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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Symbol of the Nation | 5/18/1962 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 3, 1934 | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Nobel Fraternizers | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

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