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Grazia Maria Cosima Damiana Deledda (Italian: [ˈɡrattsja deˈlɛdda]; Sardinian: Gràssia or Gràtzia Deledda [1] [2] [ˈɡɾa(t)si.a ðɛˈlɛɖːa]; 27 September 1871 – 15 August 1936) was an Italian writer who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926 [3] "for her idealistically inspired writings which with plastic clarity picture the life on her native island [i.e. Sardinia] and ...
Grazia Deledda wrote a large collection of novels, short stories, articles, stage plays, and poems. After the publication of her first novel Fior de Sardegna ("The Flower of Sardinia") in 1891, which was followed by Elias Portolu in 1900, Deledda gained widespread recognition and praise around the world. Due to the old traditions with deep ...
Grotta della Vipera, Cagliari (Viper grotto) The existence and understanding of direct statements of the proto-Sardinian (pre-punic and pre-Latin) language or languages [1] being hotly debated, the first written artifact from the island dates back to the Phoenician period with documents such as the Nora Stele or the trilingual inscription (Punic-Latin-Greek) from San Nicolò Gerrei. [2]
Vittoria Valmaggia (29 March 1944 in Oria – 31 October 2009 in Modena) was an Italian artist.Known also as Rina Conforti or Tappin, she was a ceramist, painter, stylist and the first Sardinian artist to produce dolls in traditional costumes combining multiple fabrics, gold and silver miniature jewellery, copper and ceramics.
Queens regnant in Sardinia (1 C, 6 P) Pages in category "Sardinian women" The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total.
The Days of the Old Woman owe their name to an ancient popular legend: once, when March was only 28 days old, an old woman, now anticipating the warmth of spring, said: "March, now you can no longer harm me, because today it is already April and the Sun is already up! "; so it was that March, offended, asked for three more days in April and ...
Michela Murgia (Italian: [miˈkɛːla ˈmurdʒa], Sardinian: [miˈkɛla ˈmuɾdʒa]; 3 June 1972 – 10 August 2023) was an Italian novelist, playwright, and radio personality. She was a winner of the Campiello Prize , the Mondello International Literary Prize and Dessì Prize [ it ] , and was an active feminist and left-wing voice in the ...
Depiction of the Sardus Pater Babai in a Roman coin (59 B.C.). Not much can be gathered from the classical literature about the origins of the Sardinian people. [17] The ethnonym "S(a)rd" may belong to the Pre-Indo-European (or Indo-European [18]) linguistic substratum, and whilst they might have derived from the Iberians, [19] [20] the accounts of the old authors differ greatly in this respect.