Grazia is the Italian form of Grace — from the Latin gratia (favor, grace, thanks). **Grazia Deledda (1871-1936)** — **Italian novelist from Sardinia who in 1926 became the first Italian woman, and only the second woman, to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (after Selma Lagerlöf in 1909) — "for her idealistically inspired writings which with plastic clarity picture the life on her native island and with depth and sympathy deal with human problems in general"**. **Began writing at 15, self-educated (girls in 1880s Sardinia were not formally educated past 4th grade)**. **\*Cosima\* (1937, autobiographical), *La madre* (1920), *Canne al vento* (1913) — among her major novels**. **A character on Sardinian banknotes; her birthplace in Nuoro is a national museum**. **Grazia (magazine)** — Italian weekly women's magazine founded 1938, now publishing in 22 countries**. **Grazia Maria Toesca** — Italian violinist. **Grazielle** — Brazilian variant. **A top-1000 baby name in Italy since records began**.
Subject of countless Sardinian and Italian literature studies.
Grazia reduces to nine — the number of Sardinian Nobel.