"By chance I read your article in the Nuova Stampa and I thank you very much for the beautiful things you say about my art and the justice with which you see these poor Sardinian characters who arouse so much boredom in people who do not read mine books or reads them through the limits of his own mediocrity. I also have to thank you for your previous articles on the Italy you write, and I am happy to have the opportunity to tell you that I always read your things with keen interest. dma Thanks Deledda " Just 5 years later those Sardinian characters of hers weren't so boring to the jurors of the Nobel Prize for Literature, which was awarded to her, the first and only Italian woman, in 1926.