3. Luigi Pirandello , an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet and
short story writer, was born on the 28th of June 1867 in
Girgenti (now Agrigento) on the island of Sicily.
4. Family
Pirandello was born into an upper-
class family. His father was a sulfur
dealer. His mother was also of a
well-to-do background, descending
from a family of the bourgeois
professional class of Agrigento.
Pirandello received his elementary
education at home.
In 1880, the Pirandello family
moved to Palermo, where Luigi
completed his high school education.
5. Education
His father expected his son to take up his trade, but Luigi
excelled in his academics and was allowed
to pursue a literary schooling. He entered the
University of Rome in 1887,later transferring
into Bonn University where he completed a
doctoral thesis on his native Sicilian dialect.
6. MarriagE
Following his father's
suggestion, in 1894 he
married a shy, withdrawn
girl of a good family
Antonietta Portulano. His
wife suffered from severe
mental illness, which gave
him a deeper insight into
the working of the mind.
But despite of this fact
they had two sons
(Stefano and Fausto) and a
daughter (Lietta).
7. His was inspired by his Own life. Throughout his
life he wrote more than 350 stories, most of which
contained themes ground in reality and everyday life
8. SElEctEd workS
Novels
1902: Il turno (The Turn)
1904: Il fu Mattia Pascal (The
Late Mattia Pascal)
1908: L'esclusa (The Excluded
Woman)
1911: Suo marito (Her Husband)
1913: I vecchi e i giovani (The
Old and the Young)
1925: Quaderni di Serafino
Gubbio (Serafino Gubbio's
Journals)
1926: Uno, nessuno e centomila
(One, No one and One Hundred
Thousand)
Plays
1917: Così è (se vi pare) (So It Is (If
You Think So))
1917: Il piacere dell'onestà (The
Pleasure of Honesty)
1918: Il giuoco delle parti (The Rules
of the Game)
1921: Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore
(Six Characters In Search of an
Author)
1922: Enrico IV (Henry IV)
1922: L'imbecille (The Imbecile)
1922: Vestire gli ignudi (Clothing The
Naked)
1923: L'uomo dal fiore in bocca (The
Man with the Flower In His Mouth)
1923: La vita che ti diedi (The Life I
Gave You)
1924: Ciascuno a suo modo (Each In
His Own Way
9. Most of his plays are
staged in different
countries all over the
world even
nowadays.
12. MeMory
He is still remembered not only
in Sicilia, where he is
considered as a national hero.
You can see a bust of Luigi
Pirandello in the public park in
Buenos Aires.
You can also find monuments
in the Giardino in Palermo, and
in front of the Luigi Pirandello's
House Museum.
13. AwArd
Pirandello was nominated Academic of Italy in 1929
Moreover, he has ,perhaps, the highest award in the
world literature and drama: the Nobel Prize.
He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for
his "bold and brilliant renovation of the drama and the
stage". What proves how talented this man was.
