Luigi Pirandello
Italian dramatist, novelist, short story writer, and poet, Nobel Prize for Literature laureate (1867-1936)
Luigi Pirandello (Agrigento 28 June 1867 – Rome 10 December 1936) was an Italian playwright, novelist, and short story writer. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934, for his "bold and brilliant renovation of the drama and the stage". Pirandello's works include novels, hundreds of short stories, and about 40 plays, some of which are written in Sicilian. Pirandello's tragic farces are often seen as forerunners for Theatre of the Absurd.
Luigi Pirandello | |
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 Luigi Pirandello | |
| Born | June 28, 1867 Agrigento, Italy |
| Died | December 10, 1936 (aged 69) Rome, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Notable awards | Nobel Prize in Literature (1934) |
Works
change- Una boccata d'aria (A Breath of Air)
- L'Esclusa (The Excluded Woman)
- Il Turno (The Turn)
- Il Fu Mattia Pascal (The Late Mattia Pascal)
- Suo Marito (Her Husband)
- I Vecchi e I Giovani (The Old and the Young)
- Quaderni di Serafino Gubbio (Serafino Gubbio's Journals)
- Uno, Nessuno e Centomila (One, No one and One Hundred Thousand)
- Sei Personaggi in Cerca d'Autore (Six Characters in Search of an Author)
- Ciascuno a Suo Modo (Each In His Own Way)
- Questa Sera Si Recita a Soggetto (Tonight We Improvise)
- Enrico IV (Henry IV)
- L'Uomo dal Fiore in Bocca (The Man With The Flower In His Mouth)
- La Vita che ti Diedi (The Life I Gave You)
- Il Gioco delle Parti (The Rules of the Game)
- Diana e La Tuda (Diana and Tuda)
- Il Piacere dell'Onestà (The Pleasure Of Honesty)
- L'Imbecille (The Imbecile)
- L'Uomo, La Bestia e La Virtù (The Man, The Beast and The Virtue)
- Vestire gli Ignudi (Clothing The Naked)
- Così è (Se Vi Pare) (So It Is (If You Think So))