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Word: deledda (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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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 »

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