The ancient traditions of Sardinia feature heavily in this early collection. The stories collected in The Queen of Darkness, published in 1902 shortly after Deledda's marriage and move to Rome, reflect her transformation from little-known regional writer to an increasingly fêted and successful mainstream author. The two miniature psycho-dramas that open the collection are followed by stories of Sardinian life in the remote hills around her home town of Nuoro. The stark but beautiful countryside is a backdrop to the passions, misadventures and injustices which shape the lives of its rugged but all too human inhabitants. AUTHOR: Grazia Deledda was born in 1871 in Nuoro, Sardinia. The street has been renamed after her, via Grazia Deledda. She finished her formal education at 11. She published her first short story when she was 16 and her first novel, Stella D'Oriente in 1890 in a Sardinian newspaper when she was 19. Leaves Nuoro for the first time in 1899 and settles in Cagliari, the principal city of Sardinia where she meets the civil servant Palmiro Madesani who she marries in 1900 and they move to Rome. Grazia Deledda writes her best work between 1902-1920 and establishes an international reputation as a novelist. Nearly all of her work in this period is set in Sardinia. Publishes Elias Portolu in 1903. La Madre is published in 1920. She wins the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926. She dies in 1936 and is buried in the church of Madonna della Solitudine in Nuoro, near to where she was born.
The ancient traditions of Sardinia feature heavily in this early collection. The stories collected in The Queen of Darkness, published in 1902 shortly after Deledda's marriage and move to Rome, reflect her transformation from little-known regional writer to an increasingly fêted and successful mainstream author. The two miniature psycho-dramas that open the collection are followed by stories of Sardinian life in the remote hills around her home town of Nuoro. The stark but beautiful countryside is a backdrop to the passions, misadventures and injustices which shape the lives of its rugged but all too human inhabitants. AUTHOR: Grazia Deledda was born in 1871 in Nuoro, Sardinia. The street has been renamed after her, via Grazia Deledda. She finished her formal education at 11. She published her first short story when she was 16 and her first novel, Stella D'Oriente in 1890 in a Sardinian newspaper when she was 19. Leaves Nuoro for the first time in 1899 and settles in Cagliari, the principal city of Sardinia where she meets the civil servant Palmiro Madesani who she marries in 1900 and they move to Rome. Grazia Deledda writes her best work between 1902-1920 and establishes an international reputation as a novelist. Nearly all of her work in this period is set in Sardinia. Publishes Elias Portolu in 1903. La Madre is published in 1920. She wins the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926. She dies in 1936 and is buried in the church of Madonna della Solitudine in Nuoro, near to where she was born.
Grazia Deledda was born in 1871 in Nuoro, Sardinia. The street has
been renamed after her, via Grazia Deledda. She finished her formal
education at 11. She published her first short story when she was
16 and her first novel, Stella D'Oriente in 1890 in a Sardinian
newspaper when she was 19. Leaves Nuoro for the first time in 1899
and settles in Cagliari, the principal city of Sardinia where she
meets the civil servant Palmiro Madesani who she marries in 1900
and they move to Rome.
Grazia Deledda writes her best work between 1903-1920 and
establishes an international reputation Graham Anderson was born in
London. After reading French and Italian at Cambridge, he worked on
the books pages of City Limits and reviewed fiction for The
Independent and The Sunday Telegraph. As a translator, he has
developed versions of French plays, both classic and contemporary,
for the NT and the Gate Theatre, with performances both here and in
the USA. For Dedalus he has translated 5 books from French and 3
from Italian. He is currently translating The Celestial City by
Diego Marani and The Ridiculous Age by Margherita Giacobino for
Dedalus from Italian..
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