biography
pronunciation:
[foh]
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| male
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| (1926– )
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| biography:
| Playwright, designer, and actor, born in San Giano, N Italy. After working in radio and TV he founded, along with his wife, Franca Rame, a radical theatre company in 1959. His populist plays use the comic traditions of farce and slapstick, as well as surreal effects; best known are Morte accidentale di un anarchico (1970, Accidental Death of an Anarchist), Non si paga, non si paga (1974, Can't Pay, Won't Pay), and Female Parts (1981), one-woman plays written with his wife. Later works include Il Papa e la strega (1989, The Pope and the Witch) and Johan Padan a la descoverta de la Americhe (1992, Johan Padan and the Discovery of America). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1997. |
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