Grazia Deledda was born in 1871 in Nuoro, Sardinia. The street has
been renamed after her, via Grazia Deledda. She finished her formal
education at 11. She published her first short story when she was
16 and her first novel, Stella D'Oriente in 1890 in a Sardinian
newspaper when she was 19. Leaves Nuoro for the first time in 1899
and settles in Cagliari, the principal city of Sardinia where she
meets the civil servant Palmiro Madesani who she marries in 1900
and they move to Rome.
Grazia Deledda writes her best work between 1903-1920 and
establishes an international reputation Graham Anderson was born in
London. After reading French and Italian at Cambridge, he worked on
the books pages of City Limits and reviewed fiction for The
Independent and The Sunday Telegraph. As a translator, he has
developed versions of French plays, both classic and contemporary,
for the NT and the Gate Theatre, with performances both here and in
the USA. For Dedalus he has translated 5 books from French and 3
from Italian. He is currently translating The Celestial City by
Diego Marani and The Ridiculous Age by Margherita Giacobino for
Dedalus from Italian..
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