Reed in the wind

Grazia Deledda: Italian writer born in 1871 in Sardinia island, then moved to live in Rome city at the end of 1899 and settled there until her death in 1936 after a life full of wonderful literary works crowned by winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1926. She is the second woman to receive this prize after Selma Lagerlöf Swedish. Her works were strongly connected to her original homeland Sardinia, characterized by simplicity of wisdom, strength of dramatic and tragic events, and the exceptional ability to describe the environment as well as the psychological states and physical features of her characters.