Iris Felter was born in Flensburg in 1944. After finishing her exams at the University of Copenhagen, she taught Danish and German for several years. She currently lives in France.

Grazia Deledda (27 September 1871 - 15 August 1936) was an Italian writer whose works won her the Nobel Prize for Literature for 1926. Born in Nuoro, Sardinia into a middle-class family, she attended elementary school and then was educated by a private tutor (a guest of one of her relatives) and moved on to study literature on her own. She first published some novels in the magazine L'ultima moda when it still published works in prose and poetry. Nell'azzurro, published by Trevisani in 1890, might be considered as her first work. She died in Rome at the age of 64.