Word: deledda
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...Italy's long history, Sardinia has produced hardly any notable figures. Until Segni reached a political eminence, the island's most famed citizen was Grazia Deledda, who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1926 for a novel, Flight into Egypt. Before she died in 1936 she had written 28 novels about life on the "forgotten island...
...same garbled footnotes the names of Spain's Jacinto Benavente & José Echegaray, and Italy's Grazia Deledda & Giosué Carducci were misspelled or wrongly accented. To TIME'S Theatre Department, rebuke for stupid errors...
Donna Grazia Deledda, Italian authoress of Sardinian tales, received the 1927 literature award. Medical diplomas for 1926 and 1927 went respectively to Dr. Johannes Fibiger, Danish cancer expert; and to Dr. Julius Wagner von Jauregg, Viennese professor of medicine. Finally the 1927 physics award was shared by two scholarly investigators of electrophysics: Professors Arthur Holly Compton (U.S.) and Charles T. R. Wilson (Britain...
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