Luigi Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello was born in 1867 near Agrigento, in Sicily, the son of a sulfur-mine owner. He studied at the universities of Palermo and Rome and then at Bonn, in Germany, where he earned a doctorate with a thesis on the dialect of his home region. He settled in Rome and began writing poems, short stories and novels. In 1894 he married Antonietta Portulano. In 1903 a flood destroyed the family's sulfur mine, leaving them in financial trouble, and his wife suffered a mental illness that grew worse over the years. Pirandello taught at a teachers' college for women and wrote constantly. His novel The Late Mattia Pascal (1904), about a man who is mistakenly declared dead and starts a new life, brought him fame. He then turned to the theater. Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921), in which characters abandoned by their author interrupt a rehearsal, and Henry IV (1922) question the line between reality and illusion. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934 and died in Rome in 1936.

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