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Biography
Dario Luigi Angelo Fo was an Italian playwright, actor, theatre director, stage designer, songwriter, political campaigner for the Italian left wing and the recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature. In his time he was "arguably the most widely performed contemporary playwright in world theatre". Much of his dramatic work depends on improvisation and comprises the recovery of "illegitimate" forms of theatre, such as those performed by giullari and, more famously, the ancient Italian style of commedia dell'arte.
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Awards & recognition
- honorary doctor of the Sorbonne Nouvelle University · 2005
- honorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel · 2001
- Nobel Prize in Literature · 1997
- Sonning Prize · 1981
- Cinearti La chioma di Berenice Prize
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- honorary citizen of Palermo
- Orden al Mérito Docente y Cultural Gabriela Mistral
