Luigi Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello (died 1936) was born on 28 June 1867 in Girgenti, present-day Agrigento, the son of Stefano Pirandello and Caterina Ricci Gramitto. After studies in Palermo and Rome, he obtained a doctorate from the University of Bonn in 1891, with a thesis on the dialect of his native town. Married in 1894, he was ruined in 1903 when the family sulphur mine flooded, and for many years taught at the Istituto Superiore di Magistero in Rome. From 1925 he directed the Teatro d'Arte in Rome and in 1934 he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died in Rome on 10 December 1936.

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• TheatreSix Characters in Search of an AuthorSei personaggi in cerca d'autoreLuigi Pirandello · 1925LiteraturePublic domain