Luigi Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello in 1932
Born	(1867-06-28)28 June 1867 Girgenti, Sicily, Kingdom of Italy
Died	10 December 1936(1936-12-10) (aged 69) Rome, Lazio, Kingdom of Italy
Occupation	Writer
Alma mater	University of Bonn
Genre	Drama, novel, poetry
Subject	Insanity, humour
Literary movement	Italian modernism
Years active	1893–1933
Notable works	The Late Mattia Pascal (1904) Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921) Henry IV (1922) One, No One and One Hundred Thousand (1926)
Notable awards	Nobel Prize in Literature 1934
Spouse	Maria Antonietta Portulano ​ ​ (m. 1894)​ (1871–1959)
Children	Stefano (1895–1972) Rosalia (1897–1971) Fausto (1899–1975)
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Luigi Pirandello (Italian: [luˈiːdʒi piranˈdɛllo]; 28 June 1867 – 10 December 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer whose greatest contributions were his plays.^[1] He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his bold and ingenious revival of dramatic and scenic art".^[2] 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.