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Luigi Pirandello

1867 - 1936

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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. He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his bold and ingenious revival of dramatic and scenic art". Pirandello's works include novels, hundreds of short stories, and about 40 plays, some of which are written in Sicilian. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Luigi Pirandello has received more than 1,046,684 page views. His biography is available in 99 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 95 in 2019). Luigi Pirandello is the 176th most popular writer (up from 222nd in 2019), the 253rd most popular biography from Italy (up from 289th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Italian Writer.

Luigi Pirandello was an Italian dramatist and novelist. He is most famous for his plays Six Characters in Search of an Author and The Man With the Flower in His Mouth.

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Notable Works

Novelle per un anno
Bibliography, Italian Short stories, Biography
1900
Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore
Drama, Characters and characteristics in literature, Tipos literarios
1900
Maschere nude
Accessible book
1918
Uno, nessuno e centomila
1926
Tutti i romanzi
1939
Il fu Mattia Pascal
English: The novel is about Mattia Pascal, who leaves home after one of the usual quarrels with his wife Romilda, and arrives in Monaco, where he wins thousands of pounds. So much money and a news story that he reads -announcing his death ( but it is the corpse of a desperate man who killed himself by jumping into a well)- suggests him to simulate its death and to start a new life. Mattia renamed Adriano Meis went to live in Rome. And... Italian: Il romanzo narra la storia di Mattia Pascal, che si allontana di casa dopo una delle consuete liti con la moglie Romilda, e, arrivato a Montecarlo, vince decine di migliaia di lire. Il possesso di una grossa somma e la lettura di una notizia di cronaca che annuncia la sua morte (una bufala; in realtà si tratta del cadavere di un disperato che si è ucciso gettandosi nel pozzo di casa Pascal), lo inducono a simulare la propria morte e a tentare di cominciare una nuova vita. Mattia ribattezzato Adriano Meis va a vivere a Roma. E...
1904

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Luigi Pirandello ranks 176 out of 7,302. Before him are Orhan Pamuk, Karel Čapek, Pliny the Younger, François-René de Chateaubriand, Wisława Szymborska, and Taras Shevchenko. After him are Svetlana Alexievich, J. D. Salinger, Osamu Dazai, André Breton, Nizami Ganjavi, and John Steinbeck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Luigi Pirandello ranks 4. Before him are Marie Curie, Józef Piłsudski, and Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim. After him are Frank Lloyd Wright, Emily Greene Balch, Edgar de Wahl, Arturo Toscanini, Emil Nolde, Mary of Teck, Käthe Kollwitz, and John Galsworthy. Among people deceased in 1936, Luigi Pirandello ranks 6. Before him are Ivan Pavlov, Maxim Gorky, Federico García Lorca, Rudyard Kipling, and George V. After him are Antoine Meillet, Lu Xun, Oswald Spengler, Alexander Glazunov, Lev Kamenev, and Ferdinand Tönnies.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Luigi Pirandello ranks 253 out of 5,161. Before him are Pope Leo I (390), Cesare Lombroso (1835), Pope John XV (1000), Diodorus Siculus (-90), Cimabue (1240), and Pope John XIX (975). After him are Padre Pio (1887), Pope Adrian I (700), Pope Clement XI (1649), Pope Gregory X (1210), Marie de' Medici (1575), and Lucius Verus (130).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Luigi Pirandello ranks 16. Before him are Guillaume Apollinaire (1880), Plautus (-254), Cato the Elder (-243), Carlo Collodi (1826), Catullus (-84), and Pliny the Younger (61). After him are Juvenal (50), Carlo Goldoni (1707), Torquato Tasso (1544), Dario Fo (1926), Sallust (-86), and Primo Levi (1919).

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