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Luigi Pirandello was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer, born on the 28th of June 1867 and most noted for his plays. He wrote novels, hundreds of short stories, and about 40 plays, some of which are written in Sicilian.
Luigi Pirandello won the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for his bold and ingenious revival of dramatic and scenic art. He had been nominated by Guglielmo Marconi, and he was the last Italian playwright to win until Dario Fo won on the 9th of October 1997.
Luigi Pirandello's Sei Personaggi in Cerca d'Autore, Six Characters in Search of an Author, was staged in 1921 and is among his best-known works. Its first performance in Rome was a failure where the audience shouted Asylum, Asylum, but it later triumphed in Milan and was performed in London and New York.
Luigi Pirandello was born in an area called Caos, near the poor suburb of Porto Empedocle, outside Girgenti in Sicily, now the town of Agrigento. His family was upper class and tied to the sulphur industry.
Luigi Pirandello wrote to Benito Mussolini in 1924 asking to join the National Fascist Party and called himself a Fascist because I am Italian. He later clashed with fascist leaders, tore up his party card in 1927, and was kept under surveillance by the secret police OVRA, while also calling himself apolitical.
Luigi Pirandello died alone in his home at Via Bosio in Rome on the 10th of December 1936. He refused a State funeral offered by Mussolini, and his cremated remains were buried in Sicily only in 1947.