Remembering Grazia Deledda, the Sardinian Nobel Prize-Winner We Should All Be Reading

By Jeff BiggersSeptember 25, 2026

“Cross the sea,” a young Grazia Deledda wrote in a poem to Americans in 1893, “and tell everyone that the island of Sardinia is still waiting to be discovered and known.” On the 100th anniversary of her Nobel Prize for Literature, the powerful legacy

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