Luigi Pirandello

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Born	June 28, 1867 • Agrigento • Italy
Died	December 10, 1936 (aged 69) • Rome • Italy
Awards And Honors	Nobel Prize (1934)
Notable Works	“Enrico IV” • “One, None, and a Hundred Thousand” • “Right You Are—If You Think You Are” • “Six Characters in Search of an Author” • “The Late Mattia Pascal” • “The Old and The Young”

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