Fo's last laugh - II.(playwright Dario Fo receives the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature)

From: The Nation | Date: November 3, 1997| Author: Spillance, Margaret | Copyright information

Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo, with his wife, was once the star of an Italian television variety show, but he quit the show in favor of touring with a radical theater company. Fo's playwrighting efforts have been both funny and irreverent, and he is often criticized by the Vatican.

For the first time, a former TV celebrity -- Dario Fo -- has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Almost thirty-five years ago, Fo and Franca Rame (his writing partner, acting partner and wife) we...

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