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Which Italian writer won the 1926 Nobel Prize in Literature?
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Portrait of Italian poet Dante Alighieri.
The Italian writer who won the 1926 Nobel Prize in Literature was Grazia Deledda. A novelist influenced by the verismo (realism) school, she frequently drew upon the landscape and folklore of her native Sardinia to explore complex moral themes in her work.12