"The citizens of Nuoro, and those of the entire island, are rightly proud of this highly original writer." Thus said the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, in a greeting delivered to L'Unione Sarda on the occasion of his visit to Nuoro today, to celebrate the centenary of Grazia Deledda's Nobel Prize .

A Sardinian woman of her time, "she was able to speak to the world and draw universal values from her full immersion in the reality of Sardinia," the Head of State emphasized, "and from her being a woman at a time when it was difficult to overcome prejudice and break a condition of marginalization."

«Her “power as a writer, supported by a high ideal” – Mattarella writes again, quoting the Nobel Prize motivation – had as its horizon human emancipation , to which female courage and talent provide decisive resources ».
"Remembering Grazia Deledda, the first Italian woman to receive the Nobel Prize, we think of yesterday, but also of today. Because the voice of her novels lives on ," she concluded.

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