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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. Pirandello's tragic farces are often seen as forerunners of the Theatre of the Absurd. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Luigi Pirandello is the 291st most popular writer (down from 176th in 2019), the 427th most popular biography from Italy (down from 253rd in 2019) and the 25th 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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Among writers, Luigi Pirandello ranks 291 out of 7,302. Before him are Pierre Corneille, Ludovico Ariosto, Marcus Terentius Varro, Eckhart Tolle, Patrick Modiano, and Claude Simon. After him are Jacob Grimm, Bram Stoker, Walt Whitman, Alfonso X of Castile, Paul Auster, and Karen Blixen.

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Among people born in 1867, Luigi Pirandello ranks 9. Before him are Edgar de Wahl, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Józef Piłsudski, Margaret Brown, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Emily Greene Balch. After him are Louise, Princess Royal, Pierre Bonnard, Arturo Toscanini, John Galsworthy, Käthe Kollwitz, and Emil Nolde. Among people deceased in 1936, Luigi Pirandello ranks 10. Before him are Federico García Lorca, Rudyard Kipling, Lu Xun, Róbert Bárány, Grazia Deledda, and Henry Louis Le Chatelier. After him are Lev Kamenev, Oswald Spengler, Ferdinand Tönnies, Grigory Zinoviev, Fuad I of Egypt, and Charles Nicolle.

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Among people born in Italy, Luigi Pirandello ranks 427 out of 5,161. Before him are Lucius Caesar (-17), Claudio Ranieri (1951), Pope Pelagius II (520), Giuliano de' Medici (1453), Archytas (-428), and Giorgio Napolitano (1925). After him are Pope Anastasius IV (1073), Camillo Golgi (1843), Pope Urban I (222), Pope Lando (900), Giovanni Battista Re (1934), and Pope Zachary (679).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Luigi Pirandello ranks 25. Before him are Grazia Deledda (1871), Dario Fo (1926), Primo Levi (1919), Sallust (-86), Ludovico Ariosto (1474), and Marcus Terentius Varro (-116). After him are Alberto Moravia (1907), Christine de Pizan (1365), Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896), Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863), Theocritus (-315), and Lorenzo Valla (1407).

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