Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936)

Awarded the Prize “for his bold and ingenious revival of dramatic and scenic art.”

Italian novelist and dramatist. Pirandello was born in Agrigento, Sicily on June 28, 1867. In 1887, Pirandello entered the University of Rome and then transferred to the University of Bonn, Germany, receiving his doctoral degree in Roman philology in 1891. He started his career as a writer after returning to Rome. In 1898 he became a professor of Italian literature at a teacher’s college for women, and worked there for 24 years. In 1923, he founded the National Art Theatre of Rome. Pirandello died in Rome on December 10, 1936.
Major Works:
The Late Mattia Pascal (1904); Humour (1908); The Old and the Young (1913); Shoot! (1916); One, None, and a Hundred thousand (1926); Naked Masks (1918-1935); Right You Are (If You Think You Are) (1918); To Clothe the Naked (1923); Henry IV (1922); The Li