Luigi PirandelloPlaywright

Luigi Pirandello

1867 – 1936 · Italian

Biography

Luigi Pirandello was born in 1867 in Agrigento on Sicily and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934. With Six Characters in Search of an Author, he burst the boundaries of conventional theatre. Pirandello's work circles the question of identity, appearance, and being. He led his own theatre in Rome and influenced playwrights from Beckett to Stoppard. He died in 1936 in Rome.

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