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Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer most noted for 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. Pirandello's tragic farces are often seen as forerunners…
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culture · Sicilian dramatist, novelist, poet, short story writer (1867–1936) · playwright · writer · poet · novelist · screenwriter · director · also Luigi Pirandello, Luidzhi Pirandello, Luwiji Pirandélo, Pirandello
Born 28 June 1867 · Died 10 December 1936 · Q1403
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Não sou um autor de farsas, mas um autor de tragédias. E a vida não é uma farsa, é uma tragédia. O aspecto trágico da vida está precisamente nessa lei a que o homem é forçado a obedecer, a lei que o obriga a ser um. Cada qual pode ser um, nenhum, cem mil, mas a escolha é um imperativo necessário.
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — for his bold and ingenious revival of dramatic and scenic art.
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1947· 1 entry
1936· 2 entries
Died 1936-12-10.
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“Não sou um autor de farsas, mas um autor de tragédias. E a vida não é uma farsa, é uma tragédia. O aspecto trágico da vida está precisamente nessa lei a que o homem é forçado a obedecer, a lei que o obriga a ser um. Cada qual pode ser um, nenhum, cem mil, mas a escolha é um imperativo necessário.”
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1934· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — for his bold and ingenious revival of dramatic and scenic art.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (1934).
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1929· 1 entry
And in 1934 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature after he had been nominated by Guglielmo Marconi, member of the Royal Academy of Italy
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1927· 1 entry
Tore his fascist membership card to pieces in front of the startled secretary-general of the Fascist Party
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1925· 1 entry
Pirandello, with the help of Mussolini, assumed the artistic direction and ownership of the Teatro d'Arte di Roma, founded by the Gruppo degli Undici
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1924· 1 entry
Wrote a letter to Benito Mussolini asking him to be accepted as a member of the National Fascist Party
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1922· 1 entry
In Milan, Enrico IV was performed for the first time and was acclaimed universally as a success
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1921· 1 entry
The Compagnia di Dario Niccodemi staged, at the Valle di Roma, the play, Sei Personaggi in Cerca d'Autore, Six Characters in Search of an Author
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1919· 1 entry
Pirandello had his wife placed in an asylum
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1917· 1 entry
The collection of novellas E domani Lunedì (And Tomorrow, Monday
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1916· 1 entry
The actor Angelo Musco successfully recited the three-act comedy that the writer had extracted from the novella Pensaci, Giacomino
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1913· 1 entry
Pirandello sent a copy of it to his parents for their fiftieth wedding anniversary along with a dedication which said that "their names, Stefano and Caterina, live heroically
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1911· 1 entry
While the publication of novellas and short stories continued, Pirandello finished his fourth novel, Suo Marito, republished posthumously (1941), and completely revised in the first four chapters, with the title Giustino
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1909· 2 entries
The first part of I Vecchi e I Giovani was published in episodes
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Pirandello began his collaboration with the prestigious journal Corriere della Sera in which he published the novellas Mondo di Carta (World of Paper), La Giara, and, in 1910, Non è una cosa seria and Pensaci, Giacomino
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1908· 1 entry
Published a volume of essays entitled Arte e Scienza and the important essay L'Umorismo, in which he initiated the legendary debate with Benedetto Croce that would continue with increasing bitterness and venom on both
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1905· 2 entries
Took his wife to stay in Chianciano Terme together with their children where they stayed for two months in what the writer described as "the village nestled on the windy hill just opposite the Collegiata"
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This novel paved the way to the notoriety and fame which allowed Pirandello to publish with the more important firms such as Treves, with whom he published, in 1906, another collection of novellas Erma Bifronte
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1903· 1 entry
The year 1903 was fundamental to the life of Pirandello.
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1902· 1 entry
Published the first series of Beffe della Morte e della Vita and his second novel, Il Turno
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1900· 1 entry
Published in Il Marzocco some of the most celebrated of his novellas (Lumie di Sicilia, La Paura del Sonno
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1898· 1 entry
With Italo Falbo and Ugo Fleres, he founded the weekly Ariel, in which he published the one-act play L'Epilogo (later changed to La Morsa) and some novellas (La Scelta, Se
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1897· 1 entry
Accepted an offer to teach Italian at the Istituto Superiore di Magistero di Roma, and in the magazine Il Marzocco he published several more pages of the Dialoghi
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1895· 1 entry
The first part of the Dialoghi tra Il Gran Me e Il Piccolo Me
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1894· 2 entries
Choosing (on his father's suggestion) a shy, withdrawn girl of a good family of Agrigentine origin educated by the nuns of San Vincenzo: Maria Antonietta Portulano (1871–1959)
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Published his first collection of short stories, Amori senza Amore
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1893· 1 entry
Wrote his first important work, Marta Ajala, which was published in 1901 as l'Esclusa
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1887· 1 entry
Having definitively chosen the Department of Letters, he moved to Rome in order to continue his studies
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1886· 1 entry
During a vacation from school, Luigi went to visit the sulphur mines of Porto Empedocle and started working with his father
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1880· 1 entry
The Pirandello family moved to Palermo
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1867· 1 entry
Born 1867-06-28.
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