Grazia Deledda (1871–1936) is the first Italian winner Nobel Prize for Literature (1926). In the European and Italian context in literature, Deledda manifests herself as a member of verism and late realism - from the beginning under the strong influence of French realists and naturalists (Flaubert, Zola) and the Italian authors Verga and D'Annunzio, but later her writing developed more in the direction of peculiar psychological realism.