1926 Nobel Prize in Literature

1926 Nobel Prize in Literature
Grazia Deledda
"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."
Date
  • November 1927 (announcement)
  • 10 December 1927
    (ceremony)
LocationStockholm, Sweden
Presented bySwedish Academy
First awarded1901
WebsiteOfficial website
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The 1926 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Italian author Grazia Deledda "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."[1] She was the second Italian and second female Nobel laureate in literature.[2]

  1. ^ The Nobel Prize in Literature 1926 nobelprize.org
  2. ^ Renzo Rendirome (18 December 1927). "Grazia Deledda Wins The Nobel Prize; The Italian Novelist Who Received the Award For Literature Is a Sardinian Woman". The New York Times.