in Cagliari, the principal city of Sardinia. Meets the civil servant Palmiro Madesani who she marries in 1900 and they move to Rome. She writes her best work between 1903-1920 and establishes an international reputation as a novelist. Nearly all of her work in this period is set in Sardinia. Publishes Elias Portolu in 1903. La Madre is published in 1920. She wins the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1927. Dies in 1936 and is buried in the church of Madonna della Solitudine in Nuoro, near to where she was born.