Luigi Pirandello
Italian dramatist, novelist, short story writer, and poet, Nobel Prize for Literature laureate (1867-1936)
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Luigi Pirandello was an Italian writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who worked across multiple forms including drama, novels, short stories, and poetry, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in recognition of his literary achievements. He matters because his innovative works, particularly his plays, had a significant influence on modern theater and literature, establishing him as a major figure in literary history.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 28 June 1867
- Died
- 10 December 1936
- Works
- 1559
Top works
- Wybór dramatów
- Terzetti di Luigi Pirandello
- אנריקו
- Imbecille, Lumie di Sicilia, Cecè, La patente
- Enrico IV
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Writing · Girgenti, Sicily, Italy [now Agrigento, Sicily, Italy]
Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer, best known for his many acclaimed stage plays and several successful novels such as The Late Mattia Pascal (1904) and One, No One and One Hundred Thousand (1926). He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his almost magical power to turn psychological analysis into good theatre."…
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Luigi Pirandello (/pɪrənˈdɛloʊ/; Italian: [luˈiːdʒi piranˈdɛllo]; 28 June 1867 – 10 December 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer most noted for his plays. He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his bold and ingenious revival of dramatic and scenic art". 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 of the Theatre of the Absurd.
Pirandello reading his work "Six characters in search of an author" (1926)