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1871 – 1936Grazia Deledda (1871-1936)Died 15 August 1936, aged 64Grazia Deledda was an Italian novelist from Sardinia who won the 1926 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was the first Italian woman to receive it. Her novels, including Reeds in the Wind, portray Sardinian rural life.