After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper.
About Grazia Deledda
Grazia Maria Cosima Damiana Deleddawas an Italian writer who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926 “for her idealistically inspired writings which with plastic clarity picture the life on her native island [i.e. Sardinia] and with depth and sympathy deal with human problems in general”.
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According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time.
Italian novelist (1871-1936)
After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper.
Italian novelist (1871-1936)
I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume.
Italian novelist (1871-1936)
We later moved to Rome, where I am presently living.
Italian novelist (1871-1936)