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.