Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello was born on 28 June 1867, in the Cavusu suburb of Girgenti (modern-day Agrigento). Pirandello is considered one of the greatest Italian authors and playwrights of the past century. Thanks to his theatrical success, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934, “for his bold and ingenious revival of dramatic and scenic art.” In his works, Pirandello states that if the world is a cage, theatre has the duty to offer humankind a way to escape through a moment of rebellion and chaos that will destroy every convention, every barrier between reality and fiction, author and character, audience and actors.