Born: 28-Jun-1867
Birthplace: Agrigento, Sicily, Italy
Died: 10-Dec-1936
Location of death: Rome, Italy
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Pirandello Birthplace, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Playwright, Novelist

Nationality: Italy
Executive summary: Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore

Father: (sulfur mine owner)
Wife: Antonietta Portulano (m. 1894, sanitarium 1919, d. 1959)
Mistress: Marta Abba (actress, speculative relationship)

    University: University of Rome (attended 1887-88)
    University: PhD Philology, University of Bonn (1891)

    Nobel Prize for Literature 1934

Author of books:
Mal giocondo (1889, poetry)
Pasqua di Gea (1891, poetry)
Amori senza amore (1894, short stories)
L'Esclusa (1901, novel)
Il turno (1902, novel)
Beffe della morte e della vita (1902–03, short stories)
Il fu Mattia Pascal (1904, novel)
L'Umorismo (1908, essay)
I vecchi e i giovani (1913, novel)
La trappola (1915, short stories)
Quaderni di Serafino Gubbio, Operatore (1915, novel)
E domani, luned... (1917, short stories)
Uno, nessuno e centomila (1925–26, novel)

Wrote plays:
L'Epilogo (1898)
Così è (se vi pare) (1917)
Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore (1921)
Enrico IV (1922)
Ciascuno a suo modo (1924)
The Man With the Flower in His Mouth (1930, television play)

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