CAGLIARI, 7 December 2021 – The program of the celebratory day entitled”Remembrance of the Nobel Prize Grazia Deledda – The Woman who put no limits on Women” scheduled for Friday 10 December in Cagliari was presented this morning at the headquarters of the Foundation of Sardinia in Cagliari. classroom of the Regional Council of Sardinia in the presence of the president of the Chamber of Deputies Roberto Fico.

150 years after the birth and 94 years after the awarding of the Nobel Prize, the president of the Regional Council of Sardinia Michele Pais wanted to remember the importance of”this daughter of Sardinia who represented our culture and our identity in an exemplary way, thank you to a style that rightly has had international recognition” The presence of the third position of the state, Pais recalled, demonstrates the great attention of all institutional levels towards Grazia Deledda. The hope, according to the president of the Assembly, is that schools will pay more attention to a writer who still does not study much today.

The artistic director of the rich program promoted by the institutional committee led by the Province of Nuoro, the journalist Anthony Muroni, emphasized the international character of the activities that will be promoted throughout 2022 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Sardinian writer, with events that will take place in Stockholm (Sweden), St. Petersburg (Russia) and United Arab Emirates (Dubai). After the days of Nuoro (with the presence of the President of the Region Christian Solinas) and Rome (conference in the Senate with the President Maria Elisabetta Casellati and the Minister of Cultural Heritage Dario Franceschini) that of Cagliari is the third appointment of an institutional nature. to celebrate the only Italian woman to have won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Prize awarded on 10 December 1927.

The day in the Regional Council will open with a musical introduction by Piero Marras: the singer-songwriter will perform a song “tributo a Grazia”. After the speeches by presidents Pais and Fico, the actor Giovanni Carroni will present a reading from the novel “Canne al vento”. Following the reports by Costantino Tidu (Administrator of the Province of Nuoro) and Andrea Soddu (Mayor of Nuoro). This will be followed by speeches by the writer Neria De Giovanni (“Grazia e il Nobel”), by the collective of Sardinian writers Chiara Miscali, Valeria Usala, Valeria Pecora e Cristina Caboni, a reading by the young Sardinian writer Matteo Porcu and the performance by the journalist Giacomo Mameli (“Deledda nella lezione di Carlo Bo”). The President of the Region Christian Solinas will close the proceedings.

During the press conference, the administrator of the Province of Nuoro Costantino Tidu also spoke and illustrated the importance of the project is “150 years of Grazia. A woman of our times”, the most important in the history of Sardinian autonomy dedicated to the Sardinian writer whose message – for the strength and style of her poetics – is characterized by great modernity. Tidu recalled how the writer was able to overcome the distrust and hostility of the environment in which she lived, starting with the one in Nuoro, breaking cultural schemes in which women were always given a lesser role than men. The topicality of Grazia Deledda’s thought is that she has never silent on the female condition of the time, invoking effective and non-formal parity. A ransom that is also a message for the Sardinian people and their demands.

The meeting with the press closed with the screening of the celebratory spot that will soon be broadcast by regional and national television stations. The spot was created by the creative Giorgio Pitzianti: “The narrating voice guides us in the heart of Grazia and recites an excerpt from the text that she herself wrote and proclaimed on the occasion of the Nobel prize. The choice of subtitles in Sardinian, wants to symbolize how behind every literary work of Deledda there was her own identity and her own roots, which she never gave up but rather have enhanced her personality and creativity. The commercial brings – concluded Pitzianti – a valid message for contemporary society: No woman must give up being herself in her totality, even in the face of the most ignoble social declassifications that remain only in ignorance”.