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Born March 24, 1926 • Italy
Died October 13, 2016 (aged 90) • Milan • Italy
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1997)
Notable Works “Mistero Buffo”

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Norwegian author
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American actor and director
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Tyler Perry
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Ben Elton
British actor, stand-up comedian, screenwriter and dramatist
Athol Fugard (center)
Athol Fugard
South African dramatist, actor, and director
Pietro Aretino
Italian author
Ettore Petrolini
Italian actor and author
Parini, Giuseppe
Giuseppe Parini
Italian author
Gino Cervi
Italian actor
Giovambattista Andreini
Italian actor and author
T.S. Eliot, 1955
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
Eugene O'Neill
Eugene O’Neill
American dramatist
Samuel Beckett, 1965
Samuel Beckett
Irish author
William Butler Yeats, c. 1915.
William Butler Yeats
Irish author and poet
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
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Wole Soyinka, 2015
Wole Soyinka
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Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
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