Grazia Deledda: Quick Facts

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Born	September 27, 1871 • Nuoro • Italy
Died	August 15, 1936 (aged 64) • Rome • Italy
Awards And Honors	Nobel Prize (1926)
Notable Works	“Ashes” • “Cosima” • “Elias Portolu” • “Il vecchio della montagna” • “The Mother”
Movement / Style	verismo

Luigi Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello

Italian author

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Luigi Capuana

Italian writer

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling

British writer

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer

American author

Günter Grass

Günter Grass

German writer

Bunin

Ivan Bunin

Russian author

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Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

French author

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Doris Lessing

British writer

Selma Lagerlöf

Selma Lagerlöf

Swedish author

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Carl Spitteler

Swiss poet

Sillanpää

Frans Eemil Sillanpää

Finnish author

Gabriele D'Annunzio

Gabriele D’Annunzio

Italian writer and political leader

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Elsa Morante

Italian author

Moravia, 1969

Alberto Moravia

Italian writer

Verga

Giovanni Verga

Italian author

Naguib Mahfouz

Naguib Mahfouz

Egyptian writer

William Faulkner

William Faulkner

American author

Samuel Beckett, 1965

Samuel Beckett

Irish author

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John Steinbeck

American novelist

Albert Camus

Albert Camus

French author