Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello (; 28 June 1867 – 10 December 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, at one point giving his Nobel Prize medal to the Fascist government to be melted down as part of the 1935 ("Gold to the Fatherland") campaign during the
Second Italo-Ethiopian War. 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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