Giovanni Carmelo Verga was an Italian realist writer, best known for his depictions of life in his native Sicily, especially the short story "Cavalleria rusticana" and the novel I Malavoglia. novelist, short-story writer, poet, and essayist, was born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England, on September 11, 1885. Though better known as a novelist, Lawrence's first-published works (in 1909) were poems, and his work has since had a significant influence on many poets on both sides of the Atlantic.