Luigi Pirandello was an Italian writer born in 1867 in Sicily to an upper-class family. He received his education in Palermo and Rome, studying literature. Pirandello wrote hundreds of short stories and novels throughout his life, many dealing with themes of reality and everyday life. Some of his most famous works include the novels The Late Mattia Pascal and One, No one and One Hundred Thousand, as well as the plays Six Characters in Search of an Author and Henry IV. Pirandello won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934 for innovating modern theatre through his plays.

1. Luigi Pirandello:
La vita…

2.  Family
 Education
 Marriage
 Selected works
 Quotes
 Memory
 Award

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. 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. 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. 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married a shy, withdrawn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. 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. 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. 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.

14.  http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/la
ureates/1934/pirandello-bio.html
 http://www.gradesaver.com/author/luigi-pirandello/
 http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/l/luigi_
pirandello.html

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