Born: 7 March 1856, Greece
Died: 25 July 1927
Country most active: Italy
Also known as: NA
The following is excerpted from Infinite Women creator Allison Tyra’s book Uncredited: Women’s Overlooked, Misattributed, and Stolen Work.
Being anti-feminist didn’t help Greek-Italian journalist, novelist, and short story writer Matilde Serao, however. She was favoured to win the Nobel for Literature in 1926 but lost out to Grazia Deledda because of her politics—she failed to align herself and her newspaper with Italy’s Fascist regime of the time, and so they blocked her nomination. She had only the year before publicly signed the 1925 “Manifesto of anti-fascist intellectuals.”
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