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Luigi Pirandello

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Playwright

The Resume

    (June 28, 1867-December 10, 1936)
    Born in Agrigento, Sicily, Italy
    Best known for 'Six Characters in Search of an Author' (1921)
    Also wrote 'The Pleasure of Honesty' (1917), 'Right You Are If You Think So' (1917), 'Henry IV' (1922) and 'As You Desire Me' (1930)
    Won the Nobel Prize for Literature (1934)

Why he might be annoying:

    He was expelled from the University of Rome after offending a professor of Latin.
    He was engaged to his cousin. (They never married.)
    The premier of 'Six Characters in Search of an Author' was greeted with shouts of 'Madhouse!' from the audience, and he had to escape through a side exit.
    He publicly supported the Italian invasion of Ethiopia, even donating his Nobel Prize medal to a government drive to collect gold jewelry to help finance the war.

Why he might not be annoying:

    During World War I, both his sons were prisoners of war.
    Despite his support for the invasion of Ethiopia, he often clashed with Italy's fascist government, once calling Mussolini 'a top hat, and an empty top hat that by itself cannot stand upright.'
    George Bernard Shaw said he had 'never come across a play so original' as 'Six Characters in Search of an Author.'
    He influenced the absurdist works of Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco.

Credit: C. Fishel


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 12 Votes: 58.33% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 5 Votes: 80.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 14 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 17 Votes: 52.94% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 9 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 11 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 16 Votes: 68.75% Annoying