Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello (28 June 1867 – 10 Dec 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer whose greatest contributions were his plays. He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his almost magical power to turn psyc
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Luigi Pirandello (28 June 1867 – 10 Dec 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer whose greatest contributions were his plays. He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his almost magical power to turn psychological analysis into good theatre". He was an Italian nationalist and supported Fascism in a moderate way, giving his Nobel Prize medal to the Fascist government to be melted down for the Abyssinia Campaign. 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.
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