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Luigi Pirandello
Girgenti, Sicily, Italy [now Agrigento, Sicily, Italy]
Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer, best known for his many acclaimed stage plays and several successful novels such as…
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Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer, best known for his many acclaimed stage plays and several successful novels such as The Late Mattia Pascal (1904) and One, No One and One Hundred Thousand (1926). He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his almost magical power to turn psychological analysis into good theatre." Pirandello's works include 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. His first major play, Right You Are (if You Think You Are) (1917), explored the relativity of truth, a lifelong subject for Pirandello. Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921) contrasted art and life; it was followed by the tragedy Henry IV (1922). His other plays include Each in His Own Way (1924) and Tonight We Improvise (1930). He established the Teatro d’Arte in Rome and toured the world with his company (1925–27). Nearly all of Pirandello's plays were translated into English by the actor Robert Rietti.
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2025
Six personnages en quête d'auteur
Movie Theatre Play
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2024
Fantasmi
Movie Story
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2023
Každý má svou pravdu
Movie Screenplay
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2023
A Respectable Woman
Movie Short Story
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2022
Six Characters
Movie Theatre Play
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2022
Leonora addio
Movie Novel
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2021
The Man With the Flower in His Mouth
Movie Novel
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2015
The Choice
Movie Novel
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2013
Six personnages en quête d'auteur
Movie Theatre Play
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2012
In cerca d'autore. Studio sui Sei personaggi
Movie Writer
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1999
The Nanny
Movie Writer
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1998
You Laugh
Movie Story
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1994
Tri poviedky so Zdenou Gruberovou
Movie Book
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1993
The Man with the Flower in His Mouth
Movie Writer
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1992
Six Characters in Search of An Author
Movie Theatre Play
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1986
The Humiliated
Movie Short Story
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1985
Suicider
Movie Writer
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1985
The 2 Lives of Mattia Pascal
Movie Novel
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1984
Kaos
Movie Novel
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1984
Henry IV
Movie Novel
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1981
Il turno
Movie Novel
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1981
Il berretto a sonagli
Movie Writer
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1979
Henry IV
Movie Writer
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1977
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Movie Writer
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1976
Six Characters in Search of An Author
Movie Writer
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1976
O Gesto, a Festa, a Mensagem - Dois Mil Anos de Teatro
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1975
The Rules of the Game
Movie Writer
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1975
The Light of the Opposite House
Movie Novel
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1974
The Voyage
Movie Story
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1972
Sweet Lemon
Movie Writer
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1972
Monday's Theater
TV show Writer
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1971
Kvevri
Movie Novel
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1970
Il berretto a sonagli
Movie Writers' Production
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1970
Alta comedia
TV show Novel
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1968
Jindřich IV.
Movie Theatre Play
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1967
Enrico IV
Movie Author
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1965
Człowiek z kwiatem w ustach
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1965
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Movie Theatre Play
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1965
Henry IV
Movie Writer
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1964
Theatre 625
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